Abstract art refers to works which do not represent reality in realistic visual forms. Instead, abstract compositions use lines, shapes, gestural strokes, colors or symbols to represent ideas. Abstract art has existed as long as human’s have been alive to create it. In fact, geometric abstract symbols have been found in ancient art. In abstract …
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The Awakening Conscience is a didactic genre scene by Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt. Completed in 1853, the oil on canvas measures 76 x 56 cm. It was initially commissioned by Thomas Fairbairn. Fairbairn, the owner of an engineering company in Manchester, paid 350 guineas for the work, but was unsatisfied with the face of the …
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Sir John Everett Millais’s Christ in the House of His Parents, also referred to as The Carpenter’s Shop, was painted between 1849 and 1850. The oil on canvas measures 86.4 cm × 139.7 cm and is housed in the Tate Britain in London, England. The museum purchased the work in 1921. It is framed in an ornamental gold …
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The painting featured here is titled Ophelia and might be the singularly most recognizable Pre-Raphaelite Painting. This oil on canvas was painted by the British artist Sir John Everett Millais between 1851 and 1852. The canvas measures 30 inches tall by 44 inches in width. What is Depicted in the Artwork? Like many of his …
The Lady of Shalott is an oil on canvas painting completed by artist John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) in 1888. The canvas measures 72 x 91 inches and depicts a scene from Lord Alfred Tennyson’s (1809-1892) poem of the same name. The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy Exhibition in 1888. Later, the painting was …
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was an art movement founded in 1848 by a group of English artists, poets, critics, and playwrights. The artistic movement sought to emulate early Italian art and was opposed to the classical compositions that Raphael made popular. The founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), Dante Gabriel Rosetti (1828-1882), …
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