Pre Raphaelite brotherhood

This extraordinary brotherhood was founded by Sir John Everett Millais in 1848 at his parents home in London, with only three starting the group and then eventually expanding to seven, they changed the face of art and how its perceived. the group was that of poets,artists and critics. There paintings ooze romance and symbolism, which is captivating and dream like. they explored social problems and used literature especially thoses dealing with love and death to create paintings.
although at the beginning of the brotherhood they were almost frowned upon by the late 1800s they were making heavy influence to the art world and symbolism.

Everett's first painting was that of "christ in the house of his parents" this beautiful painting was heavily criticised and deemed 'blasphemy' with "Mary looking like an alcoholic".
 Again the symbolism to me in this painting is very evident, the wound on jesus hand and blood dripping onto his foot relates to the crucifixion, the dove in the picture is about peace and the triangle on the wall above him refers to the holy Trinity.

http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/pre-raphaelite
viewed 26/01/15
christ in the house of his parents
painted by Sir John Everett Millais 1849-50

Another famous painting is that influenced by shakespeare play Hamlet. Its of Ophelia picking flowers and falling into the stream but over come with grief after hamlet murders her father she drowns. this stunning peace was created in two separate stages the second being he Millais feels a bath tub at his parents house and uses a girl to flout in it. The symbolism is shown in the flowers that surround here, daisy's as innocence and poppy's as a sign of death. 

https://frankzumbach.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/john-everett-millais-ophelia-elizabeth-siddal/
Ophelia
1851-52

Iv really enjoyed looking into this fabulous movement and there heavy impact into the art world, and by far this is my favourite painting.

“It doesn’t matter how beautifully a thing is painted, it is no good if it isn’t right – it’s got to come out… What does it matter how you do it? Paint it with a shovel if you can’t get your effect any other way.”

Sir John Everett Millais

http://chasingart.com/2012/08/26/sir-john-everett-millais-the-controversy-begins/