"The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt..." [link]
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All of the DeviantArt members will agree that this site is about art, but not everybody knows how always was and always will be a great battle between opinions in what is art or what isn't. It happens that most artist are considered such after hundred of years, and then we are able to see their works everywhere: in calendars, supermarket prints, diaries, keychains. We are constantly influenced by this imagery, as the artists themselves where at the time they created their masterpieces, like the Pre-raphaelites.

I decided to create a few articles about art influence, and their group is what I consider a perfect start for the project.
Influence and inspiration is not copying, it's something we don't even notice in our lives, we just put it in our memories even if we don't look carefully at this images.

Pre-Raphaelite Deviant Art

The Brotherhood's early doctrines were expressed in four declarations:

1. To have genuine ideas to express;
2. To study Nature attentively, so as to know how to express them;
3. To sympathise with what is direct and serious and heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of what is conventional and self-parading and learned by rote;
4. And, most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues.

See if it maches...





It was hard to choose, but my criteria was more about the influence felt than the subject or media, hope you enjoyed the artworks.
I also welcome anyone who would like to help me search artworks.
The following themes will be:
Romanticism [link]
Baroque [link]
Art Nouveau [link]

"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
Oscar Wilde