John William Waterhouse Rough
Speaking with Art John William Waterhouse’s elegant works did not reflect the culture through poets who appreciated his works, along with the Brotherhood and other people, but he himself was influenced by others more than anyone could ever imagine. Waterhouse was not the most famous person in his time, but he knew how to get people’s attention speaking with art. He grew up in a wealthy household and followed his parents footsteps. As a colleague, he was involved in many groups, the one he was not in, had an influential impact on him, The Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood. He grew up into what we follow on his biography, as a well-known but not popular artist who grew into a well-developed and successful man. Of course, as he grew up he began painting more works. Others who were not as fortunate, looked up to him as an influential bookmark to their success in the art industry. Also, Waterhouse had influential and motivational role models. The Pre- Raphaelite Brotherhood was not your normal “college group”, this group valued a lot more than their school work and grades, it was art. “The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood conveyed more complex ideas in their pictures and expressed themselves through a lot of literature” (Cruttenden 53). Also, the “representation of medieval love became a popular subject in the years after the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhoods existence” (John William Waterhouse 1849-1917 2). The paintings and ideas of the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood can be seen as a series of prototypes and points of contrast for what would become a multiplicity of interrelated movements in these and half of the 19th century including the Aesthetic movement and the classical movement. In 1848, three young Royal Academy students- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millias and William Holman Hunt- founded this brotherhood. The brotherhood exhibits a reaction against the industrialization of Europe and thus the Pre-Raphaelite movement grows out of the early 19th century.