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Today 's Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Movement
In art the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement is much like disco, its not dead until the people are done enjoying it. The group founded by John Millais, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Holman Hunt first started in 1848 in Millais 's parents house. Not one of its founders could have dreamed the sensational art they were about to unveil to the world. The group itself was mainly comprised of poets and painters who wanted to bring back the freshness and conviction of early Italian paintings before the works of Raphael Sanzio da Urbino which artist of the time considered primitive. The four major doctrines of the group resemble what you would expect to find in a utopian debating committee. The doctrines while being simple also help you easily see their main goal with their work and their group. The Pre-Raphaelites also took their love of art to …show more content…
The members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood thought that sometimes looking back is another way to move forward. People see paintings like music; there are particular pieces from an artist that make you want to see or hear more. This holds true even if the art in question is old, it can hold just as much value as something new. In the piece Isabella By John Millais there is another form of rebellion in which he has three people on the left side and eight people on the right. This might not seem big but it is, people of the time didn 't like asymmetrical or an unbalanced painting. The main argument was stemmed from the offset of the figures in the foreground, giving the viewer imbalanced sides. The Pre-Raphaelites thought that things like this were nonsense and trivial nature and life do not happen as they are depicted in most