Pre-Raphaelite Dreamscape

Pre-Raphaelite Doctrines

• 1. Have genuine ideas to express• 2. Study Nature attentively, so as to know how

to express it• 3. Sympathize with what is direct and serious

and heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of what is conventional

• 4. Produce thoroughly good pictures and statues

Pre-Raphaelites

• Reform art by rejecting convention, by rejecting perfection…be subjective instead of objective (still should draw based on observation, but should also manipulate the art to show what you want it to show).

• They felt that Raphael was a bad influence in the world of Art because he was too mechanical, hence the name Pre-Raphaelites

Assignment

• Pre-Raphaelites often depicted scenes that seemed soft, dreamlike, and elegant.

• What do you know about dreams?• Do things always make sense in dreams?

Assignment

• For this project, use poetry as inspiration for the dreamscape, because the Pre-Raphaelite movement was at a time when some of the world’s most famous poetry was being written (i.e. Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickenson, etc.)

• Select your favorite poem, and identify the imagery within it; and you will use this imagery to design your dreamscape.

Assignment

• These will be collaged into a montage that should look like a coherent dreamscape.

• You must achieve a background, middle ground and foreground.

• You must include at least 1 line of text from your poem.

• Tips for good composition:– Nothing smack in the middle– Use small, medium, AND large images– Crop images in 1/3’s, not in half

Beata Beatrix; Dante Gabriel Rossetti; c. 1863; Pre-Raphaelite; Oil on Canvas

Destiny; John William Waterhouse; 1900; Modern Pre-Raphaelite; Oil on Canvas

Ophelia; John Everett Millais; 1852; Pre-Raphaelite; Oil on Canvas

The Nightmare; Henry Fuseli; 1781; Romanticism; Oil on Canvas

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters; Francisco Goya; c. 1798; Romanticism; Etching and Aquatint

Not Pre-Raphaelite, but this is a good example of a dreamscape!

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