Random Loveliness - The Art Of The Pre-Raphaelites

I Felt the need to post some 'Random Loveliness' today in the midst of my blogs on Tasmania.

I'm taking a nostalgic trip back to my twenties....you know in the last century!

As a younger much more idealistic woman I adored the beauty of the 19th Century English Pre-Raphaelite painters.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) was founded in 1849 by William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), D.G. Rossetti, John Everett Millais (1829-1896), William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Thomas Woolner, and F. G. Stephens to revitalize the arts. (Even though William and Michael's sister, Christina, never was an official member of the Brotherhood, she was a crucial member of the inner circle, indeed she modeled for many of the paintings.

Although the young would-be art revolutionaries never published a manifesto, their works and memoirs show that having read Ruskin's praise of the artist as prophet, they hoped to create an art suitable for the modern age. (The Victorian Web).

I came across a couple of old prints stored in my garage and was once again blown away by the loveliness of the paintings.

Even as I march towards my 'half Century', it's nice to know that these artworks still have the power to move me.