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TICKETS AVAILABLEDATE: Sunday 10 December 2023
WELCOME APÉRITIF: 17.00 - 17.45 LECTURE, Q&A SESSION: 17.45 - 19.30 intermission from 18.30 - 18.45 LECTURER: Nancy ter Horst LANGUAGE: English LIMIT: 30 attendees maximum ENTRANCE COST: € 20 per person / € 15 DARA students PARKING: Free * Reservations must be made in advance. Tickets are not sold at the door. |
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Lecture by Nancy ter Horst | 10 December 2023
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), founded in 1848, was a group of artists and poets that agitated against the dominant standards for art of their time. These young English artists, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais among others, had all studied at the Royal Academy and had left it disillusioned. They wanted to get rid of the aesthetic rules of the academy that they saw as mechanistic, and which forced all art into the same straightjacket. The PRB were looking for a kind of realism for nature, detail and colour. Inspiration was found in the art of the Middle Ages, in which they saw a combination of creativity and spirituality that, according to them, had been lost with renaissance artist Raphael - hence the name of the group.
But no one can simply turn back the clock and step back into the Middle Ages. The Industrial Revolution had just changed society, automated the production process, and put an end to craftsmanship. Looking at those factories and their mass-manufactured products, it’s not surprising that the beautifully varnished, jewel-like altarpieces of the 15th century filled the PRB painters with nostalgia. Influenced by the philosophy of Romanticism as they were, they longed for nature, emotion and the past.
What were the goals of the PRB, and how were their ideas and ideals translated into their art? How did they relate to the dominant art elite, and why were they so shocked by the art of the PRB? Were the PRB the precursors of Art Nouveau, and how so? What was the role of women in this boys club? What has Raphael done wrong according to them? How can we understand their works better and still learn from the PRB, whilst putting them into their time? We will talk about all this and more, looking at the best known and lesser known artworks of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
The studio doors open at 17:00 for a welcome apéritif, in which drinks (wine and non-alcoholic beverages), light food and snacks are served. The lecture begins at 17.45, with a brief intermission from 18.30 - 18.45, and ends with a question and answer session. Parking is free and is available directly in front of the studio building.
The lecture is limited to a maximum of 30 attendees. Reservations may be made online here. Tickets are not sold at the door.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), founded in 1848, was a group of artists and poets that agitated against the dominant standards for art of their time. These young English artists, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais among others, had all studied at the Royal Academy and had left it disillusioned. They wanted to get rid of the aesthetic rules of the academy that they saw as mechanistic, and which forced all art into the same straightjacket. The PRB were looking for a kind of realism for nature, detail and colour. Inspiration was found in the art of the Middle Ages, in which they saw a combination of creativity and spirituality that, according to them, had been lost with renaissance artist Raphael - hence the name of the group.
But no one can simply turn back the clock and step back into the Middle Ages. The Industrial Revolution had just changed society, automated the production process, and put an end to craftsmanship. Looking at those factories and their mass-manufactured products, it’s not surprising that the beautifully varnished, jewel-like altarpieces of the 15th century filled the PRB painters with nostalgia. Influenced by the philosophy of Romanticism as they were, they longed for nature, emotion and the past.
What were the goals of the PRB, and how were their ideas and ideals translated into their art? How did they relate to the dominant art elite, and why were they so shocked by the art of the PRB? Were the PRB the precursors of Art Nouveau, and how so? What was the role of women in this boys club? What has Raphael done wrong according to them? How can we understand their works better and still learn from the PRB, whilst putting them into their time? We will talk about all this and more, looking at the best known and lesser known artworks of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
The studio doors open at 17:00 for a welcome apéritif, in which drinks (wine and non-alcoholic beverages), light food and snacks are served. The lecture begins at 17.45, with a brief intermission from 18.30 - 18.45, and ends with a question and answer session. Parking is free and is available directly in front of the studio building.
The lecture is limited to a maximum of 30 attendees. Reservations may be made online here. Tickets are not sold at the door.
Need to cancel your reservation? Cancellations may be made by emailing us at: [email protected]
Cancellations made before Friday 8 December are fully refunded.
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