#preraphaelite

[vvyryj]

i have an entire SERIES of preraphaelite-like well rendered fanarts specifically inspired by dance fever + it's tour era, which kinda says something about how cool the album is

dance fever is just such a great fucking album man. "you say that rock and roll is dead, but is that just because it has not been resurrected in your image?" is still one of my favourite lyrics of all time. 'king' flummoxes me every time i listen to it. it's got myth vs realism. deification and iconoclasm. art as communal experience, as identity, as the lines between individual healing, catharsis, and destruction. #depression, self-sabotage, nostalgia. madonna-whore complex mockery. "it's good to be alive, crying into cereal at midnight" "when i decided to wage holy war, it looked very much like staring at my bedroom floor" it's got humour. "what a thing to admit, that when someone looks at me with real love, i don't like it very much. kinda makes me feel like i'm being crushed." !! there's a whole song where the chorus is just the word daffodil over and over again and it's a banger.

also there was a real gap in the market for an album based around a 14th century european mass hysterical dancing epidemic so i'm glad that got filled.

[preraphaelist]

The Pre-Raphaelite Pothole, Terrace Road, St. Leonards-on-sea; part of the Great Art, Great Potholes series by SinkySnap. (x)

[enchantedbook]

'Love' by John Everett Millais, c. 1850.

[a-little-bit-pre-raphaelite]

detail Augusta Jones, Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898)

[srednod]

James Jacques Joseph Tissot, Triumph of the Will - The Challenge (detail), ca. 1877

[marejadilla]

Terra Chapman, "Butterfly Dance", 2023, watercolor & gouache. American painter based in Malta, Italy..

[i-love-this-art]

John Everett Millais / "Isabella" / 1849 / Walker Art Gallery

[spacepacks]

john william waterhouse' paintings headers || like or reblog if you save

[thesymbolsofparadise]

© The Lady of Shalott, circa 1875, by John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893)

[the-most-sublime-fool]

Elizabeth Siddal & Jane Morris

Pre-Raphaelite models as artists in their own right

Photographs of Elizabeth Siddal (left) and Jane Morris (right)

Elizabeth Siddal and Jane Morris are mostly known as artists' models for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, representing the ideal of feminine beauty for the movement.

Elizabeth Siddal famously modelled for John Everett Millais's Ophelia (1852)

Jane Morris in paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Proserpine (1874) + The Daydream (1880)

But both women were also artists themselves.

Elizabeth Siddal

In the paintings and drawings she modelled for, Siddal is never depicted as looking directly at the viewer. Instead, she is languid and lovely, gazing off dreamily into the distance or closing her eyes, like in the examples below.

Elizabeth Siddal in paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Regina Cordium (1860) + Beata Beatrix (1870)

Her self-portrait, however, presents a fascinating contrast.

Elizabeth Siddal's self-portrait (1854)

Her expression is stony and her gaze is direct. She knows you're looking, and she's looking right back. It reminds me of the Agnès Varda quote,

“The first feminist gesture is to say: OK, they're looking at me. But I'm looking at them.”

Here are some more of Siddal's own paintings below.

Her style is distinct and striking.

Lady Clare (1857), The Quest of the Holy Grail (1855), Clerk Saunders (1857), Holy Family (1856)

Jane Morris

Jane Morris was not a painter herself, but an embroiderer, bookbinder, and calligrapher.

She came from a working-class background and only received an artistic education as an adult, after she married William Morris.

Unfortunately, not much of her work survives, or can be definitively attributed to her, but the two floral patterns below reveal her skill with the needle.

[psycheophiuchus]

"Dans un Jardin de Roses" - 2021.

Photographer & Model : Psyché Ophiuchus

Jewelry : @aurumina

Robe : @grimildemalatesta & Psyché O.

The magnificent @villaephrussi de Rothschild, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat.

[preraphaelist]

She bound her green sleeve on my helm Sweet pledge of love's sweet meed Warm was the bared arm round my neck As well she bade me speed; And her kiss clings still between my lips Heart's heat and strength at need.

My Lady Greensleeves by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1863; the back of the canvas is inscribed with the above fragment.

[ungoliantschilde]

pencil drawings by Barry Windsor-Smith

[a-little-bit-pre-raphaelite]

details from The Queen of Hearts, 1896, John Byam Liston Shaw

[writing-for-life]

The Day Dream—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

[elephantlovemedleys]

nicole kidman + art (love's shadow by frederick sandys, 1867. lettice knollys by george gower, 1585. in the grass by arthur hughes, 1865.)