{"id":5955,"date":"2015-11-14T19:20:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T19:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2015-11-14T19:22:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T19:22:45","slug":"prbday-visions-of-hope-in-pre-raphaelite-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verityholloway.com\/?p=5955","title":{"rendered":"#PRBday: Visions of hope in Pre-Raphaelite art."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ScreenBaudelaire. I posted this quote on Twitter this morning in response to last night’s\u00a0terrible violence in Paris.<\/p>\n

In times of darkness, art reminds us that humans have always been capable of wonderful things, regardless of war, oppression, or sickness. Sometimes more so for the suffering, if you look at the poems and paintings of the early twentieth century. Art, like heroism, shows its colours more brightly\u00a0when the world is\u00a0bleak.<\/p>\n

And art can bring people together in strange, synchronistic\u00a0ways. Now there’s the Internet, people who might never encounter each other in the flesh\u00a0can link up and enthuse together – something unimaginable just a few decades ago.<\/p>\n

The 15th of November is #PRBday<\/a>, when Pre-Raphaelite devotees raise the group’s profile, shine a light on\u00a0their legacy, and welcome new friends\u00a0into the online circle. I’ve met so many fabulous people<\/a> thanks to these mid-Victorian “boys who couldn’t draw”, as Rossetti called himself and the other PR Brothers.<\/p>\n

I was going to write something else today, but none of it seems appropriate. I think what I instinctively want to do is share some hopeful Pre-Raphaelite paintings.<\/p>\n

\"Dante<\/a>

Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Joan of Arc<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Edward<\/a>

Edward Burne-Jones – Love Among The Ruins<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Ford<\/a>

Ford Madox Brown – The Last of England<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Frank<\/a>

Frank Cadogan Cowper – St Agnes in Prison Receiving from Heaven the \u2018Shining White Garment\u2019<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Dante<\/a>

Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Found<\/p><\/div>\n

\"William<\/a>

William Holman Hunt – The Light of The World<\/p><\/div>\n

\"demorgan-fieldoftheslain\"<\/a>

Evelyn De Morgan – Field of The Slain<\/p><\/div>\n

We’ve got art, and we can make more. We’ve got friends, and we can make more of those, too. There’s inspiration in that. There always has been. And where there’s inspiration, life prevails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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