ENG 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: The Blessed Damozel, Paiter People, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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Four pillars: to have genuine ideas to express, to study nature attentively, to sympathize with what is heartfelt in previous art (to not be conventional, to not be boring, to produce thoroughly good art and statues. Brotherhood did not last long, but they had lasting effects on art which were rather significant. Catholics have a sense of a place between heaven and hell (purgatory: focus on women, and the same female models (used pretty much two faces through all his pieces) Another was a woman who he was obsessed with. She was a redhead: got good reviews before the brotherhood, a lot of his poetry was buried with a lover, the blessed damozel. Supposedly written in response to edgar allen poes the raven. Mary"s gift white rose, she is part of mary"s friendship circle. Things symbolic to divinity in juxtaposition with things of earth. Lilies are earthly, stars are heavenly, corn is earthly.
