Date of Award
8-8-2017
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Art
First Advisor
Floyd Martin
Abstract
When they came together in 1848, the Pre-Raphaelites sought to revolutionize art in England. They tried for a “truth to nature” in their aesthetic rather than the idealized pictures seen in the Royal Academy. These artists found inspiration in the poetry of John Keats and Alfred, Lord Tennyson, taking ideas found in their poems and turning them into visual stories that also addressed social issues in Victorian England. These subjects often appealed to a number of artists working in their style who took characteristics they liked from fellow artists and expanded on them, creating an ever-evolving foundation of images from which to draw. The Pre-Raphaelites worked in vivid colors and highly naturalistic figures, taking the poetry of Keats and Tennyson, and infusing it with their own styles to form modern compositions filled with the highly-detailed imagery for which they are now known.
Recommended Citation
Lee, Jeannie M., "Something Old, Something New: An Examination of Visual Interpretations of John Keats’ Isabella, or the Pot of Basil and Eve of St. Agnes, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Mariana and Lady of Shalott by Pre-Raphaelite Artists" (2017). Theses and Dissertations. 750.
https://research.ualr.edu/etd/750
