Tasks

1. The Pre-Raphaelite Era

2. Let’s look at the roles photography and Pre-Raphaelite art played in
changing concepts of vision and truth in representation.
Photography's ability to quickly translate the material world into an
image challenged painters to find alternate versions of realism.
Photographers, in turn, looked to Pre-Raphaelite subject matter
and visual strategies in order to legitimize photography's status as a
fine art.
Both wrestled with the question of how to observe and represent
the natural world and the human face and figure.
Pre-Raphaelite artists painted with such precision that some critics
accused them of copying photographs.

3. • Who were the Pre-Raphaelites?
• Why were they called The Pre-Raphaelites? What did they believe?
• Who were the main artists?
• What kind of themes/things did they paint
• Who was Julia Cameron and why is she important when considering the
Pre-Raphaelites?
• Provide a detailed reading of the two images in the next slide. What are
the similarities and differences in content and medium used?
• Go to:
https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2010/preraphaelite/slideshow/index.sht
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• And find more images that represent similar themes using painting and
photography as mediums. Write a short comparison.

4. Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Beatrix Julia Cameron: Ophelia