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Entries in Pre-Raphaelites (6)

Friday
Feb282014

George Frederic Watts: English Symbolist

DateFriday, February 28, 2014 at 12:07PM

George Frederic Watts - Dweller in the Innermost, 1885-86, oil on canvas, Tate Gallery at LondonEnglish artist George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with both the Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist movements. Although begun primarily as a literary movement, Symbolism in art was related to the Gothic component of Romanticism--and put forth the idea that “truth” could only be expressed indirectly. The goal of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was to reject the mechanistic approaches they believed began with the later works of Raphael. Watts’s art is a fascinating synthesis of these two movements.

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