The Pre-Raphaelites

All Episodes 2009
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  • 2009-06-15T23:00:00Z
  • 30m
  • 1h 30m (3 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Documentary
Toward the middle of the 19th century, a small group of young artists in England reacted vigorously against what they felt was "the frivolous art of the day": this reaction became known as the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Their ambition was to bring English art (such as it was) back to a greater "truth to nature." They deeply admired the simplicities of the early 15th century, and they felt this admiration made them a brotherhood. Bursting into the spotlight in 1848 and shocking their peers with a new kind of radical art. This is a three-part series examining the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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3 episodes

Series Premiere

2009-06-15T23:00:00Z

1x01 The Brotherhood

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Series Premiere

1x01 The Brotherhood

  • 2009-06-15T23:00:00Z — 30m

The opening part explores the origins of the Brotherhood and their initial achievements, and looks at some of their key early works, the hostile criticism they faced and the centuries of academic dogma their paintings overturned.

2009-06-22T23:00:00Z

1x02 Landscape Painting

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1x02 Landscape Painting

  • 2009-06-22T23:00:00Z — 30m

This second part looks at how they continued by transforming landscape painting with a microscopic examination of the natural world, some ten years before the French Impressionists.

2009-06-29T23:00:00Z

1x03 Mass Production

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1x03 Mass Production

  • 2009-06-29T23:00:00Z — 30m

This final part looks at how the Pre-Raphaelites had outgrown the avant-garde in their later years and began to embrace fame and fortune with art designed to please the masses. In so doing, they attained riches and celebrity and became the forefathers of the commercial modern artist.

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