tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post963316313249051799..comments2024-02-11T03:50:53.613-05:00Comments on Counterlight's Peculiars: The PreRaphaelitesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-1057831484966876732008-07-31T09:58:00.000-04:002008-07-31T09:58:00.000-04:00I suppose I should have clarified that to say the ...I suppose I should have clarified that to say the last Romantic movement of the 19th century.<BR/>Romanticism never really dies. it just goes underground for a period, and then emerges from the shadows as Van Gogh or Mark Rothko or Anselm Kieffer.<BR/><BR/>I must admit that I consider myself to be BOTH a romantic and a classicist; not as opposite as people usually think. It takes a lot of passion to be a great classicist, just as it takes a lot of intellectual detachment to be a really successful romantic.<BR/>The humanistic premises that underly both are inimical to the fanatics who dominate the discussions these days, and alien to the nihilistic market society we all live in.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-29044389934414728992008-07-31T09:37:00.000-04:002008-07-31T09:37:00.000-04:00I'm certainly not offended, Mimi, but I still love...I'm certainly not offended, Mimi, but I still love their work - though certainly not all of it.<BR/><BR/>When Doug says they were the last Roomantic movement, I have to disagree. The sturm und drang of the Expresionists is as romantic as it gets. One look, for me at least, at a Franz Klein screams Romanticism to me.<BR/><BR/>We should also not forget the influence of the Nazarenes was passed on to the Pre-Raphaelites by William Dyce.Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06167056789275283692noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-18661267254590773772008-07-30T19:35:00.000-04:002008-07-30T19:35:00.000-04:00Grandmere, No argument from me. Now that I've got...Grandmere, <BR/><BR/>No argument from me. Now that I've gotten them out of the way, I can go on to some more interesting artists.Counterlighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14345956180434795401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2343439372519556254.post-21440658106784111682008-07-30T18:54:00.000-04:002008-07-30T18:54:00.000-04:00Counterlight, I can't stand PreRaphaelite painting...Counterlight, I can't stand PreRaphaelite paintings. Some of them are so saccharine as to make me ill. I turn away quickly from them in the museums. And dammit not a one of them does painting that comes within a tiny decimal place of a Botticelli, or a Fra Angelico, or a Memling. Actually, they make me angry. Well, if I offend anyone, you can delete my comment.June Butlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01723016934182800437noreply@blogger.com