Abstract
Pre-Raphaelites Victorian avant-garde Tate Britain 12 September 2012–13 January 2013 The curators of this large multimedia exhibition have attempted to present the Pre-Raphaelite artists as Britain’s first modern art movement, hence the subtitle ’Victorian avant-garde’. One of the curators, Alison Smith says ‘I wanted to show them as modern artists rather than soft romantics’. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood began in 1848 with just three young men as its founder members. Rossetti, Holman Hunt, and Millais rebelled against the standard teachings of the Royal Academy. They wanted to return to clean lines and took pre-renaissance art as their example. …
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