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John
Collier
1850-1934
Romantic British, Victorian Era, Painter, Author and Fine Arts Educator and Member of The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB)
One of the Most Prominent Portrait Painters of The Victorian AgeEducation - Munich Art Academy
Artistically and stylistically influenced the following painters and art periods; Early Renaissance, Byzantine Style, Gothic era, Frederick Leighton, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais
Cause of Death - Old Age
John Collier was not aiming simply to illustrate a legend or myth but was inclined toward a more individual interpretation that symbolized a deeper spiritual meaning.
The term Pre-Raphaelites refers to High Renaissance artist Raphael. Some members of the PRB referred to Raphael's work as slosh and criticized his decadent themes and lifestyle. Dante Rossetti and the other (PRB) artists embraced the artistic style of Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Paolo Veneziano, Andrea del Verrocchio and Giotto Bondone. The (PRB) felt that these painters infused their works with drama, godliness and sacred themes.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) was founded in 1848. The spirit and motive of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a certain profound self-vision formed by going within to discover and express it with the greatest possible purity and power. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, loved and admired by PRB artists, asserted "When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art."
The most important artist was a handsome and charming painter named Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Rossetti and his chums, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, rejected Neoclassical and High Renaissance art and embraced the spiritually infused works of the Early Renaissance, Byzantine Style and Gothic painters. The Pre-Raphaelite color pallet differed from artist to artist but most artworks are characterized by fresh, luminous jewel tones. According to Victorian art critic John Ruskin "The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly altogether. But the man who has only studied its roundness may not see its purples and grays, and if he does not will never get it to look like a peach; so that great power over color is always a sign of large general art-intellect." Pre-Raphaelite painters sought to created a new artistic style using biblical, mythological, and literary imagery as the subjects of their art-works. Their paintings often contain obscure visual symbols and secret riddles.
John Collier 's
favorite
subject matter
mythology
Arthurian legends
femme fatale
Italian themes
classical themes
historical themes
literary themes
mermaids
wood nymphs
Writers
who influenced John Collier
Goethe
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
John Keats
Shakespeare
Coventry Patmore
Charles Dickens
Tennyson
Dinah Maria Mulock
Painters Associated With The Pre- Raphaelite Movement
James Collinson
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