Yearning art

Ron Hicks - Yearning, 2018 Oil 48 x 55.50

The Pre-Rapaelites hated Mannerism with a passion. Their four doctrines were the following: - to have genuine ideas to express; - to study Nature attentively, so as to know how to express them; - to sympathise with what is direct and serious and heartfelt in previous art, - to the exclusion of what is conventional and self-parading and learned by rote; and most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues. #romanticart #waterhouse #johnwilliamwaterhouse

The Pre-Raphaelite artists of Victorian England painted many Shakespearian characters, but Ophelia was a particular favourite. The sad death by drowning of Hamlet's sweetheart...

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Ryan Morse on Instagram: “Drifting 9x12 Oil on panel Thank you to @hogabophotography for taking such wonderful photos. . . . #art #morse_illustration #ryanmorse…”