Time Scenery Of Pre-Raphaelite Artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Paintings

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a leader of the Pre-Raphaelite in Nineteenth Century, whose works accompanied with a mark of Victorian Age. One of the new research perspectives is the time scenery in Rossetti’s paintings, which explores the time meaning reflected by his paintings as a space art by combining the time meanings in the form of his works, the artist’s time experiences lying in the core massage of his works and the express way and idea of time in his paintings, which affects others in later ages.The thesis cleans out three unique time sceneries in Rossetti’s paintings:The first one is the retrospection of time. By representing the past things, Rossetti breaks the limitation of time which regress the time series to the past. Thus, by representing the past things in paintings, Rossetti rebuilds the past sceneries. Rossetti gets a transformation of current time pressure and an escape of modern industrial civilization through retrospective means, such as three image patterns:a new expression of old subject, yesterday once more and the return of classical. The second is the solidification of time. When the time series blocked, time is concentrated to a singularity. During the frozen moment, time is in highly intensive and rich in aesthetic charming with act reservoir in still. Thus, instantaneous eternal significance abolishes the time dimension, which let people forget the pressure form the irreversible time. Rossetti giving praises to the sexy woman, natural plants and other symbols of life is to sing the elegy for youth and obtain the imaginary relief in the still time. The last is the spatialization of time. Combining with varieties of art forms and integrating several time art resources, Rossetti creates a posture of time spreading and rushing in the space art. The world changes into a free maze in space art. Thus people find the control strength of time in the open arts habitat. Rossetti introduces design, literature, music and other artistic effect and time means into paintings, opens interactive influence and diversified time and space scene, constructs transcend time system.The characteristic of Rossetti’s paintings lie in:firstly, in his paintings, Rossetti expresses time consciousness and time experience. He uses the space form of painting to place time concepts related to various proposition. Secondly, three time sceneries in Rossetti’s paintings integrate many techniques of time expression means in visual still art. In different respects of the contents and forms, the paintings give the aesthetic acceptance, visual thinking, psychological experience and more impressions with time change by waking up the cultural memory, putting in the imagination, settling activity in still, using the pun of symbol and metaphor, the suggestion of the form tension, the guide of image narration, the conversion show of poetry and painting, the synaesthesia of visual music and so on. Thirdly, the time scenery of Rossetti’s Paintings interact time art and space art practicing the idea that time and space couldn’t be separated and endowing space-time relationship the complicated concept with active explain. The thesis takes the paintings of Rossetti as chief source to study the time problem in space, and card its state of spread and inherit, in order to explore paintings’time questions in a full and holographic view.