The Use Of Plant Elements In Pre-Raphaelite Paintings

The pre-raphaelite Brotherhood was a movement of art reform that arose in England in 1848.It followed the tradition of romanticism,calling for the rejection of mechanistic academic dogma and seeking artistic inspiration before the Renaissance master Raphael.Learning from nature,it tried to cleanse the mainstream artistic society with the "simple" style from the late middle ages to the early Renaissance.In his works,there is a key factor-the appearance of plants frequently.The pre-raphaelites has its achievements in painting and poetry.Here,"oil painting" works are selected as the entry point,which is distinguished from the "poetry" works of the pre-raphaelites.Through the classification,comparison and analysis of the number of his oil paintings,the subject matter and the way of plant image expression,the following four aspects are explored in combination with the history and main purpose of the pre-raphaelites:1.The relationship between the plant image and the subject in the pre-raphael oil paintings.This includes: ? both of the area proportion of the relationship.? The relationship between the two compositions.2.The role of plant images in pre-raphaelite paintings.For example,whether the role of decoration,symbolic meaning,as a clue to the story of the picture and whether the visual tension direction of the composition is related to the plant modeling.3.Analyze the action mechanism of plant image and sublimate it into a general rule.4.Consider the historical value of the pre-raphaelites.After combing the research materials,this paper holds that the plant image has a wide range of expression in the pre-raphael oil painting,and plays an important role in composition,decoration,symbolic meaning and other aspects,and has a variety of collocation patterns with the main body of the picture.At the same time,the plant imagehas the function of regulating the visual tension,which can make the balance or conflict of the picture.In addition,the mechanism of action of plant image is applicable to other general objects.Extending from plants,the pre-raphaelites show the historical significance of connecting the past and the future,and their research is beneficial to bring new clues to artistic creation by making use of the past and the new.