The Best Men of the Party: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Podcast with Erin Prevo & Sydney Collins
Taylor Swift. Hole. Shakespeare. Michelangelo. The Psychedelic Movement. What does all of this pop culture have in common? The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Beginning in the 1850s, at the start of the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was formed because the founding members were all critical of the current art productions in England that had succeeded the Romantic era, Michelangelo, and… Raphael (get it… Pre- RAPHAELite). Although the Pre Raphaelites were regularly the butt of the joke and clowned on by the press, art critics regularly lauded their art and new and original--- which it was. This podcast is about what the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was, the difference between how they were seen by the public as a group versus how they were seen by the art world, and their lasting impact on every medium in the art world still to this day. Listen below!
You guys did an amazing job! The conversation flowed very well, the outside sources you brought in were interesting and greatly contributed to the topic. My favorite part was the mini segment you did about the big question of separating the art from the artist, as it is relevant to the past and to all of us today. You gave a very detailed explanation of the paintings you covered that it felt as though I was looking at it and not being described the image. I also really like how you both related your topic to modern times that way to keep it interesting and to be reporting but also add your own perspectives to it!
ReplyDeleteI really thought you guys made a great effort to relate the topics of your podcast to a contemporary context and experiences, and I think that these efforts payed off in a really great way. I enjoyed the connections that you made between the Pre-Raphaelites and artists like Banksy, so are also known to be somewhat infamous, yet very famous. At the end of the podcast, you guys said that you thought Maggie Rogers is similar to the Pre-Raphaelites because she uses a variety of different stylistic choices in her music. It's kind of crazy to think that the Pre-Raph's were like the first collective to do something like this, since I feel like there are so many pop culture connections that we see in the world today.
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