The Pre-Raphaelite and Contemporary British Art
1 August, Thursday, 19:30 - 23:00
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture and the British Council are organising an event dedicated to the Pre-Raphaelite movement: various events will take place at the summer pavilion and educational centre to show the artists' influence on contemporary culture and to discuss why the Pre-Raphaelites can be considered modern.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, founded in Britain in 1848, can rightly be considered the first avant-garde artistic movement in Europe. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and their followers revolutionized the arts scene in the Victorian era and transformed traditional ideas of the visual arts.
The event is inspired by the exhibition "Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde" at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts and is run as part of the official educational programme that can be found on the special exhibition website PRB.artguide.ru
Programme:
19:30-20:40 Talk by Jason Rosenfeld ‘The PRB, Pop Art, and the YBAs: The Pre-Raphaelite Avant-Garde and British Contemporary Art'
21:00-21:50 Screening of the short film, Goblin Market, a live-action film adaptation of the cult poem by Christina Rossetti
22:00-23:00 DJ set and free drinks at the summer pavilion: a mix of contemporary electronic and Victorian music
Entrance is free. Please come in advance as places are limited.
19:30-20:40 Talk by Jason Rosenfeld ‘The PRB, Pop Art, and the YBAs: The Pre-Raphaelite Avant-Garde and British Contemporary Art'
In his talk, this co-curator of the 'Pre-Raphaelite: Victorian Avant-Garde' at Tate Britain will bring the PRB into the present. We'll talk about the Pre-Raphaelites as the YBAs* of their generation and how the marketing strategy of the PRB reflects the rise of the international art world that we live in today.
* YBA (Young British Artists) were the young radical artists born in the mid-1960s who changed the contemporary arts world and were initially supported and collected by Charles Saatchi. Among them are Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Jake and Dinos Chapman and Marc Quinn.
Jason Rosenfeld is a Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College. He has published many articles and reviews on British art and architecture and contemporary art. He was a co-curator of the exhibition "The Post-Pre-Raphaelite Print" at the Wallach Art Gallery in 1995, and contributed to the "Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection" exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 2003. He was also a curator of the major exhibition on Millais at Tate Britain, and, based on his research, Phaidon Press published the monograph on that artist in 2012.
The talk will be in English with simultaneous translation. ID is required for the equipment.
21:00-21:50 Screening of the short film, Goblin Market, a live-action film adaptation of the cult poem by Christina Rossetti
The poem, recently translated in the first Russian anthology "The Poetic World of the Pre-Raphaelites", will be read before the screening. The film director, Anna Blandford will present her work and give a brief interpretation.
Sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina was the bright poet of the time and strongly associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement; Dante composed the original illustrations for Goblin Market. Attracting controversy ever since its publication in 1862, this canonical British poem has long deserved a cinematic realisation.
Directed by Anna Blandford, Goblin Market has recently been screened at the Tate Britain in London, in association with the Pre-Raphaelite exhibition, with further screenings at Encounters Festival and the London Short Film Festival.
Written by Anna Blandford, Anna Valdez Hanks
© Fallen Films 2012
The twenty minute film will be screened in English with the Russian subtitles.
