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 Dante Gabriel Rossetti

FAKE ROMANTICISM OR EXCESSIVE FAIRY TALE


Prosepine (1874)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Tate Britain


At first glance, we see the beauty of Rossetti's paintings, nothing is missing, everything is perfection but on the other hand we realize that everything is basically a shell without depth, a beautiful bottle per perfume but empty! The painting of Proserpine, everything is perfectly painted, but there is a mistake of a "superficiality" girl, only her hair points us to some character and personality, her face seem to be of plastic.
Art attracts us by asking the question, it's missing here, because the artist has tried too hard to show us the god's origins of  Proserpine. Unfortunately, he just pushed to us a fake perfection into the face.

A background without a girl can be an ideal painting. 
Other Rossetti's paintings such as Paolo and Francesca da Rimini and The Wedding of St George and Princess Sabra all point to a romantic moment can be said too romantic that can be interpreted and as a step towards exaggerated fairy tale.
From fake romanticism and fairytalism to the superficiality of the characters, the whole of the works tend to be illustrations. But they are not yet because  they remind us too much about many old masters. For this reason, we still tolerate Dante.

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