Countdown 49

Humanities
Literature - Fiction

• Read Short story THE LIFE YOU SAVE MIGHT BE YOUR OWN by Flannery O'Conner (1925-1964). Title refers to the old signposts found along highways. Flannery trademarks seems to be using "disabled" characters in her stories and there is often a reference to peacocks.

• Read Short story IMAGINED SCENES by Ann Beattie (1947-) Postmodernism.

Fine Arts: Visual Arts
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, English painters, poets, critics founded in 1848.

• James Collinson (painter)
• William Holman Hunt (painter)
• John Everett Millais (painter)
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti (painter, poet)
• William Michael Rosetti (critic)
• Frederic George Stephens (critic)
• Thomas Woolner (sculpter, poet)

The Brotherhood's early doctrines were expressed in four declarations:

1. To have genuine ideas to express;
2. To study Nature attentively, so as to know how to express them;
3. To sympathise with what is direct and serious and heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of what is conventional and self-parodying and learned by rote;
4. And, most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues.

They were influenced by Romanticism but were fascinated by medieval art.

Persephone, by
Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

John Everett Millais - Christ in the House of his parents

Medea by Evelyn De Morgan, 1889 in quattrocento style