“The meaning of art is in the eye of the beholder. To straitlaced Victorians, John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia epitomized the shocking new ideals of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of rebel artists who rejected the prevailing style of the period. To feminist art historians, however, Ophelia represents something else: the brutal limitations placed upon women by the artistic establishment.”
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters shows women as artists, not muses. (The Atlantic)
Image: Night and Sleep, Evelyn De Morgan, National Portrait Gallery