Art is the Solution

The Rescue Source: Google Arts & Culture I’ve decided that this week is going to be John Everett Millais week on this blog. In celebration of Millais’ work, I’m going to be sharing one of his paintings each day, and today I want to look at one of his most famous and dramatic paintings: The Rescue . The Rescue, also known as The Fireman , dates to the end of Millais’ Pre-Raphaelite period. Shortly after The Rescue was exhibited, Millais married Effie Gray and moved to Scotland, two events that coincide with a major shift in his artistic style. However, The Rescue is also unique in Millais’ oeuvre in that it is one of the first modern subjects he painted. Previously, Millais’ work focused on literary, religious, and historical subjects. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood believed that art should depict serious subjects in a realistic way. In The Rescue , Millais applies these principles to a modern social problem: fire in London. The painting depicts a fireman carrying three children ...