I'm currently looking up at this giclee of "A Call to Arms" on my wall. It's by Edmund Blair Leighton, and is probably one of my favorite works of art.
I'm a big fan of Pre-Raphaelite art (click here to learn more: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/history/pre-raphaelite.html) as most of my friends know. There's just something that I find to be particularly special about this particular school of art. The romanticism. The beauty. The intangible emotions these works of art stir in me. All this is encapsulated, to me, in "A Call to Arms."
Realists, Cubists, Post-Modernists... they don't do it for me. I like to take girlfriends to art galleries, so I've learned to fake my enthusiasm for the Impressionists (I've yet to find a woman that doesn't go absolutely ga-ga over Monet!). But when people say "art," Pre-Raphaelites, along with works from the Late Renaissance, are what pops into my mind first.
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