The Pre-Raphaelite Exhibition at the Tate

I really love the Pre-Raphaelites. I know that they are meant to be the favourite of conservative Britain, which I obviously take to be an immensely negative appellation, but I really love them. Well actually I mostly love Millais's paintings and like the others as they are similar to Millais's. He is definitely for me the triumphant Pre-Raphaelite after visiting the exhibition. Here is one of his most amazing paintings that I didn't know about prior to the exhibition. Look closely, apparently the weird green things are 'vegetable bats'....

Here is my best of the rest for me... 'Convent Thoughts' by Charles Collins. I love this painting. It brings me joy and happiness, because it symbolises peace for me. I am areligious, but the idea of the leading the life of a nun appeals to me in so far as it means devoting your life to helping those in need, relinquishing material things and taking periods of quiet reflection and study of science and philosophy. Leading this way of life means you have reached a place of strength within yourself, where you can give up being introspective and you are ready to be strong for others and this point that a person can reach is embodied by this painting for me.