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a few of my favourite things...

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I haven't written anything that wasn't for university in a while, and I have a lot of half-written pieces for my blog that I don't have the energy to finish at the moment so in between longer, more researched posts, I have decided to introduce a little series called "a few of my favourite things". For this series, I will be discussing the various forms of art that have recently (in the last few months) sparked my interest, whether it be art, fashion, films, music, books or anything else that I have enjoyed. The other day I was going through the blog I had when I was younger and I would do posts similar to this but in the form of Zoella-style monthly favourites consisting of a few cheap makeup products I had bought from Superdrug that weekend and occasionally a book I liked. This series, however, is slightly different in the sense that it is a list of things I actually like and I am unlikely to talk about makeup since I wear the same mascara I have used for years a
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Edgar Allen Poe once said, 'The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world.' ... A rather odd thing to say, albeit a common feeling in the nineteenth century, and a fascination that has lived on; perhaps it isn't quite so romantic anymore. The romanticisation, or beautification, of death, has been immortalised in every form of art; painting, photography, fashion, literature, poetry, film, etc. In many cases, it is the beauty of a woman's death that is most sought after, most written about, and most portrayed in art. In this piece, with the focus on painting and photography, I will be exploring the representation of death in the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and how a woman's suicide became a work of art. The magnum opus of paintings to emerge from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was Ophelia by John Everett Millais, 1851-52. Even those unfamiliar with the small group of painters in Victorian London recognise this bea
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