FACTORY GIRL

After thinking about the tragically beautiful Ophelia by Millais I was very pleased to come across the John William Waterhouse exhibition at The Royal Academy when I was going to see the Summer Exhibition (which was also an exhilarating art boost I have so badly needed of late). I found the Waterhouse exhibition really inspiring and am now really interested in Pre-Raphaelite work and want to continue looking into it.



John William Waterhouse
The Lady of Shalott
1888

Waterhouse was reacting to Millais' Ophelia with this piece.
The lady of Shalott knows she is about to die as a result of a curse put upon her. The curse meant she could only look at things through a mirror and weave a tapestry of the reflection but when she saw Lancelot in the reflection she was unable to help herself but look out the window. This resulted in her being doomed.