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Date: 16 April 2019
British Sumer Time uploaded in London – 20-15
Post No. 6272
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Painting and Drawing Anecdotes
The great moral satirist, Hogarth, was once drawing in a room
where many of his friends were assembled, and among them a young lady. As she
stood by Hogarth, she expressed a wish to learn to draw caricature.
“Alas! Young lady, said Hogarth, it is not a faculty to be
envied. Take my advice, never draw caricature — by the long practice of it I
have lost the enjoyment of beauty. I never see a face but distorted. I have
never the satisfaction of to behold the human face divine.”
William Hogarth
Painter
Description
William Hogarth FRSA was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. Wikipedia
Born: 10 November 1697, London
Periods: Rococo, Baroque, Neoclassicism, Realism
Series: A Harlot’s Progress, Beer Street and Gin Lane, MORE
Place of burial: St Nicholas’ Church, London, St. Nicholas’s Churchyard, London
Known for: Painting, Engraving, Satire
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Lord’s Commandments –
Abraham Licoln
Abraham Lincoln was shown a picture done by a very
indifferent hand, and asked to give a opinion of it.
Why? said Lincoln, the painter is a very good painter and
observes the Lord’s commandments
What do you mean by that, Mr Lincoln?
Why I think, answered Lincoln, that he hath not made to
himself the likeness of anything that is in the heaven above, or that is in the
earth beneath or that is in the waters under the earth.
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Nature is creeping up
On one occasion a woman said to Whistler,
I just came up from the country this morning along the Thames
and there was an exquisite haze in the atmosphere which reminded me so much of
your little things. It was really a perfect series of Whistlers.
“Yes, Madame, Whistler responded gravely,
Nature is creeping up.”
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
American artist
Description
James Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American artist, active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He was averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, and was a leading proponent of the credo “art for art’s sake”. Wikipedia
Born: 11 July 1834, Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
Periods: Modern art, Impressionism, Realism, Symbolism, Aestheticism, Tonalism, Japonism
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What is Art?
Degas stopped to look at each canvas, and presently gave a little exclamation of disgust.
“To think, he remarked, that not one of these fellows has ever gone so far to ask himself what art is all about!”
“Well, what is all about? “Countered the critic.
“I have spent my whole life trying to find out . If I knew I should have done something about it long ago”.
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Thank God, I don’t know my style!
Ambroise Vollard once told Degas of a painter who had come to
him, exclaiming,
“At last I have found my true style!”
“Well, said Degas, I am glad I have not found my style yet. I
would be bored to death.”
Edgar Degas
French artist
Description
Edgar Degas was a French artist famous for his paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings. He is especially identified with the subject of dance; more than half of his works depict dancers. Regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism, he rejected the term, preferring to be called a realist.Wikipedia
Born: 19 July 1834, Paris, France
Died: 27 September 1917, Paris, France
Periods: Impressionism, Modern art, Realism, Neoclassicism
Full name: Hilaire-Germain-Edgar
De Gas
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