tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post2010971449120022804..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: James McNeil WhistlerStapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-32283075845586699432009-09-07T09:04:15.269-04:002009-09-07T09:04:15.269-04:00A Whistler book was the first Art book I bought wh...A Whistler book was the first Art book I bought when I started painting.Apparently he never did liked his portraits, which I admired SO much. I had always thought I would paint in a Whistler manner.Just goes to show you that an independently trained artists will always paint they way they paint, personality creeps in and life is revealed. My work couldn't be further from Whistler's. I learned so many lessons about design, composition and scale looking at Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother, at Museum D'Orsay. Now those lessons I could incorporate and did into my work. Brilliant. reproductions will never give the masterwork the full sense of what was accomplished.mariandioguardi.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16963944767715466681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-53973173921276508932009-09-06T21:58:40.694-04:002009-09-06T21:58:40.694-04:00Deb;
I will define those things.I think that a lot...Deb;<br />I will define those things.I think that a lot of people didn't get American Art history in school. It is essential to the formation of aesthetic taste to know it. How can you make good paintings if you don't know what the look like.We are also going to learn the to tell Heppelwhite from Eastlake and Richardsonian Romanesque from Federal before we are done here. That thing on top of his head is a peculiar tuft of gray hair that was part of his dandified appearance. It is in all of the portraits of him.<br />........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-77941694393244762812009-09-06T21:53:58.702-04:002009-09-06T21:53:58.702-04:00Philip:
When I ran into that portrait I had to use...Philip:<br />When I ran into that portrait I had to use it. I was going to use the Wm. Chase, but this one is more........rock and roll.He looks like Zappa.<br />.........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-38595744970868233822009-09-06T21:52:19.405-04:002009-09-06T21:52:19.405-04:00Jeanne;
Thank you.
.................StapeJeanne;<br />Thank you.<br />.................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-70787914068461813642009-09-06T21:51:17.045-04:002009-09-06T21:51:17.045-04:00Gregory:
Congratulations on getting into the show,...Gregory:<br />Congratulations on getting into the show, sorry about the chicken piece though.If they had been ducks you would probably have been fine, unless of course I was on the jury.<br />...........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-63684235010013764162009-09-06T21:49:40.164-04:002009-09-06T21:49:40.164-04:00Jeff;
IO have a book on Whistler in my Library, an...Jeff;<br />IO have a book on Whistler in my Library, and when I wrote this post, I thought there was so much I could have included. The Peacock Room comes to mind. Also I could have done a long post on his etchings.<br />...............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-14633102424877462402009-09-06T21:47:16.069-04:002009-09-06T21:47:16.069-04:00Jeremy;
No Hawthorne is later,but more importantly...Jeremy;<br />No Hawthorne is later,but more importantly he is stylistically later.<br />Because of his book and the long history of the Cape school of art, lots of painters today know Hawthorne. I don't know that I would put him into the level of painters that we have been discussing. I imagine I just angered a number of you, but I just did Whistler, and soon I will do William Merrit Chase and Childe Hassam,Hawthorne is not going to make as short a list as I am writing, besides he was to my knowledge mostly a figure painter. <br />That criterion has already caused me to skip over Homer, Eakins, William Sidney Mount ,Eastman Johnson and Sully.I have been postying landscape painters and only a spotty representation of those. This is an enormous subject and I am doing a very digested version.Please send any complaints about this to;<br /><br />Harry Reed<br />United States Capitol building<br />Washington D.C.<br /><br />..........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-88739197911943921922009-09-06T21:37:13.724-04:002009-09-06T21:37:13.724-04:00Walter:
Thanks,I wish I could see that video.
I kn...Walter:<br />Thanks,I wish I could see that video.<br />I know a Dumond student who is still alive,<br />Can't be too many of those.<br />........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-60330104375203758262009-09-06T19:49:36.578-04:002009-09-06T19:49:36.578-04:00wow, this will teach me to leave for a couple of d...wow, this will teach me to leave for a couple of days.. this is just incredible stuff...<br />May I ask how you would define the major characteristics of the Barbizon school, and actually, the Luminists also. This is really the only art history I've ever gotten, and I'm desperately trying to wrap my brain around it all..<br />What the heck is that thing on top of Whistler's head???Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01799016923038189074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-41674152209058267122009-09-06T12:14:41.020-04:002009-09-06T12:14:41.020-04:00Walter Greaves was a student of Whistler's.Walter Greaves was a student of Whistler's.jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03014751431677271423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-51170249805064164322009-09-06T11:08:53.848-04:002009-09-06T11:08:53.848-04:00Stape, that portrait of Whistler you open the post...Stape, that portrait of Whistler you open the post with is just too over the top. I had to go lie down after seeing it.Philip Kochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05191070779177407750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-38212392330746160532009-09-06T09:06:16.740-04:002009-09-06T09:06:16.740-04:00I am delighted to find your blog. I will check on ...I am delighted to find your blog. I will check on it often. I also saw your website and really love your paintings. JeanneJeannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18023259132381073207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-72372444142666173032009-09-06T04:51:44.265-04:002009-09-06T04:51:44.265-04:00That is exactly how an artist should be paid.That is exactly how an artist should be paid.Gregory Beckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840770708114257366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-58986743263501025892009-09-06T03:51:57.562-04:002009-09-06T03:51:57.562-04:00Whistler, what more can be said about him. He was ...Whistler, what more can be said about him. He was a fine painter, ahead of his time in so many ways. His prints rival Rembrandt's and Zorn's and if did nothing else his status in art history would be secure based on that body of work alone. Let's not forget his watercolors and pastel drawings.<br /><br />whistler's wife Jo was from Glasgow and the Hunterian Museum has the largest collection of his work outside of the U.S. the time I was there they had his palettes and those long brushes he used. Some of them were about 3 feet long. They also had his china and other items from his home. It was interesting to see all of this. The most interesting was how on some of his palettes he had white in the center and colors left and right of it based on warm and cool for lack of a better term. They also had his mahl stick which was made of bamboo.<br />His watercolor boxes and the small sketch box he used for out door painting which was the size of a cigar box. <br /><br />Another aspect about Whistler was his devotion to his wife Jo who after the Ruskin trial came was diagnosed with cancer and he spent the rest of her life time devoted to find a cure for her. Which is how the Hunterian came to be into the Whistler estate as he bequeathed it to them in honor of his wife.jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03014751431677271423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-4384675562235737562009-09-06T01:57:49.221-04:002009-09-06T01:57:49.221-04:00Whistler is such an interesting fellow!
By the wa...Whistler is such an interesting fellow!<br /><br />By the way, Charles Hawthorne was around then too right? He seemed to be around the same time as the Hudson River School, but not like them stylistically. Although, maybe you aren't covering him as he did more figures than landscapes??Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17579185594957855023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-47822567709757155292009-09-06T01:18:48.854-04:002009-09-06T01:18:48.854-04:00Once again, thanks, great stuff here. Frank Mason ...Once again, thanks, great stuff here. Frank Mason whom I studied with many years, his teacher, Frank Vincent Dumond met and became friends with Whistler in Paris. <br />Frank over the years told some amazing stories concerning Dumond and other notable artists of that time and experiences he had. The most memorable stories were captured on video at a special talk he gave a few years ago at the Salmagundi Club and the story of meeting Whistler is on it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07699546973021233767noreply@blogger.com