tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post6387204717048867983..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: Hitler, Eisenhower and Churchill landscape paintingsStapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-19843293948153904892013-11-22T00:22:45.551-05:002013-11-22T00:22:45.551-05:00Enjoyed your comments about these three artists. ...Enjoyed your comments about these three artists. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-6905450092963672822011-02-26T05:37:45.844-05:002011-02-26T05:37:45.844-05:00There was a character called Lord Haw Haw during t...There was a character called Lord Haw Haw during the war. He was a British traitor, who worked for the Nazis, broadcasting propaganda to the UK every day, telling us how we were losing the war. he was caught after the war and executed as a traitor.bvpainterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14804331299617862772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-59113743353019048362011-02-25T15:26:32.404-05:002011-02-25T15:26:32.404-05:00Thanks for this fascinating post. I recently got t...Thanks for this fascinating post. I recently got to see some churchill paintings at the DMA in dallas... its very interesting to see the three put together.Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03670357522273447610noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-3587581177566663352011-02-24T23:07:08.120-05:002011-02-24T23:07:08.120-05:00Stephanie;
Don't get me started.
................Stephanie;<br />Don't get me started.<br />..................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-32220268710486423452011-02-24T23:03:16.801-05:002011-02-24T23:03:16.801-05:00Terry;
That is a great story!
.................Sta...Terry;<br />That is a great story!<br />.................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-12257039129789595202011-02-24T23:02:38.703-05:002011-02-24T23:02:38.703-05:00Linda;
I will have to watch that movie.
.............Linda;<br />I will have to watch that movie.<br />..............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-19823031056411781352011-02-24T23:01:59.302-05:002011-02-24T23:01:59.302-05:00Kessie:
What if Stalin had remained in the seminar...Kessie:<br />What if Stalin had remained in the seminary?<br />...................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-2330962778835318952011-02-24T23:01:12.147-05:002011-02-24T23:01:12.147-05:00Deborah;
That guy wrote about everything.
...........Deborah;<br />That guy wrote about everything.<br />..............StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-9179814493254706652011-02-24T23:00:35.330-05:002011-02-24T23:00:35.330-05:00Bill;
A Haw-Haw is a ditch bricked otr lined with ...Bill;<br />A Haw-Haw is a ditch bricked otr lined with stone on one side and open on the other, set into a slope. It allows land sloping away from a home to be terraced yet the divisions are invisible from the house.<br />..................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-65604242249038213372011-02-24T22:58:32.712-05:002011-02-24T22:58:32.712-05:00Bill; As kids we sang a song to the tune of "...Bill; As kids we sang a song to the tune of "Whistle while you work" that described Mussolini inflicting peculiar damage upon Hitlers private parts. I bet that has gone from children's knowledge now. <br />.....................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-80986263093829030942011-02-24T22:56:23.268-05:002011-02-24T22:56:23.268-05:00Marian;
I stumbled into that also. I think it is o...Marian;<br />I stumbled into that also. I think it is only some of his record. It doesn't really do him credit.<br />................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-14740866496929485112011-02-24T22:54:59.069-05:002011-02-24T22:54:59.069-05:00Durinda:
Paul Harvey, with "the rest of the s...Durinda:<br />Paul Harvey, with "the rest of the story". Great delivery system.<br />..................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-42645769215131289912011-02-24T22:53:51.089-05:002011-02-24T22:53:51.089-05:00Lucy;
I am not surprised.
.................StapeLucy;<br />I am not surprised.<br />.................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-83029966664837399752011-02-24T22:53:19.861-05:002011-02-24T22:53:19.861-05:00Bernie:
Yes I know, but I am limited to what I can...Bernie:<br />Yes I know, but I am limited to what I can find online. I am reticent to scan books into the computer and then put things online.<br />....................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-13885895784840340692011-02-24T22:52:03.795-05:002011-02-24T22:52:03.795-05:00Gregory;
I dislike them all.
.................Stap...Gregory;<br />I dislike them all.<br />.................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-43678141614521333602011-02-24T22:51:39.990-05:002011-02-24T22:51:39.990-05:00Jeff:
I ran into the name the other night in my re...Jeff:<br />I ran into the name the other night in my research, of course now I can't find it.<br />.................StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-83666379917525594262011-02-24T19:54:58.348-05:002011-02-24T19:54:58.348-05:00I love all these comments. My mom has that small ...I love all these comments. My mom has that small book about Churchill's painting where he talks about not being timid in painting. He was a good painter but truly a great man and statesman that piloted the free world through the horror Hitler created. Where did that bust of him that the UK gave us go to????Stephanie Berryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01509283083557327502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-41667429988347606332011-02-24T17:38:03.361-05:002011-02-24T17:38:03.361-05:00Hi Stape,
This may be of interest, when I was15 my...Hi Stape,<br />This may be of interest, when I was15 my father was transfered to Morocco with the Strategic Air Command 1957. There was no place for families at the base so we rented a home in Marrakesh. The home was in a garden built by Louis Majorelle, a wellknown French painter (it was French Morocco at that time) of large figure paintings, very painterly. He was married several times and not willing to forego his garden, he would just build a new home for himself and his new wife adjoining the garden (each with a large studio, leaving the previous studio as it was the day he moved on!) I think there were 5 when I lived there. The garden was a child's delight paths wandered past pools and waterfalls under a dense forest of greenery and exotic plants and....a swimming pool! All this behind a thick high wall in the middle of a desert. There was another family with girls the age of I and my little sister and they would come to play and stay the night, perfect....until one day we were swimming happily and the servants brought a heavyset man poolside and helped him into a chair, lit his cigar and set up a french easel! He thoroughly enjoyed watching us (I can see that now!) we were horrified and went crying to the house complaining about the 'dirty' old man at the pool! Of course it was Churchill and he spent time there the winters of '57 and '58, while we sulked in the house! He loved to paint plein aire and the artists he painted with, all painted from life.<br />His work is much better than the one here, very much in the french impressionist manner.<br />Thank you again for this wonderful blog, TerryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-2521669037637941062011-02-24T14:08:19.545-05:002011-02-24T14:08:19.545-05:00Thanks for the post. I had not seen Eisenhower'...Thanks for the post. I had not seen Eisenhower's painting before. A really good movie about Hitler and his obsession with art is "The Rape of Europa" Art, or Hitler's perception of it, had much to do with WWII.Linda Schweitzerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09733574737893944083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-82120997171036626562011-02-24T10:24:10.696-05:002011-02-24T10:24:10.696-05:00Didn't the art academy that rejected Hitler te...Didn't the art academy that rejected Hitler tell him that he "had no imagination"? I always wonder if history might have been different had he been accepted there. <br /><br />It's funny that all of them painted, though, with varying degrees of success.Kessiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15019626781634777336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-45028153454227699802011-02-24T10:09:29.391-05:002011-02-24T10:09:29.391-05:00Churchill wrote a wonderful little book called Pai...Churchill wrote a wonderful little book called Painting as a Pastime in which he talked about how he came to paint and why it is such a wonderful thing to "take a joyride in a paintbox". Well worth reading.Deborah Parishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02242296435365350267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-29911507818451961312011-02-24T09:31:43.567-05:002011-02-24T09:31:43.567-05:00What's a Haw haw?What's a Haw haw?billspaintingmnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18343383719352968590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-29856681071235240882011-02-24T09:27:18.995-05:002011-02-24T09:27:18.995-05:00I not a bit like Caravaggio,but as a kid, I would ...I not a bit like Caravaggio,but as a kid, I would scrap with other kids, I punched em in the mouth to stop the fights.<br />I would have punched Hitler in the mouth, but I wasen't born till the 50's.<br />My big brothers' name is Ike!billspaintingmnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18343383719352968590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-25081577141057057592011-02-24T08:27:13.145-05:002011-02-24T08:27:13.145-05:00I was just talking about Churchill's painting....I was just talking about Churchill's painting...and wondering they looked like. He was an amazing man with am amazing life. as British as we think he is, his mother was American.<br /><br />I am a little late on this thread...but there is news breaking information on Caravaggio- the Italians JUST released the actual, handwritten records of his all his arrests, Vatican dealings , etc which also clarify his death. He died in a hospital and they have his death record. That mystery is solved. He was bad to the bone. Great painter.mariandioguardi.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16963944767715466681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-47328638504692297032011-02-24T08:26:43.429-05:002011-02-24T08:26:43.429-05:00Paul Harvey (remember him?) used to tell a fascina...Paul Harvey (remember him?) used to tell a fascinating story of two boys with very different backgrounds but great interests in art. They grow up, one becomes one of the greatest artists of all times despite his dismal beginnings and the other becomes the most hated man in history despite all his privileges. Who were they? DaVinci and Hitler.Durinda Cheek, Fine Artisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04419537093540606442noreply@blogger.com