tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post4738186145438792265..comments2024-03-27T11:43:33.889-04:00Comments on Stapleton Kearns: Bouguereau, and historical precedentStapleton Kearnshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-17479029115165512612011-01-29T13:46:52.503-05:002011-01-29T13:46:52.503-05:00Thank your for the "Promenade à âne" - i...Thank your for the "Promenade à âne" - i it's now in my Blog about donkeys, Greatings from SwitzerlandAmicus Asinihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07704314945712609956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-68963554871114059002009-04-18T08:32:00.000-04:002009-04-18T08:32:00.000-04:00Jeremy;
All of us are,compared to Bouguereau,too ...Jeremy;<br /><br />All of us are,compared to Bouguereau,too yellow and flat.I would have a difficult time placing one artist above the other though.I love them both. The rollicking, good natured,cheekinesss of the Bouchers is really charming. They are both variations on the same sort of picture. The Bouguereau's have the advantage of being made at a point closer to us in time. They seem more "photographic" so they are more approachable for us.It is because they are recent, that they have been such an influence on young traditional painters......StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-54642474256115792202009-04-18T01:52:00.000-04:002009-04-18T01:52:00.000-04:00Boucher was a great draftsman, but man, Bouguereau...Boucher was a great draftsman, but man, Bouguereau's skin tones are to die for. Boucher's seem too yellow and flat.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17579185594957855023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-72093504184975345452009-04-17T21:32:00.000-04:002009-04-17T21:32:00.000-04:00Richard:
What a perceptive comparison. My post I ...Richard:<br /><br />What a perceptive comparison. My post I am working on is about the prep work Mr. Bouguereau did to make his paintings.<br /> What do you suppose Picasso did to those women that moved both eyes on to one side of their heads like flounders? Left broken and floundering.<br /> When I do a demo I usually paint a seascape out of my head. What did you paint? I also have a rubber chicken ( no kidding ) that I produce at one point during the demo. The few times I have forgotten it people have called out from the back of the room "wheres the rubber chicken?".<br />........StapeStapleton Kearnshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00226409516935208164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5682081471599286551.post-34059013704702057852009-04-17T20:34:00.000-04:002009-04-17T20:34:00.000-04:00I recently gave a talk and demo at the Cincinnati ...I recently gave a talk and demo at the Cincinnati Womens Art Club. I love to discuss these seemingly over sexed images, as many women pass them off as sexist or misogynistic. Those same 'feminists' hail Picasso as a wonderful modern man. <br />The sexist Bouguereau was the first to open a school for training women painters in France, while Picasso spent his life leaving a trail of broken women and painting them as monsters. <br /><br />I notice while typing this, that spell check recognizes Picasso, but not Bouguereau, so who is more important? <br /><br />It is hard to not stop before a Bouguereau and not gasp in wonder at how he manage to paint it. It seems as though his painting were just breathed onto the canvas.Richard J. Luschek IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17391295820585129843noreply@blogger.com