Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894)

Gustave Caillebotte

Gustave Caillebotte (French: [ɡystav kɑjbɔt]; 19 August 1848 – 21 February 1894) was a French painter who was a member and patron of the Impressionists, although he painted in a more realistic manner than many others in the group.[1]

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Quotes·Quotations by Gustave Caillebotte

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Caillebotte, about age 30, c. 1878

 

 

 

Gallery

 

 

Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877, oil on canvas, 212.2 x 276.2 cm, Art Institute of Chicago

 

 

 

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustave_Caillebotte

John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)

John William Waterhouse

John William Waterhouse (baptised 6 April 1849 – 10 February 1917) was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter.[1]

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Quotes·Quotations by John William Waterhouse

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Waterhouse, c. 1886

 

 

 

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Works

1870s

 

 

Undine, 1872

 

 

 

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Waterhouse

William W. Fraser (1844-1915)

William W. Fraser

William W. Fraser (March 7, 1844 – February 9, 1915) was a Union Army soldier during the American Civil War. He received the Medal of Honor for gallantry during the Siege of Vicksburg on May 22, 1863. His surname is sometimes spelled Frazier.[1]

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Quotes·Quotations by William W. Fraser

Others

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_W._Fraser

Giuseppe De Nittis (1846-1884)

Giuseppe De Nittis

Giuseppe De Nittis (February 25, 1846 – August 21, 1884) was one of the most important Italian painters of the 19th century, whose work merges the styles of Salon art and Impressionism.[1]

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Quotes·Quotations by Giuseppe De Nittis

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Breakfast in the Garden, 1883

Giuseppe De Nittis, Self-portrait, 1884

 

 

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_De_Nittis

Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Oscar-Claude Monet (UK: /ˈmɒneɪ/, US: /moʊˈneɪ, məˈ-/, French: [klod mɔnɛ]; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it.[1]

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Images

Works

Three Cows Grazing, 1868, pastel on paper[2]

Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant), 1872; the painting that gave its name to the style and artistic movement. Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris[3]

Lavacourt under Snow (Coucher de soleil sur la neige à Lavacourt), 1881, oil on canvas, 59.7 x 80.6 cm, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin[4]

 

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Monet

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Three_Cows_Grazing_by_Claude_Monet.jpg

[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monet_-_Impression,_Sunrise.jpg

[4] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monet,_Lavacourt-Sunshine-and-Snow.jpg

Albert Joseph Moore (1841-1893)

Albert Joseph Moore

Albert Joseph Moore (4 September 1841 – 25 September 1893) was an English painter, known for his depictions of languorous female figures set against the luxury and decadence of the classical world.[1]

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A Summer Night, c. 1887 or 1890, oil on canvas, h 132 x w 228 cm, Walker Art Gallery[2]

Remastered color of "A Summer Night, c. 1887 or 1890, oil on canvas, h 132 x w 228 cm, Walker Art Gallery"[3]

 

 

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Joseph_Moore

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Joseph_Moore_-_A_Summer_Night_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

[3] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Joseph_Moore_-_A_Summer_Night_-_Google_Art_ProjectFXD.jpg

William James (1842-1910)

William James (1842-1910)

William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism. He was the brother of novelist Henry James and of diarist Alice James. In the summer of 1878, James married Alice Gibbens.

William James was born at the Astor House in New York City. He was the son of Henry James Sr., an independently wealthy and notoriously eccentric Swedenborgian theologian well acquainted with the literary and intellectual elites of his day. The intellectual brilliance of the James family milieu and the remarkable epistolary talents of several of its members have made them a subject of continuing interest to historians, biographers, and critics.

James interacted with a wide array of writers and scholars throughout his life, including his godfather Ralph Waldo Emerson, his godson William James Sidis, as well as Charles Sanders Peirce, Bertrand Russell, Josiah Royce, Ernst Mach, John Dewey, Macedonio Fernández, Walter Lippmann, Mark Twain, Horatio Alger, Jr., Henri Bergson and Sigmund Freud.

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Quotes·Quotation

Attitude

¶ The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

¶ The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

François-Auguste-René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917) was a French sculptor, and the preeminent sculptor of the modern era. He played a pivotal role in the art of the late nineteenth century, both excelling at and rebelling against the Beaux-Arts tradition.

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Quotes·Quotations by Auguste Rodin

Arts

¶ I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues

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@ Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
As quoted in Heads and Tales (1936) by Malvina Hoffman, p. 47

@ The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
As quoted in A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought (2004) by Lloyd Albert Johnson, p. 7

@ I know very well that one must fight, for one is often in contradiction to the spirit of the age.
As quoted in "Rodin freed human spirit" in The Des Moines Register (7 January 2007)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Rodin
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Auguste_Rodin

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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (French: [øʒɛn ɑ̃ʁi pol ɡoɡɛ̃]; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death. Gauguin was later recognized for his experimental use of colors and synthetist style that were distinguishably different from Impressionism. His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Gauguin’s art became popular after his death and many of his paintings were in the possession of Russian collector Sergei Shchukin. He was an important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer. His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art, while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential proponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms.

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Quotes·Quotations by Paul Gauguin

Art

¶ Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gauguin

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)

Frances
Hodgson
Burnett

Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 November 1849 – 29 October 1924) was an English-American playwright and author. She is best known for her children's stories, in particular Little Lord Fauntleroy (published in 1885-6), A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).

Frances Eliza Hodgson was born in Cheetham, near Manchester, England. After her father died in 1852, the family eventually fell on straitened circumstances and in 1865 emigrated to the United States, settling near Knoxville, Tennessee. There, Frances began writing to help earn money for the family, publishing stories in magazines from the age of 19. In 1870 her mother died and in 1872 she married Swan Burnett, who became a medical doctor after which they lived in Paris for two years where their two sons were born before returning to the US to live in Washington D.C. There she began to write novels, the first of which (That Lass o' Lowries), was published to good reviews. Little Lord Fauntleroy was published in 1886 and made her a popular writer of children's fiction, although her romantic adult novels written in the 1890s were also popular. She wrote and helped to produce stage versions of Little Lord Fauntleroy and A Little Princess.

Burnett enjoyed socializing and lived a lavish lifestyle. Beginning in the 1880s, she began to travel to England frequently and bought a home there in the 1890s where she wrote The Secret Garden. Her oldest son, Lionel, died of tuberculosis in 1892, which caused a relapse of the depression she struggled with for much of her life. She divorced Swan Burnett in 1898 and married Stephen Townsend in 1900, and divorced him in 1902. Towards the end of her life she settled in Long Island, where she died in 1924 and is buried in Roslyn Cemetery, on Long Island.

In 1936 a memorial sculpture by Bessie Potter Vonnoh was erected in her honour in Central Park's Conservatory Garden. The statue depicts her two famous Secret Garden characters, Mary and Dickon.

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Quotes·Quotations by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The
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Frances Hodgson Burnett from The Secret Garden (1911)

¶ "Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like...?"
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine..."

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Hodgson_Burnett

Émile Zola (1840-1902)

Émile Zola (1840-1902)

Émile François Zola (French pronunciation: [e.mil zɔ.la]; 2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France and in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted army officer Alfred Dreyfus, which is encapsulated in the renowned newspaper headline J'Accuse.[1]

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Quotes·Quotation

Arts, Artists

¶ My own art is a negation of society, an affirmation of the individual, outside all rules and demands of society.

¶ "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

Both the gift and the work are equally important for an artist to truly succeed and create meaningful art.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile_Zola

F. H. Bradley (1846-1924)

F. H. Bradley (1846-1924)

Francis Herbert Bradley (30 January 1846 – 18 September 1924) was a British idealist philosopher.

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Adam and Eve

@ “Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived.” It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms, no. 94 (1930)

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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/F._H._Bradley