Julius Kronberg (1850-1921)

Julius Kronberg

Johan Julius Ferdinand Kronberg (11 December 1850 – 17 October 1921) was a Swedish artist and decorative painter.[1]

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Quotes·Quotations by Julius Kronberg

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Julius Kronberg, from the Svenskt Porträttgalleri XX

 

 

 

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

Edmond Aman-Jean (1858-1936)

Edmond Aman-Jean

Edmond Aman-Jean (13 November 1858, Chevry-Cossigny – 25 January 1936, Paris) was a French symbolist painter, who co-founded the Salon des Tuileries in 1923.[1]

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Quotes·Quotations by Edmond Aman-Jean

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Agence de presse Meurisse (Paris 1918)

 

 

 

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Aman-Jean

Childe Hassam (1859-1935)

Childe Hassam

Frederick Childe Hassam (/ˈtʃaɪld ˈhæsəm/; October 17, 1859 – August 27, 1935) was an American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes.[1]

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Childe Hassam

 

 

Childe Hassam, early 20th century

 

 

 

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

Carl Larsson (1853-1919)

Carl Larsson

Carl Olof Larsson (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈkɑːɭ ˈlɑ̌ːʂɔn]; 28 May 1853 – 22 January 1919) was a Swedish painter representative of the Arts and Crafts movement.[1]

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Gallery

 

 

Azalea, 1906

 

 

 

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

Henri-Edmond Cross (1856-1910)

Henri-Edmond Cross

Henri-Edmond Cross, born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix, (20 May 1856 – 16 May 1910) was a French painter and printmaker.[1]

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Gallery

 

 

L'air du soir, c. 1893, oil on canvas, h 116 x w 164 cm, Musée d'Orsay

 

 

 

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Edmond_Cross

Peder Severin Krøyer (1851-1909)

Part of
Self portrait,
1897

Peder Severin Krøyer
페더 세버린 크뢰이어

Peder Severin Krøyer (Danish: [ˈpʰe̝ːðɐ ˈse̝vəˌʁiˀn ˈkʰʁʌjˀɐ]; 23 July 1851 – 21 November 1909), also known as P. S. Krøyer, was a Danish painter.[1]

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Works

 

 

Summer Evening on Skagen's Southern Beach, 1893, 100 x 150 cm, Skagens Museum

 

 

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peder_Severin_Kr%C3%B8yer

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)

Self-Portrait
with Straw Hat,
Paris,
Winter 1887–88.
Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York[c]

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)[a]

Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch: [ˈvɪnsɛnt ˈʋɪləɱ vɑŋ ˈɣɔχ]; 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness,[1][2] he died aged 37 from a gunshot wound, generally accepted to be self-inflicted (although no gun was ever found).[3] His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still.

Van Gogh began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2,100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1,300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints. His work included self portraits, landscapes, still lifes, portraits and paintings of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.

Van Gogh spent his early adulthood working for a firm of art dealers, traveling between The Hague, London and Paris, after which he taught for a time in England. One of his early aspirations was to become a pastor and from 1879 he worked as a missionary in a mining region in Belgium where he began to sketch people from the local community. In 1885, he painted his first major work The Potato Eaters. His palette at the time consisted mainly of somber earth tones and showed no sign of the vivid coloration that distinguished his later work. In March 1886, he moved to Paris and discovered the French Impressionists. Later, he moved to the south of France and was influenced by the strong sunlight he found there. His work grew brighter in color, and he developed the unique and highly recognizable style that became fully realized during his stay in Arles in 1888.

The extent to which his mental health affected his painting has been a subject of speculation since his death. Despite a widespread tendency to romanticize his ill health, modern critics see an artist deeply frustrated by the inactivity and incoherence brought about by his bouts of illness. According to art critic Robert Hughes, van Gogh's late works show an artist at the height of his ability, completely in control and "longing for concision and grace".[4]

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Quotes·Quotations by Vincent van Gogh[b]

Appearance

¶ I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

@ One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way.

Arts

¶ I dream my painting and then I paint my dream.

It’s a beautiful way of expressing how his inner world and dreams inspire his artistic creations.

Passion

¶ "I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart."

This quote inspires individuals to approach their endeavors with wholehearted dedication, continuously seeking growth and striving for excellence.

Others

@ If only we try to live sincerely, it will go well with us, even though we are certain to experience real sorrow, and great disappointments, and also will probably commit great faults and do wrong things, but it certainly is true, that it is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent. It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love, is well done. [The Letters of Vincent van Gogh to his Brother, 1872-1886 (1927) Constable & Co]

@ Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. [As quoted in The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, Vol. 2 (1958) New York Graphic Society, p. 12]

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Images

Works

1883

Cows in the Meadow, August 1883, oil on canvas, 31.4 x 43.8 cm, Museo Soumaya, Mexico City, Mexico

 

1885

The Vicarage Garden under Snow, Nuenen, January 1885, oil on canvas mounted on panel, h 58.4 x w 79.1 cm, Norton Simon Museum

 

1888

Summer evening in Arles, Arles, June 1888, oil on canvas, h 73.5 x w 92 cm, Kunstmuseum Winterthur

Coal barges, August 1888, oil on canvas, h 71 x w 95 cm, Private collection

Quay with men unloading sand barges, August 1888, oil on canvas, h 55.1 x w 66.2 cm, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Starry Night Over the Rhone, Sep 1888, oil on canvas, h 72 x w 92 cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

 

1889

The Starry Night, Jun 1889, oil on canvas, h 73 x w 92 cm, Museum of Modern Art

 

1890

Two Peasant Women, March 1890 - April 1890, oil on paper mounted on canvas, h 49.3 x w 64 cm, Kunsthaus Zürich

 

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Footnotes

[1]^ The pronunciation of "Van Gogh" varies in both English and Dutch. Especially in British English it is /ˌvæn ˈɡɒx/ van-gokh or sometimes /ˌvæn ˈɡɒf/ van-gof. U.S. dictionaries list /ˌvæn ˈɡoʊ/ van-goh, with a silent gh, as the most common pronunciation. In the dialect of Holland, it is [ˈvɪnsɛnt fɑŋˈxɔx], with a voiceless V. Van Gogh grew up in Brabant (although his parents were not born there), and used Brabant dialect in his writing; it is therefore likely that he himself pronounced his name with a Brabant accent: [vɑɲˈʝɔç], with a voiced V and palatalized G and gh. In France, where much of his work was produced, it is [vɑ̃ ɡɔɡə]

[2]^ A biography published in 2011 contends that van Gogh did not kill himself. The authors claim that he was shot by two boys he knew, who had a "malfunctioning gun". See Vincent van Gogh's death. [|Gompertz, Will] (17 October 2011). "Van Gogh did not kill himself, authors claim". BBC News. Retrieved 17 October 2011.

[3]^ It has been suggested that being given the same name as his dead elder brother might have had a deep psychological impact on the young artist, and that elements of his art, such as the portrayal of pairs of male figures, can be traced back to this. See Lubin (1972), 82–4

[4]^ "...he would not eat meat, only a little morsel on Sundays, and then only after being urged by our landlady for a long time. Four potatoes with a suspicion of gravy and a mouthful of vegetables constituted his whole dinner"—from a letter to Frederik van Eeden, to help him with preparation for his article on Van Gogh in De Nieuwe Gids, Issue 1, December 1890. Quoted in Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait; Letters Revealing His Life as a Painter. W. H. Auden, New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, CT. 1961. 37–9

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[a] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

[b] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh

[c] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Gogh_Self-Portrait_with_Straw_Hat_1887-Metropolitan.jpg

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death.

Wilde's parents were successful Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. He also profoundly explored Roman Catholicism, to which he would later convert on his deathbed. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States of America and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde had become one of the most well-known personalities of his day.

At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London.

At the height of his fame and success, whilst his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), was still on stage in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, prosecuted for libel, a charge carrying a penalty of up to two years in prison. (Libel Act of 1843) The trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest, tried for gross indecency with other men. After two more trials he was convicted and imprisoned for two years' hard labour. In prison he wrote De Profundis (written in 1897 & published in 1905), a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. Upon his release he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six.

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Quotes·Quotations by Oscar Wilde

Animal

¶ The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

Appearance

¶ Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Arts

¶ Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Beauty

¶ Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. [The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890; revised 1891)]

¶ The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

Children·Youth

¶ An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

¶ I am not young enough to know everything.

Experience

¶ Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. [Mr. Dumby, Act III, Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)]

Finance·Money

¶ It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Stars

¶ We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. [Lord Darlington, Act III, Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)]

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

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (1855-1897)

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford (1855-1897)

Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, née Hamilton, (27 April 1855 – 24 January 1897), was an Irish novelist whose light romantic fiction was popular throughout the English-speaking world in the late 19th century.

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Quotes·Quotation by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Beauty

¶ Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

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

Booker T. Washington (1858-1915)

Booker T. Washington (1858-1915)

Booker Taliaferro Washington (April 5, 1858 or 59 – November 14, 1915) was an African-American educator, author, orator, advisor to Republican presidents, and black political leader. He was the dominant figure in the African-American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915. Representative of the last generation of black American leaders born in slavery, he spoke on behalf of the large majority of blacks who lived in the South but had lost their ability to vote through disfranchisement by southern legislatures. While his opponents called his powerful network of supporters the "Tuskegee Machine," Washington maintained power because of his ability to gain support of numerous groups: influential whites; the black business, educational and religious communities nationwide; financial donations from philanthropists, and his accommodation to the political realities of the age of Jim Crow segregation.

Washington was born into slavery to Jane, an enslaved woman, and a white father. His father was a nearby planter, in a rural area of the southwestern Virginia Piedmont. After emancipation, his mother moved the family to rejoin her husband in West Virginia; there Washington worked in a variety of manual labor jobs before making his way to Hampton Roads seeking an education. He worked his way through Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute (now Hampton University) and attended college at Wayland Seminary (now Virginia Union University). In 1876, Washington returned to live in Malden, West Virginia, teaching Sunday School at African Zion Baptist Church; he married his first wife, Fannie Smith, at the church in 1881. After returning to Hampton as a teacher, in 1881 he was named as the first leader of the new Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

Washington attained national prominence for his Atlanta Address of 1895, which attracted the attention of politicians and the public, making him a popular spokesperson for African-American citizens. He built a nationwide network of supporters in many black communities, with black ministers, educators and businessmen composing his core supporters. Washington played a dominant role in black politics, winning wide support in the black community and among more liberal whites (especially rich Northern whites). He gained access to top national leaders in politics, philanthropy and education. Washington's efforts included cooperating with white people and enlisting the support of wealthy philanthropists, helping to raise funds to establish and operate thousands of small community schools and institutions of higher education for the betterment of blacks throughout the South. This work continued for many years after his death. Washington argued that the surest way for blacks to gain equal social rights was to demonstrate "industry, thrift, intelligence and property."

Northern critics called Washington's followers the "Tuskegee Machine". After 1909, Washington was criticized by the leaders of the new NAACP, especially W. E. B. Du Bois, who demanded a stronger tone of protest for advancement of civil rights needs. Washington replied that confrontation would lead to disaster for the outnumbered blacks, and that cooperation with supportive whites was the only way to overcome pervasive racism in the long run. At the same time, he secretly funded litigation for civil rights cases, such as challenges to southern constitutions and laws that disfranchised blacks. Washington was on close terms with national republican leaders, and often was asked for political advice by presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.

In addition to his contributions in education, Washington wrote 14 books; his autobiography, Up From Slavery, first published in 1901, is still widely read today. During a difficult period of transition, he did much to improve the working relationship between the races. His work greatly helped blacks to achieve higher education, financial power and understanding of the U.S. legal system. This contributed to blacks' attaining the skills to create and support the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, leading to the passage of important federal civil rights laws.

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Quotes·Quotations by Booker T. Washington

Happiness

¶ I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Responsibility

¶ Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booker_T._Washington

Henri Bergson (1859-1941)

Henri Bergson (1859-1941)

Henri-Louis Bergson (French: [bɛʁksɔn] 18 October 1859 – 4 January 1941) was a major French philosopher, influential especially in the first half of the 20th century. Bergson convinced many thinkers that immediate experience and intuition are more significant than rationalism and science for understanding reality.

He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of his rich and vitalizing ideas and the brilliant skill with which they have been presented".[2] In 1930, France awarded him its highest honour, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur.

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Quotes·Quotations by Henri Bergson

Universe

¶ [L]'universe […] est une machine à faire des dieux.
Translation: The universe is a machine for making gods.
[The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932). Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002, p. 317.]

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References

[1]^ Hancock, Curtis L. (May 1995). "The Influence of Plotinus on Berson's Critique of Empirical Science". In R. Baine Harris. Neoplatonism and Contemporary Thought. Congress of the International Society for Neoplatonic Studies held in May 1995 at Vanderbilt University 10. International Society for Neoplatonic Studies. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 139ff Extra |pages= or |at= (help). ISBN 0-7914-5275 Check |isbn= value (help). "That the philosophy of Henri Bergson is significantly influenced by the doctrines of Plotinus is indicated by the many years Bergson devoted to teaching Plotinus and the many parallels in their respective philosophies. This influence has been discussed at some length by Bergson's contemporaries, such as Emile Bréhier and Rose-Marie Rossé-Bastide. [...]" |accessdate= requires |url= (help)
[2]^ "The Nobel prize in Literature". Retrieved 2010-11-15.

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