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Anthony Powell — The Artist as a Young Man
Powell is known as a novelist and book critic, but he probably began drawing before he knew how to write. In his autobiography, he relates that by the time he was six, his drawings, including a Mephistopheles, were shown to a visitor to his family. The term Post Impressionism (then recently introduced by Roger Fry) was bantered as the pictures were critiqued. He began at Eton in 1919 and took Extra Drawing from the drawing master Sidney Evans, who first told him of Picasso and Matisse. At Eton he drew for an art magazine, The Eton Candle (1922) , and at Oxford, which he attended from 1923 to 1026, his drawings appeared in another magazine, The Cherwell. His drawing Colonel Caesar Cannonbrains of the Black Hussars (1922) is reproduced in To Keep the Ball Rolling (p56).
Monthly Archives: August 2016
The Drunkenness of Lot
Rushing to see the Candaules and Gyges fresco, Dr. Brightman provides ongoing commentary: These tapestries must be Florentine — look, The Drunkenness of Lot. The daughter on the left greatly resembles a pupil of mine, but we must not tarry, … Continue reading
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Luca Giordano
Referring to art works in the Bragadin Palazzo, Dr. Brightman says. “These Luca Giordano will keep them most of them quiet for the time being.” [TK 80] Jenkins adds, “Gwinett, preferring to go over the Palazzo at his own speed, … Continue reading
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Tiepolo IV: Guardi’s Sister and The Agony in the Garden
Continuing her reflections on Tiepolo’s Candaules and Gyges, Dr. Brightman muses, “I wonder whether the model was the painter’s wife . . . If so, she was Guardi’s sister. Gyges looks rather like the soldier in The Agony in … Continue reading
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