History ~

An Inconvenient Truth for the DNC

For more than 200 years, our party has led the fight for civil rights…..  http://www.black-and-right.com/the-democrat-race-lie/

A delegation prepared for an audience with President Woodrow Wilson, the archetypal Progressive Liberal Democrat.

Cartoon by Lorenzo Harris, found in, The Crisis ‪June 1915‬ - Published Monthly by The National Association For The Advancement of Colored People

The lies are big, bold and prominent.

http://spectator.org/archives/2012/09/04/the-dncs-bold-lies/

Woodrow Wilson, proud Progressive Liberal Democrat!  (art by Ben Stahl)

Frazetta inspired by Dalmonte?

or: Inspired By(?) #6

Was Frank Frazetta inspired by Luigi Dalmonte's Wolber bicycle tire ad?

Probably not,

but who knows?

And Speaking of Sappho

or: The Birth of Literature ~ or: The Genus of Genius ~ or: The Species of Literature (‽)

Re: A Howard Pyle decorative panel

In 1905 Howard Pyle painted a group of decorative panels for his own residence. The theme he chose was "The Arts," the various branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance.

Genius of Literature, 1905 - Howard Pyle

Genus of literature, 1909 - snapped at delart.org

"Genus of Literature" …reading that title, given at delart.org, left me perplexed. If you ask, 'Why?', please continue~

The article, The Field of Art: Mural Painting In This Country Since 1898 (Scribner's Magazine volume XL, July~Dec 1906), provides the titles: The Genius of Literature ; The Genius of Art ; The Genius of Music ; The Genius of Drama.  ~ Apt titles for decorative works.

page from vol XL July-Dec 1906 - Scribner's magazine, Volume 40

The 1921 bibliography, Howard Pyle: A Record of His Illustrations and Writings by Willard S Morse and Gertrude Brincklé, published by The Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, changes the titles to: The Birth of Literature ; The Genus of Art ; Music ; Drama. ~ Dubious, odd and generic. Hey! What's in a name?

clipping from Howard Pyle: A Record of His Illustrations and Writings

genus - noun ( pl. genera |ˈjenərə| or genuses) Biology ~ (cut 'n' paste)

a grouping of organisms having common characteristics distinct from those of other such groupings. The genus is a principal taxonomic category that ranks above species and below family, and is denoted by a capitalized Latin name, e.g., Leo.

• (in philosophical and general use) a class of things that have common characteristics and that can be divided into subordinate kinds.

      ~ Ah so desu ka. If the subject of each panel was a genre of literature, Genus of Literature would be the overarching title, and each panel would have a subtitle, i.e., Poetry, Novella, Haiku, et cetera. That's not the case.

Genius of Shakespeare by Théodore Chasseriau

Genius - ( pl. genii |ˈjēnēˌī|) (in some mythologies) a guardian spirit associated with a person, place, or institution.

  ~ 'Spirit' being the more popular choice: The Spirit of the Beehive ; Spirit of St. Louis ; The Spirit of Radio ; Spirit of Liberty ; The Spirit of the Revolution ; or those 3 Spirits: The Ghost of Christmas Past, et cetera.

1793 - The Genius of Literature presenting her Pupils to Minerva

Minerva - The Roman goddess of poetry, wisdom, et cetera.

Minerva Conducting the the Genius of Arts to Immortality - Pierre Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823)

Arcadia - an idyllic, unspoiled, harmonious wilderness.

shepherd - a person who tends and rears sheep. (or in French, berger)

Les Bergers d’Arcadie by Nicolas Poussin (sans frame)

Idyll - In the visual arts, an idyll is a painting depicting the same sort of subject matter to be found in idyllic poetry, often with peasant life as its central theme.

Idyll c.1880 - Lord Leighton

Sappho - an Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos.

Sappho by Frederick Arthur Bridgman

(Lydia) Amanda Brewster Sewell (1859 - 1926)  Sappho, 1891

A possible title if it were an illustration/easel-painting ~ "An Arcadian Idyll: Sappho Reciting Before Shepherds"

Howard Pyle, An Arcadian Idyll: Sappho Reciting Before Shepherds, 1905

The Poet and the Muse

Inspired By(?) #6 or: Pyle inspired by …Moreau? …Delaunay?  …Chassériau?  …Leighton? …Hokusai‽

Howard Pyle

A young man (a poet?) embracing his elusive muse (personified by a mermaid) for the final time?

"And when your fingers find her, she drowns you in her body, 

Carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind." ~ Cream, Tales Of Brave Ulysses

Howard Pyle - The Mermaid, 1910

Gustave Moreau

Hesiod (a poet) and the muse, no mermaid but a Phrygian cap!

Gustave Moreau - Hésiode et la Muse, 1857

See also ~ https://picasaweb.google.com/104843871720362761374/GustaveMoreau18261898

Phrygian cap

Jules-Elie Delaunay

A poet but no muse.

Sappho Kissing Her Lyre by Jules-Elie Delaunay

Théodore Chassériau

A poet and his muse, but again not a mermaid.

Hero et Leandre, also known as Le Poete et la Sirene, 1841

See also ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_and_Daphne

Théodore Chassériau, Apollo and Daphne

Frederic Leighton

A mermaid and a fisherman, hmm… who is perhaps also a poet?

The Mermaid (The Fisherman and the Syren). (From a ballad by Goethe.) (26½ × 18½ in.) R.A.

Shown in 1858 at the Royal Academy, and again in the 1897 retrospective exhibition, was first entitled The Fisherman and Syren, and afterwards The Mermaid; it is a composition of two small full-length figures, a mermaid clasping a fisherman round the neck. The subject is taken from a ballad by Goethe:

"Half drew she him,

Half sunk he in,

And never more was seen."

Hokusai

WHATEVER.

http://www.delart.org/collections/howard_pyle/pyles_inspiration_mermaid.html

Master Copy #10

or: d'après l'antique #1

Jules-Elie Delaunay (1828-1891) after Phidias (circa 480 BC – 430 BC)

Jules-Elie Delaunay Parthénon - Frieze E VI 38-40 ; N VI 16 Graphite on tracing paper Inv. 4228

E VI : Poseidon, Apollo, Artemis (38-40)

N VI : four hydriaphoroi (water-carriers)

Jules-Elie Delaunay (1828-1891)

"Posterity will give their due to his fine portraits, forceful ornamentation and noble drawings, whose gravity did not seek the public eye. It may be that in spurning popularity, Delaunay found true glory." ~ Georges Lafenestre,

Elie Delaunay (Gazette des Beaux-arts, 1891, VI. 3rd period, p. 500)

Self-portrait V.1860 Oil on canvas 64,5 x 24,5 cm

Communion of the Apostles 1861 Oil on canvas 284 x 204 cm

Death of Nessus 1870 Oil on canvas 95 x 125 cm

Nude, Rome c.1858

Portrait of Madame Raoul-Alfred Philippe 1877 Oil on canvas 81 x 65 cm

Capri Graphite and watercolour highlighting 24,2x30 cm

Diane 1872

Decorative works completed in 1874 for the lobby of the Paris Opera, clockwise from top: Immortality (Le Zodiaque) ; Amphion (Amphion Building a City) ; Parnassus (Apollon recevant la lyre) ; Orphée et Eurydice (Orpheus and Eurydice).

http://www.jules-elie-delaunay.fr/en

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Master Copy #9

Robert-Fleury (1797–1890) after van Dyck

Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1797–1890) ~ pupil of Girodet, Gros and Horace Vernet. Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, 1850 ; Professor at l'École des Beaux-Arts in Paris ; Director of l'École des Beaux-Arts in Paris ; Director of the French Academy (Villa Medici) in Rome, 1866. Father of Tony Robert-Fleury.

Copie de la Pietà aux Anges de van Dyck

The Lamentation of Christ

Anthony van Dyck 
(Antwerp 1599 - Blackfriars 1641) 
1635 
oil on canvas 
115 x 208 cm

Sir Anthony Van Dyck (1599–1641)

Study for the Dead Christ

Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on gray-blue paper

10 7/8 x 15 7/16 inches (276 x 393 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910; I, 243