James and the Animals Parts 26 & 27 are posted

JAMES AND THE ANIMALS PART XXVI

JAMES AND THE ANIMALS PARTXXVII 27

 

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

William Faulkner

 

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)

 

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)

Where Carrie and van Helsing are after dinner

James 24 is posted.

James 25 is posted.

Photo courtesy Philadelphia Academy of Music.

Where van Helsing & Carrie are Dining Tonight

Parts 23 & 24 Posted.

Bon Appetit !

V

MARY CASSAT "The Boating Party" 1893-94

 

Cassatt, Mary

Cassatt, Mary (b. May 22, 1844, Allegheny City, Pa., U.S.--d. June 14, 1926, Château de Beaufresne, near Paris, Fr.), American painter and printmaker who exhibited with the Impressionists.

The daughter of an affluent Pittsburgh businessman, whose French ancestry had endowed him with a passion for that country, she studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, and then travelled extensively in Europe, finally settling in Paris in 1874. In that year she had a work accepted at the Salon and in 1877 made the acquaintance of Degas, with whom she was to be on close terms throughout his life. His art and ideas had a considerable influence on her own work; he introduced her to the Impressionists and she participated in the exhibitions of 1879, 1880, 1881 and 1886, refusing to do so in 1882 when Degas did not.

She was a great practical support to the movement as a whole, both by providing direct financial help and by promoting the works of Impressionists in the USA, largely through her brother Alexander. By persuading him to buy works by Manet, Monet, Morisot, Renoir, Degas and Pissarro, she made him the first important collector of such works in America. She also advised and encouraged her friends the Havemeyers to build up their important collection of works by Impressionists and other contemporary French artists.

Her own works, on the occasions when they were shown in various mixed exhibitions in the USA, were very favourably received by the critics and contributed not a little to the acceptance of Impressionism there. Despite her admiration for Degas, she was no slavish imitator of his style, retaining her own very personal idiom throughout her career. From him, and other Impressionists, she acquired an interest in the rehabilitation of the pictural qualities of everyday life, inclining towards the domestic and the intimate rather than the social and the urban (Lady at the Teatable, 1885; Metropolitan Museum, New York), with a special emphasis on the mother and child theme in the 1890s (The Bath, 1891; Art Institute of Chicago). She also derived from Degas and others a sense of immediate observation, with an emphasis on gestural significance. Her earlier works were marked by a certain lyrical effulgence and gentle, golden lighting, but by the 1890s, largely as a consequence of the exhibition of Japanese prints held in Paris at the beginning of that decade, her draughtsmanship became more emphatic, her colors clearer and more boldly defined. The exhibition also confirmed her predilection for print-making techniques, and her work in this area must count amongst the most impressive of her generation. She lived in France all her life, though her love of her adopted countrymen did not increase with age, and her latter days were clouded with bitterness.

Text Courtesy - Web Museum - Paris

Painting Courtesy - National Gallery of Art - Wash.,D.C.

[ James 22 is posted ]

JAMES AND THE ANIMALS PART XXI

James  Part 21 is posted.

Finally getting hold of my ego, this is the final time that I will post an alert to a new James And The Animals Post in this journal. I`m sure it`s getting boring to regular readers, and James` few, but very dedicated fans have set alerts, will be alerted, or will click on my other J`s to stop by.

V

For Emily Dickinson

As I lay dying,

in this shared room of pain

I see my son`s eyes.

Concern and pain reflect

to me.

 

No others near me

I have outlived my family

and no friends are close,

I have no friends.

 

Son adjusts my pillow

I smell his scent

but it seems like a baby`s

fresh and pure and clean.

 

I smile an inch

try to raise my hand,

Expire.............

C2004 Deabler,V.T.

James and the Animals Part XX

James Part 20 is posted!http://journals.aol.com/deabvt/JAMESANDTHEANIMALS/

 

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JAMES AND THE ANIMALS PART XIX

James and the animals  Part XIX is posted!!

 

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HAPPY MOTHER`S DAY

Happy Mother`s Day to all of the wonderful Moms I`ve met in J-Land!

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JAMES AND THE ANIMALS PART XVIII

James and the Animals   Part 18 is Posted!

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JAMES AND THE ANIMALS

 

I T ` S M A Y !! The Lusty Month of MAY !!!!

       The Lusty Month of May     
From Camelot the musical

(In a Castle garden the Queen and the courtiers are a-maying)

(Guenevere)
Tra la! It's May!
The lusty month of May!
That lovely month when ev'ryone goes
Blissfully astray
Tra la! It's here!
That shocking time of year!
When tons of wicked little thoughts
Merrily appear

It's May! It's May!
That gorgeous holiday
When ev'ry maiden prays that her lad
Will be a cad!

It's mad! It's gay!
A libelous display
Those dreary vows that ev'ryone takes
Ev'ryone breaks
Ev'ryone makes divine mistakes
The lusty month of May!

Whence this fragrance wafting through the air?
What sweet feelings does its scent transmute?
Whence this perfume floating ev'rywhere?
Don't you know it's that dear forbidden fruit!
Tra la la la la. That dear forbidden fruit!
Tra la la la la

(Knights and Ladies) Tra la la la la!
(Guenevere) Tra la la la la!
(Knights and Ladies) Tra la la la la!
(Guenevere) Tra la!
(Knights and Ladies) Tra la!
(Guenevere) Tra la!
(Knights and Ladies) Tra la!

(Guenevere)
Tra la la la la la la la la la la la
La la! It's May!
The lusty month of May!
That darling month when ev'ryone throws
Self-control away
It's time to do
A wretched thing or two
And try to make each precious day
One you'll always rue

It's May! It's May!
The month of "yes, you may,"
The time for ev'ry frivolous whim
Proper or "im"

It's wild! It's gay!
A blot in ev'ry way
The birds and the bees with all of their vast
Amorous past
Gaze at the human race aghast

(Guenevere, Knights and Ladies) The lusty month of May!

(Guenevere)
Tra la! It's May!
The lusty month of May!

(Knights and Ladies)
That lovely month when ev'ryone goes
Blissfully astray
Tra la! It's here!
That shocking time of year!
When tons of wicked little thoughts
Merrily appear

It's May! It's May!
The month of great dismay

(Guenevere)
When all the world is brimming with fun
Wholesome or "un"

(Guenevere, Knights and Ladies)
It's mad! It's gay!
A libelous display
Those dreary vows that ev'ryone takes
Ev'ryone breaks
Ev'ryone makes divine mistakes
The lusty month of May!

***All lyrics posted copyright 1960 Alan Jay Lerner and
Frederick Loewe Chappell & Co., Inc., Warner Bros. Publications U.S. Inc 

  When i was very young, I saw "Camelot" the last month before Richard Burton & Julie Andrews left the show on Broadway! Vince

RODIN, AUGUSTE "The Gates Of Hell " 1880-1917

  Rodin, Auguste

Rodin, Auguste (1840-1917). The French artist Auguste Rodin had a profound influence on 20th-century sculpture. His works are distinguished by their stunning strength and realism. Rodin refused to ignore the negative aspects of humanity, and his works confront distress and moral weakness as well as passion and beauty.

Francois-Auguste-Rene Rodin was born on Nov. 12, 1840, in Paris. At the age of 14 he entered the Petite Ecole, a school of decorative arts in Paris. He applied three times to study at the renowned Ecole des Beaux-Arts but was rejected each time. In 1858 he began to do decorative stonework in order to make his living. Four years later the death of his sister Marie so traumatized Rodin that he entered a sacred order.

The father superior of the order recognized Rodin's talents and encouraged him to pursue his art. In 1864 Rodin met a seamstress named Rose Beuret. She became his life companion and was the model for many of his works. That year Rodin submitted his Man with a Broken Nose to the Paris Salon. It was rejected but later accepted under the title Portrait of a Roman. Rodin traveled in 1875 to Italy, where the works of Michelangelo made a strong impression on him. The trip inspired his sculpture The Age of Bronze, which was exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1877. It caused a scandal because the critics could not believe that Rodin had not used a casting of a live model in creating so realistic a work.

The controversy brought Rodin more fame than praise might have. In 1880 he was commissioned to create a bronze door for the future Museum of Decorative Arts. Although the work was unfinished at the time of his death, it provided the basis for some of Rodin's most influential and powerful work. In 1884 he was commissioned to create a monument that became The Burghers of Calais. His statues St. John the Baptist Preaching, Eve, The Age of Bronze, and The Thinker are world famous. Rodin died on Nov. 17, 1917, and was buried at Meudon.

When Rodin was 76 years old he gave the French government the entire collection of his own works and other art objects he had acquired. They occupy the Hotel Biron in Paris as the Musee Rodin and are still placed as Rodin set them.

Photo courtesy Rodin Museum, Phila.,Pa

Biography courtesy Web Museum

JAMES AND THE ANIMALS PART XVII

James and the Animals, Part XVII is Posted.

Vince