Frases de Thomas Eakins

Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins fue un pintor estadounidense.

✵ 25. julio 1844 – 25. junio 1916
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Frases célebres de Thomas Eakins

“Una vez pinté un cantante de concierto y en el marco de madera de castaño tallé las barras de apertura de Rest in the Lord de Mendelssohn. Era ornamental discreto y para los músicos creo que enfatizaba la expresión de la cara y la pose de la figura.”

Fuente: Thomas Eakins: Scenes from Modern Life, 2002.
Fuente: Documental de la PBS. https://www.pbs.org/eakins/index.htm Consultado el 25 de julio de 2019.

“Nunca he descubierto que el desnudo pueda ser estudiado de ninguna manera, excepto la forma en que lo he adoptado. Todos los músculos deben ser señalados. Para ello se deben quitar todas las cortinas.”

Dijo esto al crítico de arte Riter Fitzgerald, quien citó a Eakins en un artículo en Philadelphia Item (1895); citado en Eakins (1967) por Sylvan Schendler, Capítulo 10.
Fuente: «Selections from the Seymour Adelman collection, 1845-1958.» (Una colección de documentos relacionados con Eakins y su familia del Archives of American Art-Smithsonian.) https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/selections-seymour-adelman-collection-10785 Smithsonian. Consultado el 26 de julio de 2019.

Thomas Eakins: Frases en inglés

“I have never discovered that the nude could be studied in any way except the way I have adopted. All the muscles must be pointed out. To do this all the drapery must be removed.”

Said to art critic Riter Fitzgerald, who quoted Eakins in an article in the Philadelphia Item (1895); from Sylvan Schendler, Eakins (1967), ch. 10.

“Strain your brain more than your eye… You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.”

Advice to his art students; quoted in Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins (1933).

“My figures at least are not a bunch of clothes with a head and hands sticking out but more nearly resemble the strong living bodies that most pictures show. And in the latter end of a life so spent in study, you at least can imagine that painting is with me a very serious study. That I have but little patience with the false modesty which is the greatest enemy to all figure painting. I see no impropriety in looking at the most beautiful of Nature's works, the naked figure. If there is impropriety, then just where does such impropriety begin? Is it wrong to look at a picture of a naked figure or at a statue? English ladies of the last generation thought so and avoided the statue galleries, but do so no longer. Or is it a question of sex? Should men make only the statues of men to be looked at by men, while the statues of women should be made by women to be looked at by women only? Should the he-painters draw the horses and bulls, and the she-painters like Rosa Bonheur the mares and cows? Must the poor old male body in the dissecting room be mutilated before Miss Prudery can dabble in his guts?Such indignities anger me. Can not anyone see into what contemptible inconsistencies such follies all lead? And how dangerous they are? My conscience is clear, and my suffering is past.”

Letter of resignation to Edward Hornor Coates, Chairman of the Committee on Instruction, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1886-02-15).

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