Frasi di Thomas Eakins

Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins è stato un pittore, fotografo, scultore ed educatore artistico statunitense.

Fu uno dei più grandi pittori americani del suo tempo, un insegnante innovativo ed un realista senza compromessi.

Fu anche il più trascurato maggior pittore della sua era negli Stati Uniti d'America. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Luglio 1844 – 25. Giugno 1916
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Thomas Eakins: Frasi in inglese

“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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