If you read the biographies of preeminent artists - writers, painters, musicians - you discover an encyclopedia of suffering. Some cut their ears, others drank their sorrows away, a few found life unbearable and ended themselves. Are artists born tormented souls? If some people are born with genes that make them prone to misfortunes, or … Continue reading Artists and Suffering
Jean Gabriel Domergue was a French portrait painter who used for his subjects Parisian women. Domergue is regarded as the inventor of the pin-up. 'Domergue died 16 November 1962 on a Paris sidewalk.' Related articles Why We … Continue reading Jean Gabriel Domergue’s Sylphlike Women With Mean Faces
There was a time when every painter grinded his pigments from minerals and earths and other elements, and it was a long and laborious process. This was before the invention of colors-in-tubes. Azurite was the most popular blue pigment. It was made by grinding the mineral with the same name, which occurred in and around … Continue reading Read This If You Like Colors
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