PowerPoint Presentation: Brushstrokes to Keystrokes W riting Fiction about Artists & Architects Mary Burns Michael Llewellyn Yves Fey Ciji Ware
Brushstrokes to Keystrokes: Brushstrokes to Keystrokes Writing Fiction about Artists & Architects
MARY BURNS: Portraits of an Artist: MARY BURNS: Portraits of an Artist
PowerPoint Presentation: The characters in the novel are Sargent’s portraits.
PowerPoint Presentation: John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
PowerPoint Presentation: Carolus Duran, Sargent’s master, taught him art as well as business.
PowerPoint Presentation: Sargent preferred to paint watercolors and landscapes, but portraits brought money and fame.
PowerPoint Presentation: His first entry to the Paris Salon was very “impressionistic.”
PowerPoint Presentation: The Paris Salon, started in 1752, was very conservative.
PowerPoint Presentation: The “Salon des Refusés” was the birth of the avant-garde, 1863.
PowerPoint Presentation: The “new” Salon, post-1878, welcomed new styles of art.
PowerPoint Presentation: Sargent’s “Portraits d’Enfants” was on a 7’ by 7’ square canvas.
PowerPoint Presentation: Louise Burckhardt was rumored to have had a liaison with Sargent.
PowerPoint Presentation: Albert de Belleroche, also rumored to have had a liaison with Sargent.
PowerPoint Presentation: “Every portrait painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not the sitter.” -- Oscar Wilde
PowerPoint Presentation: The “Portrait of Madame X” was the flashpoint of a scandal that drove Sargent from Paris.
MICHAEL LLEWELLYN: Creole Son: MICHAEL LLEWELLYN: Creole Son
PowerPoint Presentation: Celestine Musson, Degas’s Creole Mother
PowerPoint Presentation: The balcony railing helped to identify the Degas family house in New Orleans.
PowerPoint Presentation: Edgar Degas, self portrait, 1865
PowerPoint Presentation: Prussian siege of Paris, 1870-71
PowerPoint Presentation: New Orleans, 1870s
PowerPoint Presentation: Degas House, New Orleans
PowerPoint Presentation: Degas’s cousin, Estelle Musson
PowerPoint Presentation: Cotton Offices in New Orleans
PowerPoint Presentation: Cotton Merchants , in Degas’ “new” style
PowerPoint Presentation: Port of New Orleans, circa 1872
YVES FEY: Floats the Dark Shadow: YVES FEY: Floats the Dark Shadow
PowerPoint Presentation: The scandalous Eiffel Tower, born in 1889, became the symbol of a new era.
PowerPoint Presentation: But memories of the Commune haunted Paris. (painting by Maximilien Luce)
PowerPoint Presentation: Renoir’s painting of La Moulin de la Galette shows the joy of the Belle Époque.
PowerPoint Presentation: Few women artists were granted any recognition. Mary Cassatt was one.
PowerPoint Presentation: Berthe Morisot exchanged ideas and techniques with Manet.
PowerPoint Presentation: Eva Gonzalès was also a student of Manet.
PowerPoint Presentation: Marie Braquemond’s husband forced her to abandon Impressionism.
PowerPoint Presentation: Artist’s model, then painter, Suzanne Valadon was unique.
PowerPoint Presentation: Many women attended L’Academie Julien.
PowerPoint Presentation: All students learned by copying the masters in the Louvre.
PowerPoint Presentation: L’Ecole des Beaux Arts first admitted women in 1897.
PowerPoint Presentation: Galatea and the Cyclops , by Gustave Moreau Morning Walk , by John Singer Sargent Different men urged my heroine Theo to paint in different styles.
PowerPoint Presentation: Theo might experiment with meticulous Pointillism, like Maximilien Luce.
PowerPoint Presentation: Or she might try energetic brush work like Van Gogh.
PowerPoint Presentation: She might have done this sketch of the Moulin de la Galette by Federico Zandomeneghi
PowerPoint Presentation: But Theo’s painting style most resembles the bold assymetric compositions of Degas’.
CIJI WARE: A Race to Splendor: CIJI WARE: A Race to Splendor
PowerPoint Presentation: Julia Morgan, Architect
PowerPoint Presentation: San Francisco on Fire, 1906
PowerPoint Presentation: Mills College Bell Tower
PowerPoint Presentation: Morgan family Oakland carriage barn, post-quake
PowerPoint Presentation: 250,000 homeless for 2-1/2 years
PowerPoint Presentation: Julia Morgan’s drawing skills
PowerPoint Presentation: Fairmont Hotel, damaged by fire, April 1906
PowerPoint Presentation: Interior Damage, Fairmont Hotel
PowerPoint Presentation: Fairmont Hotel Restoration
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