标题: van Gogh's Painting of an Oxherd [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 12-8-2012 11:59 标题: van Gogh's Painting of an Oxherd Mary Tompkins Lewis, Eternal Petience: The strength and character of humanity, captured in one face. Wall Street Journal, Nov 24. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 15313500018222.html
Note:
(1) Family names:
(a) The English surname Tompkins means son of "a pet form of the personal name Thomas."
(b) Frick is a short form of Friedrich.
(2) The Frick Collection http://www.frick.org/about
("The collection was assembled by the Pittsburgh industrialist Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) and is housed in his former residence on Fifth Avenue")
(3)
(a) Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)
(b) van Gogh (disambiguation) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Gogh_(disambiguation)
(Van Gogh or van Gogh, a family name meaning "from Gogh")
* Gogh is Dutch spelling--English /German spelling being Goch--for a town now in Germany but close to the border with the Netherlands.
(5) Patience Escalier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portraits_by_Vincent_van_Gogh
(sectin 4.13 Vieux Paysan: Patience Escalier)
(a) French:
vieux (adj): "old"
paysan (noun masculine): "peasant"
(b) Patience is now a female given name.
(6) The article said, "To many in late 19th-century France, these rugged denizens of the provinces represented the moral bedrock of the Third Republic."
French Third Republic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War
(from 1870, when the Second French Empire collapsed [in the wake of Franco-Prussian War], to 1940, when it was replaced by the Vichy France government after the French Third Republic's defeat to Nazi Germany in the early stages of World War II)
(a) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Terre
(published in 1887)
(b) Emil (given name) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_(given_name)
(The name Emil, Emile or Émile is a male given name, deriving from the Latin [family name] Aemilius of the gens Aemilia. The female given name is Emily; Italian form: Emilio)
(9) The article alludes to "Symbolist palettes."
(11) The article commented, "the rigorous terrain and brilliant light of the Midi would shape his portraits there as well as his plein-air views."
(a) For Midi, see Southern France http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_France
(Southern France (or the south of France), colloquially known as le Midi)
* French:
midi (n masculine): "noon"
(b) plein-air (adj; French, open air; First Known Use 1894):
"of or relating to painting in outdoor daylight"
(12) Prussian blue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_blue
("Prussian blue [Fe4[Fe(CN)6]3] was probably synthesized for the first time by the paint maker Diesbach in Berlin around the year 1706. Most historical sources do not mention a first name of Diesbach")
(13) The article used the wording:
(a) "emotive paintings."
emotive (adj):
"appealing to or expressing emotion <the emotive use of language>"
(b) "The unmodulated, saturated tones and vehement handling of paint that characterize the [] painting."
modulate (vt; Latin modulatus, past participle of modulari to play, sing, from [noun] modulus small measure, rhythm, diminutive of [Latin noun] modus measure):
"to adjust to or keep in proper measure or proportion : TEMPER" http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/modulate
(c) underdrawing (n; First Known Use 1968):
"a preliminary sketch made on a surface (as a canvas or panel) prior to painting"