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Father’s Day: Portrait of the Artist’s Father

June 17, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Happy Father’s Day all you dads out there!  In honour of this special day, DAF presents a selection of well known portraits of artist’s fathers.  Throughout history, artists have painted their fathers for numerous reasons; “as a tribute, to capture a memorable face, to work through conflicting emotions, as a family legacy, or the simple availability of a model.”

Have a great day everyone!

Artists Father-Paul Cezanne
The-Artists-Father--Pierre-Auguste-Renoir-1869
Father-Marcel-Duchamp
Max Ernst Showing a Young Girl the Head of his Father-1926-27
Portrait-of-the-Artists-Father---Gustave-Couret-1840
The-Artists-Father---Georges-Lemmen-1887
Portrait-of-My-Father-George-Wesley-Bellows-1906
Portrait of Father-Leon Kossoff-1978
Portrait of the Artists Father- Pablo Picasso-1896
Portrait of Father Galeazzo Campi-Giulio Campi - 1572
Father-Listening-to-Lorenzo-Pagans-Edgar-Degas-1869-70
Father of the Artist-MC Escher
Artist's Father Albrecht-Durer
Salvador Dali-portrait-of-the-artists-father-1925.jpg

 

Sources: Wikipedia, National Portrait Gallery

Filed Under: ART, Drawing, Painting Tagged With: Albrecht Durer, Edgar Degas, Father's Day, George Wesley Bellows, Georges Lemmen, Giulio Campi, Gustave Couret, Leon Kossoff, M.C. Escher, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Portrait of the Artist's Father, Salvador Dali

M.C. Escher: 1898-1972

June 17, 2009 By Wendy Campbell

M.C. Escher - Hand With Reflecting SphereMaurits Cornelis Escher, best known for his mathematically inspired prints, was born on June 17, 1898 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands.  Escher spent much of his childhood in Arnhem where he attended school.  Though he did well at drawing, Escher did not excel in other subjects and received poor grades. From 1919 – 1922, Escher attended the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem where he initially studied architecture but shifted to drawing and printmaking.

After finishing school, Escher traveled through Italy, where he met Jetta Umiker, whom he married in 1924. For the next 11 years, Escher traveled throughout Italy, sketching for the prints he would make back in Rome.  The couple remained in Rome until 1935 when growing political turmoil (under Mussolini) prompted them to move first to Switzerland and then to Ukkel, a small town near Brussels, Belgium.  In 1941, as German troops occupied Brussels, they moved once again to Baarn, Netherlands, where Escher lived until 1970.

During his lifetime, Escher created 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings and over 2000 drawings and sketches. His work portrays mathematical relationships among shapes, figures and space and many of his drawings are composed around interlocking figures (tessellations) and impossible objects.  Escher used vivid contrasts of black and white to enhance different dimensions and integrated into his works were mirror images of cones, spheres, cubes, rings and spirals.

By the 1950s Escher had become highly popular and gave lectures around the world. He received the Order of Oranje Nassau in 1955. In 1958 he was featured in Time magazine and had his first important exhibition in Washington. Escher’s work continued to be popular and he traveled several times to North America for lectures and to see his son George who was living in Canada. In 1970 he moved to Rosa-Spier house in Laren, Netherlands, a retirement home for artists, where he died on March 27, 1972.

I remember as a teenager being amazed by M.C. Escher after receiving a book of his drawings.  At that time, I was more interested in how cool the optical illusions were.  These days, my appreciation for his work goes deeper than that.  I am in awe of the skill and imagination it would have taken to create the drawings.  His ability to create works of art that master perspective and dimension, reality and fantasy, make him (in my view) one of the greatest graphic artists of all time.

For more information on M.C. Escher visit MCEscher.com or for a more in depth biography visit The Escher Pages.

Relativity - M.C. Escher

Sources: MCEscher.com, Erols.com, Wikipedia

Filed Under: ART, Art History, Design, Illustration Tagged With: Dutch artists, M.C. Escher

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