Elisabeth Louise Vigee LeBrun Forever!

June 24th, 2010 Darren Daz Cox Posted in Art History, Elisabeth Louise Vigee LeBrun, Leonardo, Michelangelo, My life, Vasari, antique, creative energy, figure, fine art, kawaii, love, painting, pose, romance, the art world, writing on art, かわいい, はしゃぐ | No Comments »

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Self portrait of Elisabeth Louise Vigee LeBrun and her daughter Julie

I love Elisabeth Louise Vigee LeBrun, well, I love her art and how her life inspires me, she’s actually been dead for a couple hundred years and heck, for all I know I might be a reincarnation of her, a hairy hetero manly macho version that is haha! She lived from 1755 until 1852.

Madame Vigée Le Brun brought out the beauty in all her subjects, she painted to inspire and to make people happy.

Many people have been conditioned to accept that Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Mona Lisa is epotome of portrature but it’s a little clunky and enigmatic for my taste compared to much of the work by the prolific genius of Elisabeth Louise Vigee LeBrun.

Leonardo was a lot of things, a lot of good things but he was also a nemisis to my hero Michaelangelo and to Mikes student, and number one fan, Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) who literally wrote the first (modern) art history book, one that we have used ever since as the closest – albiet wonderfully biased glimpse into the lives of the artists.

I am a dreamer and a romantic in the classical sense, and suffered from the sin of day dreaming in school, heck I still day dream constantly and while it doesn’t make me money, it does allow me to fully appreciate the inspiration I allow myself to savor.

Art should inspire and be appreciated rather than be quantified and scientifically explained in a list of what the artist did and who they did it for (yawn) I’m sorry, but a CV/resume is so pointless for an artist in my opinion, if you have to have a list of stuff you’ve done to convince someone that you are a great artist then you’re obviously too busy primping yourself to actually work on your art and therefore you are, like leonardo, a dandy and probably, like Leonardo, wear fine velvet robes instead of keeping your shoes on for weeks at a time like Michaelangelo! That’s a metaphor but it’s literal too.

anyway, here’s a wonderful painting by Elisabeth Louise Vigee LeBrun, she was one of the painters in the court of marie Antoinette if you want to have a general time frame for the life time when this was done.

Elisabeth Louise Vigee LeBrun painting

Bather by Elisabeth Louise Vigee LeBrun the model was her daughter Julie

Go to the link below for a website with tons of information and the lovely art of Elisabeth Louise Vigee LeBrun

http://www.batguano.com/vigee.html

her autobiography is also available for free in it’s entirity, and it’s worth a look!

I will begin by speaking of my childhood, which is the symbol, so to say, of my whole life, since my love for painting declared itself in my earliest youth. I was sent to a boarding-school at the age of six, and remained there until I was eleven. During that time I scrawled on everything at all seasons; my copy-books, and even my schoolmates’, I decorated with marginal drawings of heads, some full-face, others in profile; on the walls of the dormitory I drew faces and landscapes with coloured chalks. So it may easily be imagined how often I was condemned to bread and water. I made use of my leisure moments outdoors in tracing any figures on the ground that happened to come into my head. At seven or eight, I remember, I made a picture by lamplight of a man with a beard, which I have kept until this very day. When my father saw it he went into transports of joy, exclaiming, "You will be a painter, child, if ever there was one!"

I mention these facts to show what an inborn passion for the art I possessed. Nor has that passion ever diminished; it seems to me that it has even gone on growing with time, for to-day I feel under the spell of it as much as ever, and shall, I hope, until the hour of death. It is, indeed, to this divine passion that I owe, not only my fortune, but my felicity, because it has always been the means of bringing me together with the most delightful and most distinguished men and women in Europe. The recollection of all the notable people I have known often cheers me in times of solitude.

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Originally posted 2009-02-23 09:45:27. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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