Dot com or the freedom. Masterpieces of art are a window on the past by studying them we encounter long gone eras through the artists eyes. One subject in particular has always played a special role in the history of painting childhood. How has it changed the artists view of the child. From john folkways iconic graphic representation of jesus as an infant. To elisabetta vision a liberals tender selfportrait with her beloved daughter. From the four lauren gaze of this girl selling flowers on the streets of london. To this image of a child whom the painter felix fellow tall affords the freedom of turning its back on the viewer. From der to van dyke from diego to laskas to renoir miro and picasso across europe from the middle ages to the Twentieth Century works by western masters reflect the changing status of the child through the ages. In the one thousand. Sixty nine because so painted a child who appears to be staking his claim to existence overpowering the artist by snatching his brus
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Of that was not bribery or quid pro quo money under the table. Intereststing special ahead of the common good, and by america is an massively corrupt place. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspan2 a day. Coming up next on American History tv, equal visibility everywhere president lynette long talks about the depictions of women court women historical figures. She spoke in an event celebrating historical equality day. It runs about 45 minutes. I am excited to introduce dr. Lynette long, equal visibility everywhere. She has spent her entire career fighting for in doing research on womens issues, sexism, and television programming. The impact of toy selection, and gender bias, google doodles, memorials, some of the things we overlook and take for granted. She has done extensive work. She is currently working on a merely a air art on amelia ehrhardt. She would like to see a statue representing the state of florida in the collection. Dr. Long is also interested in the sexism that impa
Again as we go forward. The painting became as i wrote in my notes it became an engraving. Edward savage wrote about that and actually told washington he made 10,000 dollars dollars on it. I think that was almost cheeky of savage to say that he was making money on washington. But this picture and washington ordered four engravings, you can see one of them at mount vernon. Ill love to think about that when im at met mount vernon. I going to the breakfast room and there is George Washington and his family looking down on the table where George Washington and his family used to take their breakfast. Its almost like the morton salt girl going down. I do think its a magnificent thing graving. An extremely important in the history of the country. It was popular because this picture represented what the picture was. We will have more to talk about and that painting in a minute. We have to talk about what washington was up against. His chief desire was to put the capital, the seat of governess
Which you could have in europe you would be a valuable acquisition to the art and one of theirst painters in e world, provided you could receive these aids before it is too late in life, and before your manner and taste were corrupted or fixed by working in your little way at boston. Narrator an impressive letter to a young painter and from the distinguished sir joshua reynolds. Could he be right . harpsichord continues John Singleton copley loved his country, but he wanted the richer artistic influences of the old world. Besides, talk of revolution was everywhere. Political contests, he felt, were neither pleasing to an artist nor advantageous to art itself. In 1774, copley left; it would make him a better painter, he thought. Sad for him, sad for america he never returned to his home. At 34, John Singleton copley was already one of the best and most popular painters in the american colonies. The Young American artist John Trumbull said of him, an elegantlooking man dressed in fine ma