Childe Hassam | Paris painting

In 1886, American painter Childe Hassam (1859-1935)🎨 had moved to France to study figure drawing and painting at the prestigious Académie Julian.

He took advantage of the formal drawing classes with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre🎨, but quickly moved on to self-study, finding that "the Julian academy is the personification of routine...[academic training] crushes all originality out of growing men. It tends to put them in a rut and it keeps them in it", preferring instead, "my own method in the same degree".

Childe Hassam | City Street Scenes

Frederick Childe Hassam [1859-1935]🎨 was an American painter🎨, noted for his urban and coastal scenes.

Along with Mary Cassatt 1844-1926🎨 and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impressionism🎨 to American collectors, dealers, and museums.

Childe Hassam | Portraits / Figures

Childe Hassam, in full Frederick Childe Hassam, (born Oct. 17, 1859, Boston, Mass., U.S. - died Aug. 27, 1935, East Hampton, N.Y.), painter and printmaker, one of the foremost exponents of French Impressionism in American art.

Hassam studied in Boston and Paris (1886-89), where he fell under the influence of the Impressionists and took to painting in brilliant colour with touches of pure pigment. On his return from Paris he settled in New York City, where he became a member of the group known as The Ten.

George Inness | Quotes / Aforismi | Page²

• The greatness of art is not in the display of knowledge, or in material accuracy, but in the distinctness with which it conveys the impressions of a personal vital force, that acts spontaneously, without fear or hesitation.

• La grandezza dell'arte non è nell'esposizione della conoscenza, né nella precisione materiale, ma nella distinzione con cui trasmette le impressioni di una forza vitale personale, che agisce spontaneamente, senza paura o esitazione.

• You must suggest to me reality - you can never show me reality.

• Devi suggerirmi la realtà - non puoi mai mostrarmi la realtà.

Rabindranath Tagore | Metaphorical painter | 120 artworks | Page.³

Day by day I float my paper boats

one by one down the running stream.

In big black letters I write my name on them

and the name of the village where I live.

I hope that someone in some strange land

will find them and know who I am.

I load my little boats with shiuli flowers

from our garden, and hope that these blooms of the dawn

will be carried safely to land in the night.