Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney

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Codell, Julie. 1989a. ‘The Artist’s Cause at Heart’: Marion Harry Spielmann and the Late Victorian Art World. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 71: 139–63. [ Google Scholar] [ CrossRef][ Green Version]

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That I have not liked your notices of me for a considerable time is true, more especially of my ‘Jacob’ this spring, which (if a lady friend who informed me, was correct) curtly stated that I had just finished two pictures ‘ not for the R. A.’, a sort of notice calculated to injure me exceedingly with those touchy gentlemen … I never authorised anyone to trouble you on the subject and you know it is quite contrary to my principles to complain or in anyway interfere with your liberty …. I will never be offended with you whatever annoyance I may feel at your remarks in print unless I were to think they were intended to offend or done in spite. 63 Born in 1475, Michelangelo was less interested in formal schooling and more interested in church paintings from an early age. By the time he was thirteen, he began an apprenticeship with Domenico Ghirlandaio. From Fiona Tan’s representational films to Idris Khan’s abstract paintings and drawings, here are five top shows to see this week. Read more To make it easier for you to follow, I grouped them by the 15 typography artists that made it all possible. 1. Peter Strain’s Posters

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I refer to collections in the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester (M. H. Spielmann collection), the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford (Stephens collection, Isidore Spielmann collection, Hunt correspondence), the National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, and individual artists’ archives. Henri Matisse was born in 1869 in the North of France and is known as being one of the leading members of the Fauvist art movement of the early twentieth century. Throughout his life, he changed techniques several different times, making it difficult to pinpoint what his trademark style was.