The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe

Author:Sue Roe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

Draw all kinds of everyday objects placed…in such a way that they have in them the life of the man or woman–corsets that have just been removed, for example, and which retain the form of the body…

…Do a series in aquatint on mourning, different blacks–black veils of deep mourning floating on the face–black gloves–mourning carriages, undertakers’ vehicles–carriages like Venetian gondolas.

On smoke–smokers’ smoke, pipes, cigarettes, cigars–smoke from locomotives, from tall factory chimneys, from steam boats etc…

On evening–infinite variety of subjects in cafés–different tones of the glass globes reflected in the mirrors.

On bakery, bread. Series on bakers’ boys, seen in the cellar itself or through the basement windows from the street–backs the colour of pink flour–beautiful curves of dough–still lifes of different breads, large, oval, long, round, etc. Studies in colour of the yellows, pinks, greys, whites of bread…

Neither monuments nor houses have ever been done from below, close up as they appear when you walk down the street…

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