Click2Flicks - Miss Potter - Chapter 4 - Artistic Influences

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b><i>MISS POTTER</i></p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 4 - ARTISTIC INFLUENCES</font></font></b></p> </div> <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">From an early age, Beatrix liked to draw. Because of her father’s interest in photography, she met artists like <a target="_blank" href="images/John_Everett_Millais.jpg"><b>John Everett Millais</b></a>, whom Rupert <a target="_blank" href="images/photographed_rupert_potter_millais_II-246.jpg"><b>photographed</b></a> (on the left) at the Potter’s rented summer home, Dalguise, in 1879. (<a href="http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRbright.htm" target="_blank"><b>John Bright</b></a>, the famous orator and member of Parliament, is with him.)</p> <p>Millais - according to <a target="_blank" href="images/beatrix_journal.jpg"><b>Beatrix’s journal</b></a> - encouraged her, frequently complimenting her "keen observations." (<i>Beatrix Potter Journal</i>, page 460.) How meaningful such comments, from a <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=379&page=1" target="_blank"><b>well-known artist</b></a>, must have been!</p> <p>Beatrix said she was also influenced by <a target="_blank" href="images/caldecott.gif"><b>Randolph Caldecott</b></a>, whose <a target="_blank" href="images/amazing_illustrations.jpg"><b>amazing</b></a> <b><a target="_blank" href="images/illustrations.jpg">illustrations</a></b> were published by Frederick Warne & Company (and whose <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18360/18360-h/18360-h.htm" target="_blank"><b>work is available</b></a>, on-line, thanks to Project Gutenberg). It is interesting to examine some of <a href="http://www.randolphcaldecott.org.uk/beatrix.htm" target="_blank"><b>Caldecott’s drawings</b></a> in light of Beatrix’s later books. From <b><i><a target="_blank" href="images/a_frog_he_would.jpg">A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go</a></i></b>:</p><ul> <li>"Whether <a target="_blank" href="images/his_mother.jpg"><b>his Mother</b></a> would let him or no." </li><br><br> <li>"Pray, <a target="_blank" href="images/mr_frog.jpg"><b>Mr. FROG</b></a>, will you give us a song?" </li><br><br> <li>"A <a target="_blank" href="images/cat_and_her_kittens.jpg"><b>Cat and her Kittens</b></a> came tumbling in." </li><br><br> <li>"<a target="_blank" href="images/the_kittens.gif"><b>The Kittens</b></a> they pulled the little Mouse down." </li><br><br> <li>"But as <a target="_blank" href="images/froggy.gif"><b>Froggy</b></a> was crossing a silvery brook" </li><br><br> <li>"A <a target="_blank" href="images/lily_white_duck.jpg"><b>lily-white Duck</b></a> came and gobbled him up." </li></ul> <p align="justify">Although Caldecott also <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14081/14081-h/14081-h.htm" target="_blank"><b>included people</b></a> in his drawings, Beatrix thought she was never good at that. Her illustrations were <a target="_blank" href="images/based_on_nature.jpg"><b>based on nature</b></a>, as Linda Lear discusses in <a target="_blank" href="images/beatrix_potter_life.jpg"><b><i>Beatrix Potter, A Life in Nature</i></b></a>.</p> <p>What made Beatrix Potter a painter of nature? How did she approach her subject matter? Was she influenced by any naturalists who encouraged her work?</p> </div> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><a href="miss_potter_ch3.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="miss_potter_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>   <a href="miss_potter_ch5.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </td> </tr> </table>  </td>  <td align="center" valign="top"> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.awesomestories.com/includes/ad_format.js"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </td>  </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>