“Who said one paints with colors? One employs colors, but one paints with feeling.”
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Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Jean Siméon Chardin was an 18th-century French painter. He is considered a master of still life, and is also noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maids, children, and domestic activities. Carefully balanced composition, soft diffusion of light, and granular impasto characterize his work.
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culture · French painter (1699–1779) · painter · visual artist · also Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Jean Siméon Chardin, Jean Simeon Chardin, Jean-Siméon Chardin, Simon Sharden, Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin
Born 2 November 1699 · Died 6 December 1779 · Q207447
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2015· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
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1999· 1 entry
Lucian Freud painted and etched several copies after The Young Schoolmistress (National Gallery, London)
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1995· 1 entry
“They were renewed by love. The heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.”
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1981· 1 entry
“The Pleasure of Finding Things Out”
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1978· 1 entry
“There have been women I have loved … A lot, as discreetly as possible.”
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1975· 1 entry
“There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio: What is sacred? Of what is spirit made? What is worth living for? What is worth dying for? The answer to each is only love.”
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1974· 1 entry
“Address at Dedication of Wheaton College Library, 1973”
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1963· 1 entry
“Life Ahead : On Learning and the Search for Meaning”
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1958· 1 entry
“being to timelessness as it's to time”
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1870· 1 entry
“Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do.”
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1817· 1 entry
“When I have fears that I may cease to be”
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1779· 1 entry
Died 1779-12-06.
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1699· 1 entry
Born 1699-11-02.
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1584· 1 entry
“A Handful of Pleasant Deities”
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