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S'està carregant… PAINTING AS A PASTIME (1948 original; edició 1950)de Sir Winston S. Churchill
Informació de l'obraPainting as a Pastime de Winston S. Churchill (1948)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. A nice little gem of a book. ( ) A lively essay on the necessity & functions of a pastime. On reading in a second language: "Choose well, choose wisely, and choose one. Concentrate upon that one. Do not be content until you find yourself reading it with real enjoyment." Later we learn that "painting is a friend who makes no undue demands, excited to no exhausting pursuits, keeps faithful pace even with feeble steps, and holds her canvas as a screen between us and the envious eyes of Time or the surly advance of Decrepitude." Of his love of color: "When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting....But then it shall require a still gayer palette than I get here below. I expect orange and vermilion will be the darkest, dullest colours upon it, and beyond them there will be a whole range of wonderful new colours which will delight the celestial eye." A lively essay on the necessity & functions of a pastime. On reading in a second language: "Choose well, choose wisely, and choose one. Concentrate upon that one. Do not be content until you find yourself reading it with real enjoyment." Later we learn that "painting is a friend who makes no undue demands, excited to no exhausting pursuits, keeps faithful pace even with feeble steps, and holds her canvas as a screen between us and the envious eyes of Time or the surly advance of Decrepitude." Of his love of color: "When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting....But then it shall require a still gayer palette than I get here below. I expect orange and vermilion will be the darkest, dullest colours upon it, and beyond them there will be a whole range of wonderful new colours which will delight the celestial eye." Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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The perfect antidote to his 'Black Dog', a depression that blighted his working life, Churchill took to painting with gusto. Picking up a paintbrush for the first time at the age of forty, Winston Churchill found in painting a passion that was to remain his constant companion. This glorious essay exudes his compulsion for a hobby that allowed him peace during his dark days, and richly rewarded a nation with a treasure trove of work. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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