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[artists19thcentury]

Camille Pissarro, July 10, 1830, Saint-Thomas des Antilles

Camille Pissarro, July 10, 1830, 12:00 PM (Unknown), Saint-Thomas des Antilles, 18°n20'00, 64°w55'00, Geocentric, Tropical, Equal Sun on 1st, True Node

Sun in Cancer trine Cyllarus (artistic work that comes from full expression, such as painting with the hands, musical skill, culinary ability (helped establish a collective society of fifteen aspiring artists, becoming the "pivotal" figure in holding the group together)) in Scorpio. Mercury in Gemini square & Uranus in Aquarius sesquiquadrate Echeclus (conceptual theories, spatial relations (they began to reject the dark tones of the typical salon painting and came to the viewpoint that light was more important than form)) in Virgo.

"I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!"

Camille Pissarro (10 July 1830 – 13 November 1903) was a Danish-French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas (now in the US Virgin Islands, but then in the Danish West Indies). His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Pissarro studied from great forerunners, including Gustave Courbet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. He later studied and worked alongside Georges Seurat and Paul Signac when he took on the Neo-Impressionist style at the age of 54.

In 1873 he helped establish a collective society of fifteen aspiring artists, becoming the "pivotal" figure in holding the group together and encouraging the other members. Art historian John Rewald called Pissarro the "dean of the Impressionist painters", not only because he was the oldest of the group, but also "by virtue of his wisdom and his balanced, kind, and warmhearted personality".[1] Paul Cézanne said "he was a father for me. A man to consult and a little like the good Lord", and he was also one of Paul Gauguin's masters. Pierre-Auguste Renoir referred to his work as "revolutionary", through his artistic portrayals of the "common man", as Pissarro insisted on painting individuals in natural settings without "artifice or grandeur".

Pissarro is the only artist to have shown his work at all eight Paris Impressionist exhibitions, from 1874 to 1886. He "acted as a father figure not only to the Impressionists" but to all four of the major Post-Impressionists, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and van Gogh.

Pissarro's Legacy As The "Father Of Impressionism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx-d34fu_i8

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Claude Monet, November 14, 1840, Paris, France

Claude Monet, November 14, 1840, 12:00 PM (Unknown), Paris, France, 2e20'00, 48n52'00, Geocentric, Tropical, Equal Sun on 1st, True Node

Sun conjunct Jupiter in Scorpio sextile Echeclus (conceptual theories, spatial relations (for Monet, the whole painting had to be produced within the whole light scheme)) in Capricorn, square Eris (personal sense of emergence (radical new approach to painting)) in Aquarius.

"It’s on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly."

Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting.

Monet was raised in Le Havre, Normandy, and became interested in the outdoors and drawing from an early age. Although his mother, Louise-Justine Aubrée Monet, supported his ambitions to be a painter, his father, Claude-Adolphe, disapproved and wanted him to pursue a career in business. He was very close to his mother, but she died in January 1857 when he was sixteen years old, and he was sent to live with his childless, widowed but wealthy aunt, Marie-Jeanne Lecadre. He went on to study at the Académie Suisse, and under the academic history painter Charles Gleyre, where he was a classmate of Auguste Renoir. His early works include landscapes, seascapes, and portraits, but attracted little attention. A key early influence was Eugène Boudin, who introduced him to the concept of plein air painting. From 1883, Monet lived in Giverny, also in northern France, where he purchased a house and property and began a vast landscaping project, including a water-lily pond.

Monet's ambition to document the French countryside led to a method of painting the same scene many times so as to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. Among the best-known examples are his series of haystacks (1890–1891), paintings of Rouen Cathedral (1892–1894), and the paintings of water lilies in his garden in Giverny, which occupied him for the last 20 years of his life. Frequently exhibited and successful during his lifetime, Monet's fame and popularity soared in the second half of the 20th century when he became one of the world's most famous painters and a source of inspiration for a burgeoning group of artists.

How Claude Monet Transformed French Painting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVQSZ7Rvs2c

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Édouard Manet, January 23, 1832, Paris, France

Édouard Manet, January 23, 1832, 7:00 PM, LMT -00:09:20, Paris, France, 2e20'00, 48n52'00, Geocentric, Tropical, Placidus, True Node

Sun in Aquarius sextile Cyllarus in Sagittarius (artistic work that comes from full expression, such as painting with the hands, musical skill, culinary ability (during his schooldays he'd shown a talent for drawing, therefore in 1849 Édouard's wealthy father made available the funds to train as an artist)) trine Echeclus (conceptual theories, spatial relations (I no longer want to paint classical paintings, I want to be a modern contemporary artist, and this is a modern subject)) in Libra, sextile Pelion (job recognition, awards and accolades (the portrait of Rochford was not only accepted by the salon but awarded a medal)) in Aries.

"I paint as I feel like painting; to hell with all their studies."

Édouard Manet (23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.

Born into an upper-class household with strong political connections, Manet rejected the naval career originally envisioned for him; he became engrossed in the world of painting. His early masterworks, The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe) and Olympia, premiering in 1863 and '65, respectively, caused great controversy with both critics and the Academy of Fine Arts, but soon were praised by progressive artists as the breakthrough acts to the new style, Impressionism. These works, along with others, are considered watershed paintings that mark the start of modern art. The last 20 years of Manet's life saw him form bonds with other great artists of the time; he developed his own simple and direct style that would be heralded as innovative and serve as a major influence for future painters.

How Impressionism's Most Controversial Artist Craved Notoriety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syNcfltwXgU

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Wassily Vasilyevich Kandinsky, 4 December 1866, Moscow

Wassily Vasilyevich Kandinsky, 4 December 1866 Jul.Cal. (16 Dec 1866 greg.) 05:58 (= 05:58 AM ), Moscow, Russian Federation.

Venus in Sagittarius sextile Echeclus (abstract art, conceptual theories, spatial relations (one of the founders of abstract art)) in Libra.

"The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning".

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat—Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

In 1896, Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe’s private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. Kandinsky was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Communist Moscow, and returned to Germany in 1920. There, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.

Wassily Kandinsky, the Master of Abstract Art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up5mQEemEU8

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Pablo Picasso, October 25, 1881, Malaga, Spain

Pablo Picasso, October 25, 1881, 111:15:00 PM, LMT +00:17:40, Malaga, Spain, 4w25'00, 36n43'00, Geocentric, Tropical, Placidus, True Node, AA: Written Rec, Acc: 5 minutes

Sun in Scorpio trine Echeclus (abstract art, conceptual theories, spatial relations) in Cancer sesquiquadrate Eris (things that overturn (revolutionary artistic accomplishments, invented a new way of capturing a portrait on canvas freed from a realism that could be left to photography)) in Pisces, quintile Daedalus in Leo.

“That inspiration comes, does not depend on me. The only thing I can do is make sure it catches me working “

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore.

Beginning his formal training under his father José Ruiz y Blasco aged seven, Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent from a young age, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimented with different theories, techniques, and ideas. After 1906, the Fauvist work of the older artist Henri Matisse motivated Picasso to explore more radical styles, beginning a fruitful rivalry between the two artists, who subsequently were often paired by critics as the leaders of modern art.

Picasso's output, especially in his early career, is often periodized. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919), also referred to as the Crystal period. Much of Picasso's work of the late 1910s and early 1920s is in a neoclassical style, and his work in the mid-1920s often has characteristics of Surrealism. His later work often combines elements of his earlier styles.

Exceptionally prolific throughout the course of his long life, Picasso achieved universal renown and immense fortune for his revolutionary artistic accomplishments, and became one of the best-known figures in 20th-century art.

The Turbulent Life Of Pablo Picasso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtLOzMXb42E

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Joe Rogan Experience #1631 – Brian Greene

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Centaur, TNO & Asteroid Aspectarian

Centaur, TNO & Asteroid Aspectarian Thursday 8 April 2021 

08:24:06 UT - Echeclus (26 ge 11'41") conjunct Chaos (26 ge 11'41") 03:08:30 UT - Waning Crescent Moon - Sun (18 ar 30'31") semi-square Moon (3 pi 30'31") 08:19:38 UT - Mercury (7 ar 41'44") opposite Logos (7 li 41'44" Rx) 12:32:48 UT - Echeclus (26 ge 46'18") opposite Galactic Center (27 sa 8'48") 

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Andy Kaufman, January 17, 1949, Jamaica, New York, United States

Andy Kaufman, January 17, 1949, 6:03 PM, Jamaica, New York, USA, 73w48'22, 40n41'29, Geocentric, Tropical, Placidus, True Node

Sun in Capricorn trine Echeclus (abstract, conceptual) in Gemini square Saturn in Virgo, sesquiquadrate Neptune in Libra.

“What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.”

Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman, (January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984) was an American comedian, singer, musician, entertainer, actor, wrestler, and performance artist. While often called a comedian, Kaufman described himself instead as a “song and dance man”. He has sometimes been called an “anti-comedian”. He disdained telling jokes and engaging in comedy as it was traditionally understood, once saying in a rare introspective interview, “I am not a comic, I have never told a joke. … The comedian’s promise is that he will go out there and make you laugh with him… My only promise is that I will try to entertain you as best I can.”

After working in small comedy clubs in the early 1970s, Kaufman came to the attention of a wider audience in 1975, when he was invited to perform portions of his act on the first season of Saturday Night Live. His Foreign Man character was the basis of his performance as Latka Gravas on the hit television show Taxi from 1978 until 1983. During this time, he continued to tour comedy clubs and theaters in a series of unique performance art / comedy shows, sometimes appearing as himself and sometimes as obnoxiously rude lounge singer Tony Clifton. He was also a frequent guest on sketch comedy and late-night talk shows, particularly Late Night with David Letterman. In 1982, Kaufman brought his professional wrestling villain act to Letterman’s show by way of a staged encounter with Jerry “The King” Lawler of the Continental Wrestling Association (although the fact that the altercation was planned was not publicly disclosed for over a decade).

Kaufman died of lung cancer in 1984, at the age of 35. Because pranks and elaborate ruses were major elements of his career, persistent rumors have circulated that Kaufman faked his own death as a grand hoax. He continues to be respected for the variety of his characters, his uniquely counterintuitive approach to comedy, and his willingness to provoke negative and confused reactions from audiences.

Andy Kaufman at The Improv, New York https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNyWC8Cr9j0

Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx to Tour, Years After Death, as Holograms https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/24/arts/andy-kaufman-and-redd-foxx-to-tour-years-after-death.html

Tony Clifton is a character created by comedian and performance artist Andy Kaufman in the late 1970s. Characteristic of the many elaborate hoaxes and practical jokes Kaufman concocted, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Clifton

Tony Clifton Tells a Hilarious Joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPxrqQEYRMI

Andy Kaufman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Kaufman