Blue Boy And Pinkie
- In terms of the show, Finn is a Blue Boy to the Pink Girl Bubblegum. Also red/yellow flame Princess. Also, Ice King and Princess Bubblegum. Inverted in 'Fionna and Cake', however, which has Fionna as the Blue Girl to Prince Gumball's Pink Boy. Subverted in Arthur as two of Arthur's classmates, Buster and Maria, wear both pink and blue.
- The Blue Boy (c. 1770) is a full-length portrait in oil by Thomas Gainsborough, now at the Huntington Library, San Marino. Pinkie (painting) External links.
| The Blue Boy | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Thomas Gainsborough |
| Year | c. 1770 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Movement | Rococo |
| Dimensions | 177.8 cm × 112.1 cm (70.0 in × 44.1 in) |
| Location | Henry E. Huntington Art Gallery[1], San Marino, California |
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The Blue Boy (c. 1770) is a full-length portrait in oil by Thomas Gainsborough, now at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.[2]
Great for anyone who would like a small researched history of only two paintings; that of which are 'Pinkie and Blue Boy' in the Huntington collection. I had already known some of the information from the audio tour as well. If you ever go to a museum, they are well worth it. The book covers short briefs on the lives of the painters. Pinkie Meets Blue Boy is a contemporary interpretation of the 18th century paintings by Thomas Gainsborough and Thomas Lawrence. The same person plays both characters, with the feminine Pinkie on the left, and masculine Blue Boy on the right.
History[edit]
Perhaps Gainsborough's most famous work, it is thought to be a portrait of Jonathan Buttle (1752–1805), the son of a wealthy hardware merchant, although this has never been proven. It is a historical costume study as well as a portrait: the youth in his seventeenth-century apparel is regarded as Gainsborough's homage to Anthony van Dyck, and in particular is very close to Van Dyck's portraits of Charles II as a boy.
Gainsborough had already drawn something on the canvas before beginning The Blue Boy, which he painted over. The painting is about life-size, measuring 48 inches (1,200 mm) wide by 70 inches (1,800 mm) tall. Gainsborough painted the portrait in response to the advice of his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds,[3] who had written:
It ought, in my opinion, to be indispensably observed, that the masses of light in a picture be always of a warm, mellow colour, yellow, red, or a yellowish white, and that the blue, the grey, or the green colours be kept almost entirely out of these masses, and be used only to support or set off these warm colours; and for this purpose, a small proportion of cold colour will be sufficient. Let this conduct be reversed; let the light be cold, and the surrounding colour warm, as we often see in the works of the Roman and Florentine painters, and it will be out of the power of art, even in the hands of Rubens and Titian, to make a picture splendid and harmonious.[3]
The painting was in Jonathan Buttle's possession until he filed for bankruptcy in 1796. It was bought first by the politician John Nesbitt and then, in 1802, by the portrait painter John Hoppner. In about 1809, The Blue Boy entered the collection of the Earl Grosvenor and remained with his descendants until its sale by the second Duke of Westminster to the dealer Joseph Duveen in 1921.[4] By then, it had become a great popular favourite in print reproductions, after being exhibited to the public in various exhibitions at the British Institution, Royal Academy, and elsewhere.
In 1919, the painting inspired German film producer Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau to create his debut film Knabe in Blau (The Boy in Blue).[5]
In a move that caused a public outcry in Britain, it was then sold to the American railway pioneer Henry Edwards Huntington for $728,800 (£182,200), according to Duveen's bill,[6] a then-record price for any painting. According to a mention in The New York Times, dated 11 November 1921, the purchase price was $640,000, which would be $9.17 million in 2019.[7]
Before its departure to California in 1922, The Blue Boy was briefly put on display at the National Gallery where it was seen by 90,000 people; the Gallery's director Charles Holmes was moved to scrawl farewell words on the back of the painting: 'Au Revoir, C.H.'[8]
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It was this painting that moved pop artist Robert Rauschenberg toward painting.[9] It is often paired with a painting by Thomas Lawrence called Pinkie which sits opposite to it at the Huntington Library.
References[edit]
Citations[edit]
- ^Children's Encyclopædia Britannica. 8. London. 1969. p. 12; see plate.
- ^'Jonathan Buttal: The Blue Boy (c 1770)'. The Huntington Library. Archived from the original on 19 June 2010. Retrieved 7 December 2009.
- ^ abGower, Ronald Sutherland (1903). Thomas Gainsborough. G. Bell and Sons. pp. 77–78. Retrieved 2 October 2012 – via Google Books.
- ^'Duveens offer a Reynolds to Louvre'. New York Times. 19 October 1921.
- ^Bock, Hans-Michael (2009). Hans-Michael Bock, Tim Bergfelder (ed.). The concise Cinegraph: encyclopaedia of German cinema. Berghahn Books. p. 334. ISBN978-1-57181-655-9.
- ^Thorpe, James Ernest, Henry Edwards Huntington, A Biography, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994, p. 438.
- ^'WolframAlpha conversion'.
- ^''Blue Boy's' Transfer Begins in Secrecy'(PDF). The New York Times. 26 January 1922. Retrieved 7 December 2009.
- ^Tuchman, Phyllis (16 May 2008). 'The Invincible Robert Rauschenberg'. Obit Magazine. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
Further reading[edit]
- Conisbee, Philip (2003). 'The Ones That Got Away'. In Verdi, Richard (ed.). Saved! 100 Years of the National Art Collection Fund. London: Scala.
- Conlin, Jonathan (2006). The Nation's Mantelpiece: A history of the National Gallery. London: Pallas Athene.
- Thicknesse, Philip (1790). Life of Sir Thomas Gainsborough.
- Tyler, David (2004). 'Jonathan Buttall'. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
Media related to The Blue Boy at Wikimedia Commons
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