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Charles Sillem Lidderdale


Charles Sillem Lidderdale (28 septembre 1830 à Saint-Pétersbourg - 7 juin 1895 à Hampstead, Londres) est un portraitiste britannique.

Lidderdale est né comme fils aîné de John Lidderdale (1752-1845), banquier écossais de la banque Aberdeen travaillant à Saint-Pétersbourg, où il a été baptisé la même année à l'église anglicane de la rive anglaise. Il est parti en Angleterre dans les années 1840. Son père est décédé en 1845 à Saint-Pétersbourg peu après s'être remis de la faillite de la banque.

Lidderdale a commencé sa carrière de portraitiste au milieu des années 1850 et a exposé pour la première fois en 1856 à la Royal Academy of Arts de Londres, où il a exposé 36 tableaux au cours des années suivantes jusqu'en 1893. En 1858, il épousa Kazie Morris à Pancras, à Londres. Le couple eut un fils et trois filles dans les années qui suivirent. Le peintre était membre de l'association artistique British Institution et de la Royal Society of British Artists. Il a été enterré au cimetière londonien de Kensal Green Cemetery.





Milton Friedman: The problem in this world is to avoid concentration of power - we must have a dispersion of power. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5545


Quotes

  • Lenin: Miraculous prophecy is a fairy-tale. But scientific prophecy is a fact.
  • Noam Chomsky: See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.
  • George Bernard Shaw: Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
  • Henry Kissinger: Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
  • Fidel Castro: This position of the Trotskyists is the same which all newspapers and publicity agencies of Yankee imperialism adopted in relation to the cause of Comrade Ernesto Guevara. All the imperialist press of the United States, its news agencies, the Cuban counter-revolutionaries' press, the bourgeois press throughout the continent and the rest of the world - in other words, this campaign of slanders and intrigues against revolutionary Cuba in connection with the case of Comrade Guevara - coincided with precision with all imperialist bourgeois sectors, all the slanderers and all the conspirators against the Cuban revolution, for there is no doubt that only reaction and imperialism is interested in discrediting the Cuban revolution and in destroying the confidence of the revolutionary movements in the Cuban revolution, in destroying the confidence of the Latin American peoples in the Cuban revolution, in destroying their faith. Therefore, they have not hesitated to use the dirtiest and most indecent weapons.
  • Fidel Castro: Even though at one time Trotskyism represented an erroneous position, but a position in the field of political ideas, Trotskyism became during the following years a vulgar instrument of imperialism and reaction.
  • Fidel Castro: Yon Sosa led the movement of a group of armed officers in the crushing of whom the mercenaries who later invaded Playa Girón participated. Through a businessman who took charge of the movement's political aspects, the Fourth International fixed it up so that that leader, who was ignorant of the profound problems of politics and of the history of revolutionary thought, would permit that agents of Trotskyism, about whom we do not have the slightest doubt that he is an agent of imperialism, to publish a newspaper which copies outright the program of the Fourth International. By doing this, the Fourth International committed a real crime against the revolutionary movement to isolate it from the rest of the people, to isolate it from the masses, when it contaminated it with the stupidities, the discredit, and the repugnant thing which Trotskyism today is in the field of politics.
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.: So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: It is the beginning of the end.
  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: Financiers flourish only when nations decline.
  • George Friedman: The primordial interest of the United States, over which for centuries we have fought wars– the First, the Second and Cold Wars– has been the relationship between Germany and Russia, because united there, they’re the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn’t happen.
  • Lenin: Prompted by fear of revolution, the old state power, which is independent of the people and is a power over the people, promises the people that it will ensure their freedom. But its promises remain unfulfilled; they cannot be fulfilled.
  • James Connolly: If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic, your efforts would be in vain.
  • Lenin: There are moments in history when a desperate struggle of the masses, even for a hopeless cause, is essential for the further schooling of these masses and their training for the next struggle.
  • Kim Il Sung: Our ideal is to build a society where everyone is well fed, well clothed, and lives a long life, a society where everybody is progressive and works devotedly, a society where all people live united in harmony as one big family.
  • Michael Parenti: To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.
  • Edward Snowden: There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war.
  • Lenin: Practice is higher than (theoretical) knowledge, for it has not only the dignity of universality, but also of immediate actuality.
  • Stalin: Only in the highest phase of communism will people, working in accordance with their capacity, receive recompense therefor in accordance with their needs: "From each according to his capacity, to each according to his needs."
  • Stalin: All that Marxism declares is that until classes have been completely abolished, and until work has been transformed from being a means of maintaining existence, into a prime necessity of life, into voluntary labour performed for the benefit of society, people will continue to be paid for their labour in accordance with the amount of labour performed.
  • Stalin: The October Revolution is neither the continuation nor the culmination of the Great French Revolution. The purpose of the French Revolution was to put an end to feudalism and establish capitalism. The aim of the October Revolution is to put an end to capitalism and to establish socialism.
  • Lenin: We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle. But we are ready to fight, we have started it and we shall finish it with the aid of the apparatus called the Soviets.
  • Gilbert Scott-Heron: The first revolution is when you change your mind.
  • Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya: Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.
  • Lenin: No idea could be more erroneous or harmful than to separate foreign from home policy.
  • Kim Jong-il: Introducing individualism into socialism, which is based entirely on collectivism, is tantamount to taking poison.
  • Langston Hughes: Put one more S in the U.S.A. To make it Soviet.
  • Lenin: There is a good Latin proverb which says: “It is natural for all men to err; but only a fool persists in his error.
  • Lenin: A Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.
  • Kim Il Sung: It can be said that the life of a revolutionary begins by going among the masses and that it is over when he parts from them.
  • Lenin: Deafened by liberal catch-phrases, people in our country are apt to overlook the actual class stand of the liberal party’s real bosses.
  • Lenin: The proletariat’s struggle against the bourgeoisie, which finds expression in a variety of forms ever richer in content, inevitably becomes a political struggle directed towards the conquest of political power by the proletariat (“the dictatorship of the proletariat”).






William Gale


William Gale (16 janvier 1823 à Marylebone, Londres - 10 octobre 1909 Sutton, Surrey) était un peintre et un graveur anglais.

Gale était le fils du marchand de bois londonien William Gale et de sa femme Ann Crossley (née Williams, vers 1787-1859). Il avait une sœur aînée, Mary Ann Gale, et est né au 16 Harcourt Street, dans le quartier londonien de Marylebone. Il ne reçut son baptême officiel que le 15 mars 1844. Gale fréquenta la Brompton Grammar School, puis l'Art Academy fondée par Henry Sass dans Charlotte Street, où il apprit la peinture. En 1841, il entra comme élève à la Royal Academy Schools et reçut trois médailles d'argent dans les années qui suivirent pour ses premières peintures de genre historiques. De 1844 à 1893, il a régulièrement alimenté les expositions de la Royal Academy of Arts avec ses œuvres. En outre, à partir de 1867, ses tableaux ont souvent été exposés à la British Institution.

Le 28 août 1851, Gale épousa Mary (née Warner Chubb), la fille d'un marchand de maïs et malteur de Fordingbridge. Ensemble, ils ont ensuite entrepris un long voyage de noces en Italie. Ils séjournèrent notamment longtemps à Rome, où ils réalisèrent un tableau du carnaval et une marche vers la chapelle Sixtine. Pour l'exposition de l'Académie en 1852, il envoya une jeune fille italienne et l'étude d'une tête à Londres. En 1862 et 1867, il fit des voyages en Palestine (Jérusalem) et en Syrie, en 1871 et 1872 en Suisse et en 1876 et 1877 en Algérie.

De tous ses voyages, il rapporta de nombreuses esquisses qu'il utilisa ensuite pour ses peintures à l'huile ultérieures. Il a réalisé de nombreuses histoires bibliques, des tableaux religieux et profanes, des scènes de genre, des paysages et des portraits. La vue de Gale s'est détériorée et il aurait perdu la vue dans les dernières années de sa vie.

Gale et sa femme Mary (1830-28 avril 1891) ont eu quatre enfants:
- Mary Ann Gale est née en 1853.
- William Joseph Gale, né en 1858, partit début 1877 pour Haïfa où il travaillait dans des exploitations agricoles avec M. C. Oldorf de la colonie allemande. Le 14 septembre 1877, il a été assassiné par des voleurs près de Nazareth alors qu'il s'apprêtait à retourner à Haïfa.
- Benjamin Chubb Gale (1867-1936).
- Caroline Gale (1873-1897), n'a vécu que 24 ans.

Le 2 octobre 1905, il épousa Louisa Georgina Chilcott Gale (1858-1936), âgée de 47 ans, qui était probablement sa cousine, ou du moins une proche parente.








Albert Anker


Albert Anker, né le 1er avril 1831 et mort le 16 juillet 1910 à Anet (canton de Berne), est un illustrateur et peintre suisse. On l'appelle souvent le «peintre national» de la Suisse en raison de ses représentations populaires de la vie sociale de son pays au XIXe siècle.

Albert Anker est le deuxième enfant du vétérinaire d’Anet, Samuel Anker (1791–1860). Il va à l'école à Neuchâtel, où, en compagnie d'Auguste Bachelin, il suit ses premiers cours de dessin chez Louis Wallinger entre 1845 et 18482. Il étudie ensuite au gymnase de Kirchenfeld à Berne, où il obtient sa maturité en 1851. Anker entreprend ensuite des études de théologie à l'université de Berne, qu'il poursuit à celle de Halle, en Allemagne. Mais il écrit à son père à Noël 1853, de Iéna, qu'il se sent irrésistiblement attiré par une carrière artistique: «Toute profession est belle lorsqu'elle est accomplie avec sincérité et conscience».

Anker se rend alors à Paris, pour étudier dans l'atelier du peintre suisse Charles Gleyre. Celui-ci, malgré la rigueur académique de son enseignement, a formé toute une génération d'élèves talentueux comme Renoir ou Monet. Le jeune Albert, au tempérament créatif, s'est senti bridé par cet enseignement extrêmement technique. Toutefois ses natures mortes caressées par la lumière témoignent de la maîtrise acquise chez Gleyre. Ce cercle d'artistes comprend également l'aquarelliste Henri Zuber, dont le cousin, le juge Armand Weiss, lie amitié avec Anker.

Puis, entre 1855 et 1860, il suit les cours de l'École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts. Il installe ensuite un studio dans la maison de ses parents et participe régulièrement à des expositions en Suisse et à Paris Anker épouse, en 1864, Anna Rüfli, de Langnau. Le couple a six enfants dont deux meurent très jeunes, les quatre autres Louise, Marie, Maurice et Cécile apparaissent dans certaines de ses peintures. En 1866, Albert Anker commence à faire des maquettes pour le céramiste Théodore Deck ; au fil des ans, il va réaliser plus de 300 dessins pour des faïences1. La même année, il reçoit la médaille d'or du Salon de Paris pour Schlafendes Mädchen im Walde (1865) et Schreibunterricht (1865).

La famille Anker passe généralement l'hiver à Paris et l'été à Anet. Entre 1870 et 1874, il est élu député au Grand Conseil du canton de Berne, où il soutient la construction du Musée des beaux-arts. Anker voyage beaucoup, il se rend à Bruxelles, Anvers, Gand, Lille, passe l'hiver 1883-1884 à l'Académie Colarossi où il réalise des aquarelles, puis part pour l'Italie. Anker est membre de la Commission fédérale des beaux-arts, une première fois de 1889 à 1893, puis de 1895 à 1898.

En 1890, il renonce à son domicile parisien pour demeurer uniquement à Anet. Il siège, dès 1891, à la commission fédérale de la fondation Gottfried Keller. Anker est membre du jury de l'Exposition internationale d'art de Munich, en 1897. Il effectue, en 1899, son dernier voyage à Paris. L'université de Berne lui confère, en 1900, le titre de docteur honoris causa.

En septembre 1901, Anker est victime d'une attaque qui paralyse temporairement sa main droite. À cause de cette invalidité, il ne lui est plus possible de travailler sur de grandes toiles. Dans une position de travail qui lui est confortable - assis sur une chaise et la feuille de papier posée sur les genoux - il peint des aquarelles, plus de 500, dont le croquis au crayon est minimaliste.

Albert Anker meurt le 16 juillet 1910 à Ins. Deux expositions commémoratives sont organisées, la première au Musée d'art et d'histoire de Neuchâtel du 1er au 30 novembre 1910, puis au Musée des beaux-arts de Berne du 15 janvier au 12 février 1911.

«Anker est-il encore vivant ? Je pense souvent à ses œuvres, elles sont conçues avec tant d’habileté et de finesse. Il est vraiment d’un autre temps…» Vincent Van Gogh



Henry Ford: Vision without execution is just hallucination. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote5546


Quotes

  • Lenin: Miraculous prophecy is a fairy-tale. But scientific prophecy is a fact.
  • Noam Chomsky: See, people with power understand exactly one thing: violence.
  • George Bernard Shaw: Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
  • Henry Kissinger: Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.
  • Fidel Castro: This position of the Trotskyists is the same which all newspapers and publicity agencies of Yankee imperialism adopted in relation to the cause of Comrade Ernesto Guevara. All the imperialist press of the United States, its news agencies, the Cuban counter-revolutionaries' press, the bourgeois press throughout the continent and the rest of the world - in other words, this campaign of slanders and intrigues against revolutionary Cuba in connection with the case of Comrade Guevara - coincided with precision with all imperialist bourgeois sectors, all the slanderers and all the conspirators against the Cuban revolution, for there is no doubt that only reaction and imperialism is interested in discrediting the Cuban revolution and in destroying the confidence of the revolutionary movements in the Cuban revolution, in destroying the confidence of the Latin American peoples in the Cuban revolution, in destroying their faith. Therefore, they have not hesitated to use the dirtiest and most indecent weapons.
  • Fidel Castro: Even though at one time Trotskyism represented an erroneous position, but a position in the field of political ideas, Trotskyism became during the following years a vulgar instrument of imperialism and reaction.
  • Fidel Castro: Yon Sosa led the movement of a group of armed officers in the crushing of whom the mercenaries who later invaded Playa Girón participated. Through a businessman who took charge of the movement's political aspects, the Fourth International fixed it up so that that leader, who was ignorant of the profound problems of politics and of the history of revolutionary thought, would permit that agents of Trotskyism, about whom we do not have the slightest doubt that he is an agent of imperialism, to publish a newspaper which copies outright the program of the Fourth International. By doing this, the Fourth International committed a real crime against the revolutionary movement to isolate it from the rest of the people, to isolate it from the masses, when it contaminated it with the stupidities, the discredit, and the repugnant thing which Trotskyism today is in the field of politics.
  • Martin Luther King, Jr.: So today capitalism has out-lived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: It is the beginning of the end.
  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: Financiers flourish only when nations decline.
  • George Friedman: The primordial interest of the United States, over which for centuries we have fought wars– the First, the Second and Cold Wars– has been the relationship between Germany and Russia, because united there, they’re the only force that could threaten us. And to make sure that that doesn’t happen.
  • Lenin: Prompted by fear of revolution, the old state power, which is independent of the people and is a power over the people, promises the people that it will ensure their freedom. But its promises remain unfulfilled; they cannot be fulfilled.
  • James Connolly: If you remove the English army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organisation of the Socialist Republic, your efforts would be in vain.
  • Lenin: There are moments in history when a desperate struggle of the masses, even for a hopeless cause, is essential for the further schooling of these masses and their training for the next struggle.
  • Kim Il Sung: Our ideal is to build a society where everyone is well fed, well clothed, and lives a long life, a society where everybody is progressive and works devotedly, a society where all people live united in harmony as one big family.
  • Michael Parenti: To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.
  • Edward Snowden: There is nothing more grotesque than a media pushing for war.
  • Lenin: Practice is higher than (theoretical) knowledge, for it has not only the dignity of universality, but also of immediate actuality.
  • Stalin: Only in the highest phase of communism will people, working in accordance with their capacity, receive recompense therefor in accordance with their needs: "From each according to his capacity, to each according to his needs."
  • Stalin: All that Marxism declares is that until classes have been completely abolished, and until work has been transformed from being a means of maintaining existence, into a prime necessity of life, into voluntary labour performed for the benefit of society, people will continue to be paid for their labour in accordance with the amount of labour performed.
  • Stalin: The October Revolution is neither the continuation nor the culmination of the Great French Revolution. The purpose of the French Revolution was to put an end to feudalism and establish capitalism. The aim of the October Revolution is to put an end to capitalism and to establish socialism.
  • Lenin: We shall not achieve socialism without a struggle. But we are ready to fight, we have started it and we shall finish it with the aid of the apparatus called the Soviets.
  • Gilbert Scott-Heron: The first revolution is when you change your mind.
  • Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya: Solidarity among the male and female workers, a general cause, general goals, a general path to that goal - that is the solution to the "woman" question in the working-class environment.
  • Lenin: No idea could be more erroneous or harmful than to separate foreign from home policy.
  • Kim Jong-il: Introducing individualism into socialism, which is based entirely on collectivism, is tantamount to taking poison.
  • Langston Hughes: Put one more S in the U.S.A. To make it Soviet.
  • Lenin: There is a good Latin proverb which says: “It is natural for all men to err; but only a fool persists in his error.
  • Lenin: A Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.
  • Kim Il Sung: It can be said that the life of a revolutionary begins by going among the masses and that it is over when he parts from them.
  • Lenin: Deafened by liberal catch-phrases, people in our country are apt to overlook the actual class stand of the liberal party’s real bosses.
  • Lenin: The proletariat’s struggle against the bourgeoisie, which finds expression in a variety of forms ever richer in content, inevitably becomes a political struggle directed towards the conquest of political power by the proletariat (“the dictatorship of the proletariat”).