Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/31

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Subject: [Leica] Famous Parent-Child Artists in different media?
From: benmarks2005 at gmail.com (Benjamin Marks)
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:50:55 -0500
 
My friend Christian Keathley of Middlebury College asked me the following
question: "Pierre August Renoir (painter) and Jean Renoir (film maker) were
both masters in their mediums. Can you think of any other parent-child
artists pairs who were similarly gifted *in different media* as these two
were?" I could not think of any. The Bachs came to mind but they were all
in the same medium (music). Irving Penn (photo) and Arthur Penn
(film/theater, "Yeah, my brother Irv takes pictures . . .") were both
masters of their media, but they were brothers, not father and son ... LUG
cloud: any wisdom on the subject?

A solution to this (and I am not sure there is one) would require that the
parent and child be both recognized as masters (e.g. If, hypothetically,
Frank Lloyd Wright had a child who was only a competent cellist, that
wouldn't count).

Happy New Year all.

Ben Marks
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