Goodbye John Tempest
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Gerard went on to create the style of Abstract Spiritualism. John was able to benefit in the form of tutelage, spirit and insights from this special connection to the backbone of the modern art world by spending time with both de Chirico and his wife. Between the the master and his father, there really could be no better apprentice-like guidance John could have received. Knowing these things about John made him the natural and obvious choice to be the artist to paint a portrait of my wife and daughter.
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With each stroke of his brush, HJT captures the spiritual persona of each subject. A Tempest portraiture in oil is much more than a mere photo representation. I love these portraits and look at them every day. He is a really great artist and I would recommend him to anyone. How about an expertly created portrait of her and her twin daughters and second portrait of her two dogs? Fortunately, we were introduced to John Tempest, a talented artist who lives in our area and was willing to take on the challenge to create two large portraits.
It was difficult, but I was able to keep the portrait unveiling a surprise. At the birthday celebration event held at the Hope Valley Country Club with about 50 of our closest friends including John and his lovely wife, Anne , I walked my bride into the event room where the two portraits were beautifully displayed on the wall. The overjoyed reaction when she saw the portraits was priceless!
Thank you John for making this event so special. The two portraits are now proudly hung on the wall in our home and are considered among our most treasured possessions. He captures nicely the spirit of his subjects and reveals their inherent personalities. I have known John professionally for 25 years. His portraits and artistry are well executed, and his heritage adds nicely to his noteworthy talent.
Once you speak with John, you will how entrenched in the art life he is and always has been. He painted a picture of me many years ago from a still picture.
Even though I was younger then, he aged the painting just a little so that as I got older the picture would always represent me. It is the kind of art work that can be passed from generation to generation. And that he did indeed quit the stage just as Prospero quit his enchanted island? Once you start seeing autobiography in these final speeches, it follows that Shakespeare might have written more of himself into Prospero. Bardolators have loved this idea from the late 19th century onwards.
Writing in , for instance, Edward Dowden said: It's easy to be cynical about the idea that we know Prospero is Shakespeare because he shares characteristics with all the other characters we've also identified with the playwright. Yet it's also easy to see why this line of thought is so tempting.
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Shakespeare is a uniquely tantalising historical figure. He gives us a feeling of remarkable kinship and understanding. He stretches out to us, through the ages, and shows that he thought and felt much as we do; he saw his world as we see ours. What's more, he still speaks our minds.
We can still identify with Hamlet, Othello and even Macbeth. And as a result, few historical figures feel closer than the man who created them. Except, of course, we know next to nothing about him. It's often said that we know SIX definite things about Shakespeare: Even some of those "facts" are open to dispute. Was his father indeed illiterate, or did he just put a cross for his signature on the records we have of him — as plenty of his contemporaries seem to have done — for speed and convenience?
How soon after William was born was he baptised? And yes, some people even say he didn't write the plays Once you get involved in such disputes, you quickly come to see how little we know about the real man. Prospero conveniently fills that vacuum. He gives us a sense of someone we desperately want to know: So I understand the temptation of seeing Shakespeare wielding that staff — even though there's no more hard evidence that he felt close to Prospero than there is that he identified with Caliban, or Ferdinand or Miranda.
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But here's an interesting thing. In a fascinating University of Oxford podcast about the folly of linking Prospero and Shakespeare, the academic Emma Smith points out that for a few hundred years after it was published in the First Folio, most critics assumed that The Tempest was Shakespeare's earliest play.
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It appeared first in the table of contents and so was generally accepted as the first to be written. As a result, hardly anyone mentioned the parallels between the playwright and Prospero. They thought it was the work of a young man and didn't think Shakespeare was trying to say anything about himself through the old wizard.