Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/12/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Dec 31, 2012, at 8:50 AM, Benjamin Marks <benmarks2005 at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. how about...? shostakovich, father and son Ravi Shankar Norah Jones s > > Ben Marks > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information