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Subject: [Leica] Famous Parent-Child Artists in different media?
From: robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron)
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:50:19 -0600
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What about Pablo Picasso (painter, sculptor) / Paloma Picasso (jewelry and
fashion designer)?

Are their (visual) media too similar?

==On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Benjamin Marks
<benmarks2005 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Good one Steve, but these are all in the same field (music) like the
> Bachs.  Any in different fields like the Renoirs/
> +++++++++++++
> Steve Barbour wrote:
>
> how about...?
>
>
>
> shostakovich,   father and son
>
> Ravi Shankar Norah Jones
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Benjamin Marks <benmarks2005 at gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:50 AM
> Subject: Famous Parent-Child Artists in different media?
> To: lug at leica-users.org
>
>
> 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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