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Topic: A rare fact about Chopin - He was a painter too!!! (Read 1925 times)

shaulhadar

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A rare fact about Chopin - He was a painter too!!!

on: January 30, 2011, 07:22:08 AM

Hello all good people, i just wanted to let you know a really cool and almost unknown fact to those who don't read to much about Chopin. Chopin was actually a very capable sketch artist and scene sketcher. Please check out my post in my blog about it!! and see some samples sketches there as well. i hope it can shed a little more light on this mysterious musical genius.

https://chopin-opus.66ghz.com/chopin-the-painter/

Good day, Shaul.

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I have an enormous craving for Chopin's music, which is unusual for most normal and not normal people out there.

https://chopin-opus.66ghz.com/

gsmonks

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Re: A rare fact about Chopin - He was a painter too!!!

Reply #1 on: January 30, 2011, 09:57:57 AM

Chopin did cartoons and illustrations, too. His pen and ink drawings of cats playing on music manuscript were very popular when I was a child.

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emilye

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Re: A rare fact about Chopin - He was a painter too!!!

Reply #2 on: January 30, 2011, 10:54:23 AM

yeah I know

he painted caricatures and we can read about this fact in his many letters.

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keranwills

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Re: A rare fact about Chopin - He was a painter too!!!

Reply #3 on: February 03, 2011, 11:02:21 AM

Really don't have any idea about this,most people know him just as 'the poet of the piano'.But this is nice to know about his sketching art.Does anyone here has sketches made by Chopin. Eager to see his sketches and caricatures.

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shaulhadar

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Re: A rare fact about Chopin - He was a painter too!!!

Reply #4 on: February 05, 2011, 04:35:13 PM

Hello Keranwills. I have put some of Chopin's sketches in my website, please check it out, it is the link in the first post, and here is another one for your convenience:

https://chopin-opus.66ghz.com/chopin-the-painter/

I put about nine sketches, check it out

good day,
Shaul.

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https://chopin-opus.66ghz.com/