The Artist's Studio

[pigshitpoet]

Imagine a drawing atelier as big as the Roman forum

Imagine an art drawing class using a nude marble statue as the model...

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[retrofire]

And a littlee about Balzac:

Balzac had well-to-do parents who sent him away to a wet nurse and then away to school. He attempted suicide as a young man. His parents lent him money to start businesses but they all failed and he ended up owing his mother $50,000. His parents moved and left him in Paris, in a spardely furnished garret with a starvation allowance and an old lady to look after him.

La Comédie Humaine was to be Balzac's life work and his greatest achievement.

Balzac suffered from health problems throughout his life, possibly owing to his intense writing schedule. His relationship with his family was often strained by financial and personal drama, and he lost more than one friend over critical reviews. In 1850, Balzac married a Polish aristocrat and his longtime love. He died in Paris six months later.

Owing to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of  realism in European literature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac

and that is all I need to know about Balzac.

Thank You and Goodnight !

[pigshitpoet]

aside from the personal aspects that's kind of what i knew about him
he was a gamechanger
and then there was catullus and gargantua & pantagruel, james joyce and a long line of ancestral bukowskis, oh lest we forget william burroughs and allen ginsberg
mind you, he was probably more akin to oscar wilde by temperament and content
all that said, i've not read anything by balzac
i'm not fluent in french,
i should try though, one never knows what may emerge from it
cheers

check this out!

[pigshitpoet]

Many tales, either rich in situations or made dramatic by some of the innumerable tricks of chance, carry with them their own particular setting, which can be rendered artistically or simply by those who narrate them, without their subjects losing any, even the least of their charms. But there are some incidents in human experience to which the heart alone is able to give life; there are certain details-shall we call them anatomical?-the delicate touches of which cannot be made to reappear unless by an equally delicate rendering of thought; there are portraits which require the infusion of a soul, and mean nothing unless the subtlest expression of the speaking countenance is given; furthermore, there are things which we know not how to say or do without the aid of secret harmonies which a day, an hour, a fortunate conjunction of celestial signs, or an inward moral tendency may produce.

Madame Firmiani
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1357/1357-h/1357-h.htm