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Art dynasties

 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
13:17 / 21.06.07
An interesting thread here that I rotted in the second post because I couldn't think of an example in the relevant field (literature).

Just trying to figure out which fields of artistic endeavour have produced a lot of multi-generational artists doing the same thing (give or take) as the preceding generation.

Music, acting and film directing are too easy to bother with, but I don't know as much about the plastic arts as I feel I should, nor the stage (drama and dance).

So: parent/child dynasties in the arts -- who springs to mind?
 
 
grant
13:28 / 21.06.07
Barrymores, Carradines, Sutherlands - all Hollywood dynasties.

Oh, and Gwyneth Paltrow counts, doesn't she?
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
13:38 / 21.06.07
Agreed, but I'm hoping to veer away from film and music -- I probably wasn't clear enough on that, but (North American) film and (contemporary and classical) music are a breeze to think of dynasties for.

Literature/painting/sculpture/stagecraft/dance I kind of fall down on, though.

(and why is it "easier" for actors and musicians to have children follow in their footsteps than other artist-types?)
 
 
Supaglue
14:06 / 21.06.07
The Freuds don't really count: bit of a mixed bag - so I've threadrotted I'm afraid, but they've covered most bases:

There's Siggy

The gambler Clem

Painter Lucien

Media/culture waste of space Emma

Whizz-kid matt


It's The bloody Royal Tenenbaums. But they're still useful for those party games where you have to link celebrities. It's actually scary how many people they know.


The Redgraves would be an example of a stage family. And don't a load of the Crumbs write comics?
 
 
Mistoffelees
14:09 / 21.06.07
At least two children of Nobel laureate Thomas Mann were also successful authors: Klaus Mann wrote several novels and Golo Mann wrote a famous biography of Wallenstein.
 
 
Supaglue
14:12 / 21.06.07
Mary Wollenscroft & Mary Shelley are a literary example.
 
 
Lea-side
14:19 / 21.06.07
Francis Bacon - Elizabethan writer
Francis Bacon - Modern Painter

or still in an art vein..

Pieter Brueghel The Elder - Painter
Pieter Brueghel the Younger - Painter
Jan Brueghel The Elder - Painter
Jan Brueghel the Younger - Painter
Abraham Brueghel - Painter

phew!
 
 
kan
14:36 / 21.06.07
boyle family

Slightly different in that they all work together as a team.
There was a great exhibition of their earth pieces at Edinburgh gallery of modern art a few years back and they were mesmerising.
 
 
Supaglue
14:41 / 21.06.07
Keeping on the painters -

Hans Holbein the Elder (and brother Sigismund Holbein)
Hans Holbein the Younger and Ambrosius Holbein
 
 
grant
16:00 / 21.06.07
(and why is it "easier" for actors and musicians to have children follow in their footsteps than other artist-types?)

Music and theater are things people do in groups.

And wind up making babies between rehearsals.
 
 
Kali, Queen of Kitteh
17:59 / 21.06.07
Don't forget the Waughs.
 
 
neutral
20:39 / 21.06.07
I can think of a few random ones:

Kiki Smith (sculptor) daughter of sculptor Tony Smith, Francesca Woodman (photographer) daughter of George Woodman (photographer) and Betty Woodman (ceramicist) i think her siblings are also practicising artists although i cant remember their names, Alberto Morrocco (painter) father of Leon Morrocco (painter).

I was wondering how we would define 'field' here, would it be artistic medium or conceptual concerns?
 
  
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