{"id":2690,"date":"2011-07-05T00:19:55","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T05:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/?p=2690"},"modified":"2014-12-14T20:15:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T01:15:17","slug":"the-artists-beard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/05\/the-artists-beard\/","title":{"rendered":"The Artist’s Beard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fred Hatt, b. 1958, artist and blogger, self-portrait photo 2011 by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

This is a first for Drawing Life<\/em> – a men’s style post.\u00a0 Artists, writers, and musicians create not only a body of work but also a persona.\u00a0 The possibilities are broad, but the options are naturally constrained by the face and body Nature has given.\u00a0 As I have found myself becoming a bearish middle-aged man, my own style has gravitated towards a classic type.\u00a0 The trimmed beard I had ten years ago has expanded to what is now known on the interwebs as an “epic beard”.\u00a0 It covers my double chin and also serves as a tribute to my many artistic forebears, artists whose fulfillment manifested in silverback gravitas rather than studly cutness or prettyboy romance.\u00a0 So here is a fairly arbitrary selection of bearded males (and one female) of the creative bent, presented in completely random order.\u00a0 What a great opportunity to put myself in the context of the greats!<\/p>\n

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Hermeto Pascoal, b. 1936, composer and musician, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Daniel Day-Lewis, b. 1957, actor, photo by John Spellman\/Retna Ltd.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961, writer, photo by Yousuf Karsh<\/p><\/div>\n

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Luciano Pavarotti, 1935-2007, singer, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jim Henson, 1936-1990, puppeteer, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Thelonious Monk, 1917-1982, composer and musician, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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George Carlin, 1937-2008, comedian and writer, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, playwright, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Albrecht D\u00fcrer, 1471-1528, painter and artist, self-portrait<\/p><\/div>\n

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Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917, sculptor and artist, photo by Nadar<\/p><\/div>\n

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George Clinton, b. 1941, musician and bandleader, photo by Marcy Guiragossian\/Marcy G. Photography<\/p><\/div>\n

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Constantin Brancusi, 1876-1957, sculptor, photo by Edward Steichen<\/p><\/div>\n

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Toshiro Mifune, 1920-1997, actor, still from Red Beard, directed by Akira Kurosawa<\/p><\/div>\n

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Erik Satie, 1866-1925, composer and musician,photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, writer, photo by Jeremiah Gurney<\/p><\/div>\n

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Allen Ginsberg, 1926-1997, poet, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Devendra Banhart, b. 1981, singer-songwriter, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ai Weiwei, b. 1957, artist and activist, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sergei Parajanov, 1924-1990, film director and artist, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, poet, photo by Matthew Brady<\/p><\/div>\n

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Isaac Hayes, 1942-2008, songwriter and musician, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Vincent van Gogh, 1853-1890, painter, self-portrait<\/p><\/div>\n

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Alan Moore, b. 1953, writer, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hans Holbein the Younger, 1497-1543, painter, self-portrait<\/p><\/div>\n

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Oliver Sacks, b. 1933, neurologist and writer, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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John Lennon, 1940-1980, songwriter and musician, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jennifer Miller, b. 1961, performer and writer, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Claude Monet, 1840-1926, painter, photo by Nadar<\/p><\/div>\n

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Terry Riley, b. 1935, composer, photo by Lenny Gonzalez<\/p><\/div>\n

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Salman Rushdie, b. 1947, writer, 1992 photo by Andy Ross<\/p><\/div>\n

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Frederick Douglass, 1818-1895, writer and statesman, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897, composer, photograph by C. Brasch<\/p><\/div>\n

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Jerzy Grotowski, 1933-1999, theater director, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Stanley Kubrick, 1928-1999, film director, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910, writer, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

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Gustav Klimt, 1862-1918, painter, photographer unknown<\/p><\/div>\n

The beard is naturally an expression of masculinity and maturity.\u00a0 It also seems to denote sensitivity in a man of rough or plain features.\u00a0 Imagine many of the men in these photos clean shaven, and see how their power, like that of the shorn Samson, is diminished.<\/p>\n

All photos, besides the one of me, were found on the web.\u00a0 Clicking on the photo links to its source.<\/p>\n

Of course this collection is arbitrary and incomplete.\u00a0 Feel free to use comments to nominate worthy bearded artists I’ve omitted.<\/p>\n

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