If you read Kim, in the beginning they go into the museum his father was curator, and there is a character base don his father.
Posted on 02/09/2017 8:35:49 PM PST by nickcarraway
Mr Kipling's exceedingly good art: Lockwood Kipling emerges from his son Rudyard's shadow in the V&A's splendid new exhibition
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Until April 2
You certainly wouldn’t call Lockwood Kipling a household name. If he’s remembered at all, it tends to be incidentally: as father of the Nobel Prize-winning author Rudyard.
A splendid new exhibition at the V&A, however, reveals what an interesting Victorian figure he was in his own right.
Born in 1837, Lockwood was the son of a Methodist minister, but – inspired by a teenage visit to the Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace – he opted for a career in art over the Church.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
If you read Kim, in the beginning they go into the museum his father was curator, and there is a character base don his father.
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Indeed, Kim is my favorite of Kiplings works, and the most Indian.
The article is interesting but the end is mistaken. There should not have been a bit of disagreement between Lockwood and Rudyard. Rudyard Kipling certainly had a keen appreciation and affection for India and Indians, Kim is proof of that.
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"Oh, east is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet . . ."
"An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please;
An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool -- you bet that Tommy sees!"
"BY THE old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' lazy at the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks o' me; . . ."
". . . a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke."
"If . . ."
The images rising from the heart that no artist's hand can draw--it's sure he's the better seed of a Mom and Dad that formed his early soul, eh?
Nice spot! Thanks!
Fonder of the Rud, sorry.
And Rudyard could tap deep into the Britsh nostalgia for Imperial India.
Here a British limey remembers the old days from his job in a London bank ("Mandalay").
But that's all shove be'ind me -
Long ago an' fur away,
An' there ain't no 'busses runnin'
From the Bank to Mandalay;
An' I'm learnin' 'ere in London
What the ten-year soldier tells:
"If you've 'eard the East a-callin',
You won't never 'eed naught else."
No! you won't 'eed nothin' else
But them spicy garlic smells,
An' the sunshine an' the palm-trees
An' the tinkly temple-bells;
On the road to Mandalay,
Where the flyin'-fishes play,
An' the dawn comes up like thunder
Outer China 'crost the Bay!
His art is fairly nice to look at, there is a lot going on and much to see if you take the time to look.
I love those types of detailed drawings.
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