From Wikipedia:The term Doodle first appeared in English in the early seventeenth century[7] and is thought to be derived from the Low German (a language close to Dutch) dudel, meaning “playing music badly” or Dödel, meaning “fool” or “simpleton”. The Macaroni wig was an extreme fashion in the 1770s and became contemporary slang for foppishness.[8]Dandieswere men who placed particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisure hobbies. A self-made “Dandy” was a British middle-class man from the late 18th to early 19th century who impersonated an aristocratic lifestyle. They notably wore silk strip cloth, stuck feathers in their hats, and bore two fob watch accessories simultaneously (two pocket watches with chains)—”one to tell what time it was and the other to tell what time it was not”.[9] This era was the height of “dandyism” in London, when men wore striped silks upon their return from the Grand Tour[citation needed], along with a feather in the hat.
The macaroni wig was an extreme example of such dandyism, popular in England at the time. The term macaroni was used to describe a fashionable man who dressed and spoke in an outlandishly affected and effeminate manner. The term pejoratively referred to a man who “exceeded the ordinary bounds of fashion”[10] in terms of clothes, fastidious eating, and gambling.
In British conversation, the term “Yankee Doodle Dandy” implied unsophisticated misappropriation of high-class fashion, as though simply sticking a feather in one’s cap would make one to be noble.[11] Peter McNeil, professor of fashion studies, claims that the British were insinuating that the colonists were low-class men lacking masculinity, emphasizing that the American men were womanly.[12]
From Richeson: Casein (kay’seen) is a quick-drying, aqueous medium using a milk-based binding agent, and is one of the most durable mediums in history. Nine thousand year old casein cave paintings have been discovered in Asia, and later, the medium was used by Byzantine, Roman and Renaissance artists including the Old Masters. Known for their …
[image_with_animation image_url=”11306″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”]” img_link=”https://drawinglics.com/photos/8771703/mille-fiori-favoriti-an-autumn-drive-over-kenosha-pass-to-buy-a-bear-an-autumn-drive-over-kenosha-pass-to-buy-a-bear.py Most of the information in this post is straight out of a podcast called Lexicon Valley, with John H. McWhorter. McWhorter is a linguistics professor at Columbia University, and Lexicon Valley is one of my favorite podcasts. I was listening to a recent post about color, in particular the …
[image_with_animation image_url=”10475″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Lucy Garnett These figure drawings were made in the last couple of sessions of my 5 week Beginning Figure Drawing Class. They are drawn with confidence, style, and sensitivity. Each week we practiced a different style of drawing, and a different way of approaching the figure. One style was …
Yankee Doodle
Yankee Doodle
The paintings are credited to Archibald Willard. Color and composition versions, oddly varied, are the contributions of the internets.
Yanker, didel, doodle down, Diddle, dudel, lanther, Yanke viver, voover vown, Botermilk und tanther.
From Wikipedia:The term Doodle first appeared in English in the early seventeenth century[7] and is thought to be derived from the Low German (a language close to Dutch) dudel, meaning “playing music badly” or Dödel, meaning “fool” or “simpleton”. The Macaroni wig was an extreme fashion in the 1770s and became contemporary slang for foppishness.[8] Dandies were men who placed particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisure hobbies. A self-made “Dandy” was a British middle-class man from the late 18th to early 19th century who impersonated an aristocratic lifestyle. They notably wore silk strip cloth, stuck feathers in their hats, and bore two fob watch accessories simultaneously (two pocket watches with chains)—”one to tell what time it was and the other to tell what time it was not”.[9] This era was the height of “dandyism” in London, when men wore striped silks upon their return from the Grand Tour[citation needed], along with a feather in the hat.
The macaroni wig was an extreme example of such dandyism, popular in England at the time. The term macaroni was used to describe a fashionable man who dressed and spoke in an outlandishly affected and effeminate manner. The term pejoratively referred to a man who “exceeded the ordinary bounds of fashion”[10] in terms of clothes, fastidious eating, and gambling.
In British conversation, the term “Yankee Doodle Dandy” implied unsophisticated misappropriation of high-class fashion, as though simply sticking a feather in one’s cap would make one to be noble.[11] Peter McNeil, professor of fashion studies, claims that the British were insinuating that the colonists were low-class men lacking masculinity, emphasizing that the American men were womanly.[12]
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