Hand-book for Young PaintersJohn Murray, 1870 - 315 pages |
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... Story -M . Angelo and Raphael - The Subjective Element— Vulgarity — Morland not vulgar — Pretension the Essence of Vulgarity - French Painters of the Eighteenth Cen- tury - Poussin - Watteau - The Objective Element- Caravaggio ...
... Story -M . Angelo and Raphael - The Subjective Element— Vulgarity — Morland not vulgar — Pretension the Essence of Vulgarity - French Painters of the Eighteenth Cen- tury - Poussin - Watteau - The Objective Element- Caravaggio ...
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... story or incident , it becomes unmeaning or worse , if , as probably in the instance alluded to by Lessing , the face looks at us . He was , in fact , blinded by his theory , to the privilege which Art , when it does not pretend to be ...
... story or incident , it becomes unmeaning or worse , if , as probably in the instance alluded to by Lessing , the face looks at us . He was , in fact , blinded by his theory , to the privilege which Art , when it does not pretend to be ...
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... story . Its great feature , the form of the giant relieved upon the bright sky as he sits on his rocky throne , owes its grandeur to the strictly technical principles of perspective , linear and aerial ; and if the painters of antiquity ...
... story . Its great feature , the form of the giant relieved upon the bright sky as he sits on his rocky throne , owes its grandeur to the strictly technical principles of perspective , linear and aerial ; and if the painters of antiquity ...
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... story or expression , but reigns paramount only because the story and expression do not interfere with it . Does not the beauty of Hogarth's colour , instead of inter- fering in the slightest degree with his story or ex- pression ...
... story or expression , but reigns paramount only because the story and expression do not interfere with it . Does not the beauty of Hogarth's colour , instead of inter- fering in the slightest degree with his story or ex- pression ...
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... story like Leonardo . The Another and a very different subject may be men- tioned a work of Watteau , * in which all the ordinary rules of contrast are departed from , with a result as charming and as natural as it is novel . Two pretty ...
... story like Leonardo . The Another and a very different subject may be men- tioned a work of Watteau , * in which all the ordinary rules of contrast are departed from , with a result as charming and as natural as it is novel . Two pretty ...
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Page 257 - And instead of this, there is not a moment of any day of our lives, when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure.
Page 302 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand: His manners were gentle, complying, and bland; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Page 279 - I am certain, that whatever is to be truly great and affecting must have on it the strong stamp of the native land ; not a law this, but a necessity, from the intense hold on their country of the affections of all truly great men...
Page 259 - Certainly, if the sky is obtrusive, as mine are, it is bad; but if it is evaded, as mine are not, it is worse; it must and always shall with me make an effectual part of the composition. It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the keynote, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment. You may conceive, then, what a 'white sheet' would do for me, impressed as I am with these notions, and they cannot be erroneous.
Page 45 - Shakespeare, whether life or nature be his subject, shows plainly that he has seen with his own eyes; he gives the image which he receives, not weakened or distorted by the intervention of any other mind ; the ignorant feel his representations to be just, and the learned s*e that they are complete.
Page 125 - ... distortion, both of attitude and physiognomy, than this effect occasioned: nor was there wantin'g beside it one of those beautiful female faces which the same Hogarth, in whom the satirist never extinguished that love of beauty which belonged to him as a poet, so often and so gladly introduces as the central figure in a crowd of humorous deformities...
Page 45 - Nor was his attention confined to the actions of men ; he was an exact surveyor of the inanimate world ; his descriptions have always some peculiarities, gathered by contemplating things as they really exist.
Page 258 - The noblest scenes of the earth can be seen and known but by few ; it is not intended that man should live always in the midst of them ; he injures them by his presence, he ceases to feel them if he be always with them : but the sky is for all ; bright as it is, it is not " Too bright, nor good, For human nature's daily food...
Page 45 - There are three distinct kinds of judges upon all new authors or productions ; the first are those who know no rules, but pronounce entirely from their natural taste and feelings; the second are those who know and judge by rules ; and the third are those who know, but are above the rules. These last are those you should wish to satisfy. Next to them rate the natural judges; but ever despise those opinions that are formed by the rules.
Page 144 - The wood cuts that illustrate his books of natural history may be studied with advantage by the most ambitious votary of the highest classes of art — filled as they are by the truest feeling for nature, and though often representing the most ordinary objects, yet never, in a single instance, degenerating into common-place. The charming vignettes that ornament these books abound in incidents from real life, diversified by genuine humour, as well as by the truest pathos...