French Art: Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture

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C. Scribner's sons, 1892 - 274 páginas
 

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Página 17 - Go out, in the spring time, among the meadows that slope from the shores of the Swiss lakes to the roots of their lower mountains. There, mingled with the taller gentians and the white narcissus, the grass grows deep and free ; and as you follow the winding mountain paths, beneath...
Página 148 - Style, in my sense of the word, is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it ; and dignity and distinction are not terms which suit many acts or words of Luther.
Página 131 - The two latter tendencies the savage possesses as completely as the civilized man, but he does not share the civilized man's instinct for correlation. And in this sense, I think, a certain savagery is justly to be ascribed to the impressionist. His productions have many attractions and many merits—merits and attractions that the traditional painting has not. But they are really only by a kind of automatic inadvertence, pictures. They are not truly pictorial. And a picture should be something more...
Página 214 - He used to do a little anatomy evenings," he said to me, "and used his chisel next day without a model. He repeats endlessly his one type — the youth of the Sistine ceiling.

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