French Art: Classic and Contemporary Painting and SculptureC. Scribner's Sons, 1892 - 239 páginas |
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French Art, Classic and Contemporary, Painting and Sculpture William Crary Brownell Vista completa - 1901 |
French Art: Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture William Crary Brownell Vista completa - 1892 |
French Art: Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture William Crary Brownell Vista completa - 1901 |
Términos y frases comunes
absolute academic French admirable æsthetic antique appreciation Arc de Triomphe artificial artistic attitude Auguste Rodin Barye Bastien-Lepage beauty Carpeaux Cazin certainly Chapu's character charm classic Claude Monet clever color composition contemporary conventional Corot criticism Dalou decorative Delacroix delightful distinction Donatello Dubois effect eminent ensemble epoch ESSAYS exhibited expression exquisite fancy feeling figures force France French art French painting French sculpture genius Géricault graceful Greek ideal ideas illustration imagination imitation impression impressionism impressionists individual inspiration instinct intelligent interest Italian landscape Lebrun less Louis Quatorze Louis Quinze Louvre Manet material ment Mercié Millet modern Monet movement nature never one's painter Paul Huet perhaps pictorial picture poetic point of view Poussin purely Puvis de Chavannes realistic refined Renaissance Rodin romantic romanticism romanticists Saint-Marceaux sapience sculpt seems sense sentiment spirit suggestion technical temperament things Tintoretto tion tive tradition true truly truth wholly
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Página 17 - ... that for ever droop and rise over the green banks and mounds sweeping down in scented undulation, steep to the blue water, studded here and there with new-mown heaps, filling all the air with fainter sweetness — look up towards the higher hills, where the waves of everlasting green roll silently into their long inlets among the shadows of the pines ; and we may perhaps at last know the meaning of those quiet words of the 147th Psalm, ' He maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.
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 17 - ... 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 arching boughs all veiled and dim with...
Página 16 - 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...
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...