Identifier: criticismmo00chil (find matches)
Title: Art and criticism : monographs and studies
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Child, Theodore
Subjects: Art criticism
Publisher: Harper
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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inter has before en-joyed, a vision now tragic and morose, but more often delicateand infinite in fine nuances like mother-of-pearl or opal. The Crepuscule and La Vague, apart from their charm as vi-sions of nature, are of inexhaustible interest as studies of colorand of values. The mere chromatic aspect of Mr. Harrisonsmarines gives to the eye direct physical enjoyment before thebrain perceives that this color reproduces the instantaneousphases of cloud and water, and before analysis reveals howcurious is the artists precise notation of the appearance of thecurling wave, and of the wash that swirls in successive andever-widening curves chasing each other over the smoothsands, each with its glassy sheet of mirror-like surface that re-flects the sky. Mr. Harrisons En Arcadie, in spite of its title, containsnothing fanciful or imported from dream-land; it is entirelyfrom nature. The modern French school of painting of the a> H T3 a M ZT. > DPq 3 7, ,~ C 7, o n a> o > O Ill 2
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AMERICAN ARTISTS AT THE PARIS EXHIBITION. I I.) past fifteen years is based on two principles, namely, the ob-servation of values and the integrity of the subject. The ideathat has been professed, perhaps to excess, is that to make apicture we do not need dramatic or sentimental stories, neitherthe pear-shaped tears of Greuze nor the stupendous adventuresof Sennacherib. The theory is that truth suffices, or in otherwords, all that can be demanded of an artist is sincere observa-tion, logical execution, and emancipation from academic influ-ence, or, as others might say, individuality and self-respect. En Arcadie contains the result of the application of thistheory to nude figures in the open air. Beside a stream, be-yond which is a flowery meadow and an enclosing curtain oftrees, is a carpet of velvety grass and flowers, studded withgnarled willows and silvery birches, through whose branchesthe afternoon sun strikes and forms a golden mosaic on thesward. In this landscape some nude wom

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