Pre-RaphaelitismG. P. Putnam's sons, 1891 - 91 страници |
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Страница 24 - Nature," there was not one of the things which he wished to represent, that stayed for so much as five seconds together : but none of them escaped for all that: they are sealed up in that strange storehouse of his; he may take one of them out perhaps, this day twenty years, and paint it in his dark room, far away.
Страница 15 - ... priori, that the men intended successfully to resist the influence of such a system should be endowed with little natural sense of beauty, and thus rendered dead to the temptation it presented. Summing up these conditions, there is surely little cause for surprise that pictures painted, in a temper of resistance, by exceedingly young men, of stubborn instincts and positive self-trust, and with little natural perception of beauty, should not be calculated, at the first glance, to win us from works...
Страница 5 - Europe at the same moment to his true duty — the faithful representation of all objects of historical interest, or of natural beauty existent at the period ; representation such as might at once aid the advance of the sciences, and keep faithful record of every monument of past ages which was likely to be swept away in the approaching eras of revolutionary change.
Страница 17 - ... the third or fourth year of their efforts they should have produced works in many parts not inferior to the best of Albert Durer, this is perhaps not less strange. But the loudness and universality of the howl which the common critics of the press have raised against them, the utter absence of all generous help or encouragement from those who can both measure their toil and appreciate their success, and the shrill, shallow laughter of those who can do neither the one nor the other—these are...
Страница 69 - Many critics, especially the architects, have found fault with me for not " teaching people how to arrange masses" ; for not "attributing sufficient importance to composition." Alas! I attribute far more importance to it than they do ;—so much importance that I should just as soon think of sitting down to teach a man how to write a " Divina Commedia," or "King Lear," as how to "compose," in the true sense, a single building or picture.