A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States, Том 3C.E. Goodspeed & Company, 1918 |
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Страница 153 - ... their principles my own ; for these which have stood best the criticism of ages, are produced on principles of truth, and on no abstract notion of the sublime or beautiful. The artists were gifted with a keen perception of the beautiful of nature, and imitated it in simplicity and single-heartedness. They did not sit down, as the modern artist too often does, with a preconceived notion of what is or ought to be beautiful ; but their beau ideal was the choicest of nature. They often introduced...
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