Essays on Art |
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Author:
| Palgrave, Francis Turner |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-47289-0 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF 1865 A Good average Exhibition; a more than common number of interesting subjects; fewer of glaring failures, except in the sculpture; two or three instances of steady advance, and more than as many of abilities mistakenly directed? such might be given as the summary of the year's...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF 1865 A Good average Exhibition; a more than common number of interesting subjects; fewer of glaring failures, except in the sculpture; two or three instances of steady advance, and more than as many of abilities mistakenly directed? such might be given as the summary of the year's Royal Academy, if an individual impression of this nature have any value. Or we might look at the Exhibition from another point of view, and say that the advance of the English School is so smooth and steady as to be almost imperceptible. Pre-Raphaelitism, whether in its genuine or its imitative form, is now little to be seen; and all the painters whose work could not come near the Huguenot in precision and delicacy, accompanied by a chorus of Academical critics, are congratulating Mr. Millais upon the change, much as the young lady in that masterpiece, with her good father confessor, would have blessed her lover had he reconciled himself to Holy Mother Church. Examples of Continental influence are also rare, and all that we heard, two years ago, of the recognized necessity for improving our design and toning down our colour has apparently gone back across the Channel, leaving indigenous merit to make its way after its well-known insular fashion. Great artists in France have their scholars, who are trained for years, as M. Paul Flandrin, for example, was trained by Ingres, in all the difficulties of art, before the pupils produce any independent work of their own; but in our more favoured island, where art grows of itself, this laborious process is happily dispensed with, and every fashionable painter, or favourite of a close coterie of initiated flatterers, has at once a tail of imitators as long and almost as brilliant as the comet. Failures of the glaring sort, on the other ...