Category: Art
realism—The old masters as realists—And the Dutch painters—Absolute realism impossible—The real and truth defined—Art a series of signs—Recognizing the convention—In poetry, music, and painting—Grasping the artist’s intention—Realism merely the elaboration of the sign—Millet _...
realism—The old masters as realists—And the Dutch painters—Absolute realism impossible—The real and truth defined—Art a series of signs—Recognizing the convention—In poetry, mus...
2. CHAPTER II. _Individuality or the Personal 31Element._—The personal equation—Variations in handwritings—Different points of view—Different views of landscape—Sketches of the model in the class-room—Variations in portraitur...
3. CHAPTER III. _Imagination of the Artist._—The act 60of seeing—Perception—Unconscious seeing—Colors as seen by the ancients—Seeing the model—Necessity of imaginative seeing—The imagination as ordinarily employed—As employed in por...
4. CHAPTER IV. _Pictorial Poetry._—The argument for 87poetry in art—Ideas suitable for different arts—Confusion of mediums of expression—Pictorial poetry not literary poetry—Painting deals with forms and colors, not sound—Millet’s...
5. CHAPTER V. _The Decorative Quality._—Disagreement 114between the painter and the public—The “average person” in the gallery—The painter in the gallery—Art as representation _vs._ art as decoration—The artist devoted to the decorat...
6. CHAPTER VI. _Subject in Painting._—Art for the 139artist—The voice of the public in the work of art—The old masters working for the Church—Various views of art held by artists—Partisan views and their advocates—Extravagant view...
7. CHAPTER ITHOSE people who go out into the highways of art crying, Haro! Haro! in the name of realism, would certainly gain their cause could numbers give them a verdict. They have always...
8. CHAPTER IITHE fact that “the report about nature” which we have called “truth” varies with the reporter is of vital importance to us in comprehending the measure of exactness in the resul...
9. CHAPTER IIIIN our consideration of the varying points of view held by painters we have been placing the responsibility for the variations upon the human eye. The argument has been that peo...
10. CHAPTER IVTIME was, and not very long ago at that, when an argument for poetic thought in art would have been considered superfluous. Everyone was agreed that the higher aim of language w...
11. CHAPTER VWE could easily settle, _ex cathedra_, this matter of art if our views were the only ones to be considered; but, unfortunately, intelligent people differ with us, and the painte...
12. CHAPTER VIIT has been intimated, more than once in these lectures, that the artist, deep down in his heart, has no great respect for the public’s taste concerning works of art. He has alw...