Impressionist Painting, Its Genesis and DevelopmentG. Newnes, limited, 1904 - 126 Seiten An excellent overview of the Impressionist movement, from its early influences of English landscapes by J.M.W. Turner and John Constable to the major Impressionist artists living and working in Paris. This volume includes illustrations, portraits and information about the significant painters from this period includingÉdouardManet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and August Renoir. Also included are lesser-known Impressionist painters such as Alfred Sisley, J.F. Raffaelli, Emile Claus and Childe Hassam. Written by English artist Wynford Dewhurst, this book was the first significant account of the Impressionist movement to be published in English. The author dedicated the publication to Claude Monet, who inspired his own art. |
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Seite 30 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Seite 30 - And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us...
Seite 30 - O mother Ida, many-fountain'd Ida, Dear mother Ida, harken ere I die. For now the noonday quiet holds the hill: The grasshopper is silent in the grass : The lizard, with his shadow on the stone, Rests like a shadow, and the winds are dead.
Seite 30 - THE sun is set ; the swallows are asleep ; The bats are flitting fast in the grey air ; The slow soft toads out of damp corners creep, And evening's breath, wandering here and there Over the quivering surface of the stream, Wakes not one ripple from its summer dream.
Seite 22 - Be not the first by whom the new is tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Seite 144 - ... the nude has always been represented in poses which presuppose an audience, but these women of mine are honest, simple folk, unconcerned by any other interests than those involved in their physical condition. Here is another; she is washing her feet. It is as if you looked through a key-hole.
Seite 30 - Set apart by them to complete their works, he produces that wondrous thing called the masterpiece, which surpasses in perfection all that they have contrived in what is called Nature ; and the Gods stand by and marvel, and perceive how far away more beautiful is the...
Seite 144 - But cynicism was the great means of eloquence of the Middle Ages; and with cynicism Degas has again rendered the nude an artistic possibility. Three coarse women, middle-aged and deformed by toil, are perhaps the most wonderful. One sponges herself in a tin bath; another passes a rough nightdress over her lumpy shoulders, and the touching ugliness of this poor human creature goes straight to the heart.
Seite 100 - CHEVREUL on Colour. Containing the Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours, and their Application to the Arts ; including Painting, Decoration, Tapestries, Carpets, Mosaics, Glazing, Staining, Calico Printing, Letterpress Printing, Map Colouring, Dress, Landscape and Flower Gardening, &c. Trans, by C. Martel. Several Plates. With an additional series of 16 Plates in Colours, 7$.
Seite 17 - Great men may jest with saints : 'tis wit in them ; But, in the less, foul profanation. Lucio. Thou'rt in the right, girl ; more o' that. Isab. That in the captain's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.