Thoughts About Art
Thoughts About Art
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French artists are, as a body, clear-sighted as to constructive truth in figures and animals, but blind to the truths of colour and to con- * Some critics have spoken of my own work as topographic. I have tried to do pure topography, but soon abandoned it for two reasons — first, the drawing, though demonatrably accurate, never satisfied any unprepared spectator ; second, it never satisfied myself. After that I determined to draw landscape as it appeared to me, in a simple unreasoning frame of ...mind. To produce pure topography one must be in a highly artificial and «elf.conscious sUte of the coldest scientific tranquillity.
H s 258 THOUGHTS ABOUT AR T, structive truths in landscape. In Art we easily perceive the blindness of others, but do not so easily detect our own ; if we began to be aware of it, that dawning consciousness would be a proof that our darkness was passing away, and the light of fresh truth breaking in upon us.
7. Difficulty of finding out when we are ourselves artistically blind, — ^There is a pretty theory that the spirits of the dead may often be with us in our daily life, but ^at the dulness of our grosser sense hinders us from beholding our ethereal visitants.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
French artists are, as a body, clear-sighted as to constructive truth in figures and animals, but blind to the truths of colour and to con- * Some critics have spoken of my own work as topographic. I have tried to do pure topography, but soon abandoned it for two reasons — first, the drawing, though demonatrably accurate, never satisfied any unprepared spectator ; second, it never satisfied myself. After that I determined to draw landscape as it appeared to me, in a simple unreasoning frame of ...mind. To produce pure topography one must be in a highly artificial and «elf.conscious sUte of the coldest scientific tranquillity.
H s 258 THOUGHTS ABOUT AR T, structive truths in landscape. In Art we easily perceive the blindness of others, but do not so easily detect our own ; if we began to be aware of it, that dawning consciousness would be a proof that our darkness was passing away, and the light of fresh truth breaking in upon us.
7. Difficulty of finding out when we are ourselves artistically blind, — ^There is a pretty theory that the spirits of the dead may often be with us in our daily life, but ^at the dulness of our grosser sense hinders us from beholding our ethereal visitants.
What to read after Thoughts About Art?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Philip Gilbert Hamerton to read onlineMoreLess
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