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Handbook to the Fine Art Collections in the International Exhibition of 1862

Handbook to the Fine Art Collections in the International Exhibition of 1862

Palgrave, Francis Turner

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1150774509
ISBN13: 9781150774508
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.13 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1862 Excerpt: ... HANDBOOK TO THE AKT COLLECTIONS THE ENGLISH SCHOOL OF OIL-PAINTING READ or not read, a few words of Preface must be given, to tell the plan and principles of this little book. Among spectators in all galleries of art two phrases are constantly heard, that toe knoio nothing about Painting, and that tastes cannot be disputed. The writer intends here to make war against both of them. So far as mere information is concerned, very little is needed to understand really good Art. What we want, in fact, is rather to forget than to remember. Let a man come with a true open heart, putting away the fine learned phrases he may have heard and supersubtle reasons for admiring commonplace and charlatanry, and asking himself always, whilst he sees pictures, whether they are like Nature, and when away, which pictures dwell on his memory; and he will soon find the discernment of the good and the less good growing up within him. A temper ready to love and quick to admire, patient in comparison, but firmly holding what is clearly true to Nature, is the sure groundwork for good taste, and he who comes thus, cannot fail so far as he sees, to see truly. It is not meant that experience or time can be dispensed with. The greatness of Art is accurately proportioned to the quantity of the facts, and the force of the thoughts, it conveys: it teaches us by every fresh work whilst it delights us: we are always learning more, from it while more admiring it. To be very simple and very subtle at once, is one of the many apparent paradoxes of all Genius: ' it may bring the message of Angels, but its voice is the downright voice of children. Good Art is straightforward and intelligible in its first B FINE elements to all who bring ears to hear or eyes to see, whilst, like the Nature it imitat...

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