Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists: WhistlerThe Roycrofters, 1902 - 60 Seiten |
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Abbey Barbizon Barbizon School Bartolomeo beautiful Benvenuto Bertel Bertel Thorwaldsen boat born called Camille Cellini child Church Claude Corot dark death DESIGNED BY SAMUEL draw East Aurora Elbert Hubbard EMINENT ARTISTS ENDETH THE LITTLE England ERIE COUNTY eyes face father Florence Gainsborough gave genius Gentile Bellini gentle Gian Bellini Giorgione gondolier hand heart Homes of EMINENT honor horse hundred King knew landscape Leonardo Leonardo da Vinci LITTLE JOURNEYS lived look master MCMII Michael Angelo mother never night Olivares once Pacheco paint painter passed Perugino Philip Pope portrait pose pupils Raphael Rome ROYCROFTERS Rubens Ruskin SAMUEL WARNER sent sketches soap soul stand studio sure Thicknesse things Thomas Gainsborough Thorwaldsen thought Titian told took turned Vasari Velasquez wanted Whistler White Pigeon wife woman write WRITTEN BY ELBERT wrote young
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Seite 128 - 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 127 - Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artist is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful - as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he bring forth from chaos glorious harmony.
Seite 72 - I have taught you ; do your best with all despatch, for the metal will soon be fused. You cannot go wrong; these honest men will get the channels ready; you will easily be able to drive back the two plugs with this pair of iron crooks ; and I am sure that mould will fill miraculously. I feel more ill than I ever did in all my life, and verily believe that it will kill me before a few hours are over.
Seite 125 - The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, as pleasingly exemplified in many instances wherein the serious ones of this earth, carefully exasperated, have been prettily spurred on to unseemliness and indiscretion, while overcome by an undue sense of right." The dedication runs thus: " To the rare Few who early in life have rid themselves of the Friendship of the Many, these pathetic papers are inscribed.
Seite 126 - And presently there came to this man another and in time others of like nature, chosen by the gods; and so they worked together; and soon they fashioned from the moistened earth forms resembling the gourd. And with the power of creation, the heirloom of the artist, presently they went beyond the slovenly suggestion of Nature, and the first vase was born in beautiful proportion. And the toilers tilled and were athirst; and the heroes returned from fresh victories to rejoice and to feast; and all drank...
Seite 128 - The holiday-maker rejoices in the glorious day, and the painter turns aside to shut his eyes. How little this is understood, and how dutifully the casual in Nature is accepted as sublime, may be gathered from the unlimited admiration daily produced by a very foolish sunset.
Seite 70 - I had prepared many months beforehand, in order that it might be duly seasoned. After making its clay tunic (for that is the term used in this art) and properly arming it and fencing it with iron girders, I began to draw the wax out by means of a slow fire. This melted and issued through numerous air-vents I had made; for the more there are of these, the better will the mould fill.
Seite 128 - He does not confine himself to purposeless copying, without thought, each blade of grass, as commended by the inconsequent, but in the long curve of the narrow leaf, corrected by the straight, tall stem, he learns how grace is wedded to dignity, how strength enhances sweetness, that elegance shall be the result. In the citron wing of the pale butterfly, with its dainty spots of orange, he sees before him the stately halls of fair gold, with their slender saffron pillars, and is taught how the delicate...
Seite 127 - The sun blares, the wind blows from the east, the sky is bereft of cloud, and without, 'all is of iron. The windows of the Crystal Palace are seen from all points of London. The holiday-maker rejoices in the glorious day, and the painter turns aside to shut his eyes.
Seite 128 - In the citron wing of the pale butterfly, with its dainty spots of orange, he sees before him the stately halls of fair gold, with their slender saffron pillars, and is taught how the delicate drawing high upon the walls shall be traced in tender tones of orpiment, and repeated by the base in notes of graver hue.