...of the views of the Impressionist School — remarks that " to say of a picture, as is often said in praise, that it shows great and earnest labour is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view." Now if words are to hold their ordinary meaning, this seems on the face of it to be arrant nonsense,...

...of the views of the Impressionist School — remarks that " to say of a picture, as is often said in praise, that it shows great and earnest labour is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view." Now if words are to hold their ordinary meaning, this seems on the face of it to be arrant nonsense,...

...paucity of invention or lack of ideas. Whistler, in one of his catalogues, makes this remark : — " To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise,...shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is inFIG. 29. — EXAMPLE OF BRUSH-WORK. complete and unfit for view. Industry in art is a necessity,...

...maxims, gathered by the pupils in the Académie Whistler, as they fell from the lips of the master: A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared. Industry in art is a necessity — not a virtue — and any evidence of the same in the production...

...of perpetual interest to his critics, he offers in his work the proof of Mr. Whistler's maxim, that "a picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared." I am aware of the danger in approaching Mr. Sargent along these cheerful lines. For the last two or...

...processes ; so that we may say, on the authority of all the masterpieces, that a picture is finished only when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared. THEODORE CHILD, in the Atlantic Monthly. Ars longa vita brevis. Art is long and life is short. So Longfellow...

...processes ; so that we may say, on the authority of all the masterpieces, that a picture is finished only when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared. Taking Millet's work as a whole, its chief interest is moral and literary rather than artistic ; the...

...PAINTINGS FOR THE MENDELSSOHN GLEE CLUB. BY ROYAL CORTISSOZ. MR. WHISTLER has laid it down as an axiom that "a picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared"; and, ringing the changes on this excellent prop- m . osition, he goes on to assure us that "the work...

...creed. It is a finished picture, qualifying as such even under the rigid rule he has laid down — "A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared." The sweet, placid face of the seated figure — the folded hands, the black and white of dress and...

..."Rossetti, take out the picture and frame the sonnet !" Almost a new axiom is announced in the sentence: "A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared." Incidents are entertaining, as when Whistler drags a sitter over Paris to find a brown necktie that...