 | Arthur Symons - 1924 - 262 Seiten
...this laSt touch of improvisation into his portrait. He succeeded, but at the coSt of what pains ? " All trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared," after how formidable, how unrelaxing a labour 1 It is the aim of Whistler, as of so much modern art,... | |
 | Fred Wellington Ruckstull - 1925 - 742 Seiten
...Pike Lucas. We repeat, there are two manners of painting: one impersonal, described by Whistler: "A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared." In this he simply echoed Baudelaire, at whose feet Whistler used to sit, according to Huneker, and,... | |
 | Fred Wellington Ruckstull - 1925 - 746 Seiten
...Beauty of technique, yes! and everybody knows what makes it, Whistler has stated it very clearly: A picture is finished] when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared. The most profound thing he ever said. Unfortunately, he was such an inconsistent jade, that he did... | |
 | Arthur Symons - 1925 - 112 Seiten
...picture they can certainly be as beautiful as stars and sunsets. A picture is finished, said Whistler, "when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared." No one so rarely failed to know when that moment had come; but in two studies of a model on a couch,... | |
 | 1899 - 674 Seiten
...are reminded of his apposite saying that a work of art, whether it be in literature or in painting, is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared. •t One of the prominent characters that appear in Richard Carvel is Paul Jones. Search has been made... | |
 | Elsie Bonita Adams - 1971 - 232 Seiten
...Theatre, p. 289. 8. Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters, p. 596. Cf. Whistler, The Gentle Art, p. 115: "A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about an end has disappeared." See also Pater, Marius, in Works, 2:97-98. 9. Quoted from the Daily Telegraph... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 Seiten
...value the finest head cut upon a carrot. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labor, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view. James McNeil! Whistler (1834-1903) American... | |
 | Scott Wilcox, Christopher Newall - 1992 - 206 Seiten
...In the catalogue of the 1884 exhibition he published his Propositions - No. 2, in which he stated: A picture is finished when all trace of the means used...is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view. . . . The work of the master reeks not of the sweat of the brow suggests no effort - and is finished... | |
 | Frank Lobdell, Timothy Anglin Burgard, Walter Hopps - 2003 - 430 Seiten
...effort have to be evident and acknowledged. In fact, as James McNeill Whistler tartly observed, "A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared." But how does the artist reach the level of competence where his ability bears fruit in consistent achievement?... | |
 | Sarah Walden - 2003 - 268 Seiten
...practice. He liked to expatiate on the supreme importance of never seeing the work in a painting: 'A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.'35 To some extent he was reacting to the dull but dogged craftsmanship of the Pre-Raphaelites,... | |
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To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view. 
