fineimaginative work, where things and personswhom we know to be unreal are presented witha degree of reality which is exactly proportionedto the expression desired, yet in no way suggestingliteral imitation. In fine taste, as in his othergreat qualities, he was, I think, the greatestartist of his… … aO ^ DRAWING DRAWING is an obvious convention, forwe do not see lines round or upon objects,but one tint adjusted against another.Yet it comes more naturally to us to representthings by this convention of lines than by tonesand gradations, such as a photograph fromnature gives us. Primitive people…
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