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Aims and ideals in art : eight lectures delivered to the students of the Royal academy (1906)

Clausen, George, 1852-1944 · London : Methuen & Co. · leaf 258

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Thepicture made, as it were, to order, from externalelements, however able it may be, is on a verymuch lower plane. And Rembrandt, Watteau,and Hogarth may on this ground be classed withthe imaginative painters. It is interesting tonotice in Hogarths work how expressive ishis painting, and how truly… … Importance of Subject and Treatment 181 In imaginative or creative work there may be,and often is, want of accord between subject andtreatment, because the subject is not really felt;but imagination is a rare gift. In literal work,which depends on the presentation of somethingseen, the artists task…

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