Aims and ideals of representative American painters (1901)
Rummell, John, Berlin, Emma Medora · Buffalo, N. Y. : E. M. Berlin · leaf 34
t all so dis-posed that from almost no point of viewa good pictorial composition can bemade by literal imitation. The artistthen simply paints the character of theplace, introducing such lines, such ob-jects, and such color effects as are sug-gestive of the spot where he is sketch-ing. In other… … IV. T is precisely this matter of rbepre- ; artistic selection that most ^me upo« Hmen- people fail to understand, can painters.No doubt the eloquent, butoftentimes erroneous, teaching of JohnRuskin in regard to the study of Naturehas misled both artists and laymen. Itis certain that in France it…
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