Artist and public, and other essays on art subjects (1914)
Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919 · London, G. Allen & Unwin ltd · leaf 82
im-memorial types of humanity whose laborshave endured since the world began andwere essentially what they now arewhen Virgil wrote his Georgics andwhen Jacob kept the flocks of Laban.This is the note of all his work. It isthe permanent, the essential, the eter-nally significant that he paints. The… … - a -aH JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET raphaelites were trying to found a greatart on the exhaustive imitation of nat-ural detail, he eliminated detail asmuch as possible. At the very beginningof our modern preoccupation with thedirect representation of facts, he aban-doned study from the model almost…
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