Artist and public, and other essays on art subjects (1914)
Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919 · London, G. Allen & Unwin ltd · leaf 88
did in their slow perfec-tioning of certain fixed types he has donealmost at once. We have no longer aman sowing, but The Sower (PI. 2),justifying the title he instinctively gaveit by its air of permanence, of inevitabil-ity, of universality. All the significancewhich there is or ever has been for… … JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET power since Michelangelo created hisAdam? If even Millet never again attained quitethe august impressiveness of this pictureit is because no other action of rusticman has so wide or so deep a meaningfor us as this of sowing. All the meaningthere is in an action he could make…
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