Painting in France, after the decline of classicism. An essay (1901)
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 88
nd dangerous to fine art.That De Jonghe should have been able to illustratethe sentiments of piety* and philo-progenitiveness * There is not space to investigate the matter here; but it isa fact that almost all art which is devoted directly to piety ordomestic sentiment is, as art, execrably vulgar… … De Jonghe. 77 without incurring the least taint of bourgeois vulgarityis the strongest possible proof of his true artisticrefinement and delicate sense of what is worthy ofhis art. A vulgar artist, being himself a Philistine,paints bourgeois subjects with the insensitiveness ofPhilistinism; a…
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