Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent (1908)
Phythian, John Ernest, 1858- · London, G. Richards · leaf 171
l.The horses are fine in action and in animal character. Thejockeys and the spectators are convincingly true. The meredrawing of an open carriage becomes a miracle under hishand. Yet there is no laboured definition. The theatre scenes, which came later, are marvels ofcolour, light, gesture, and… … DANSEUSES EN SCENE EDGAKD DEGAS THE IMPRESSIONISTS AND THEIR ALLIES 123 The splendour—the barbaric splendour of the ballet, shallwe say?—has been transferred to paper or canvas so as tolose little of its actuality, so as to seem hardly a motionlessimitation of the thing itself. Witness the picture…
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