Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent (1908)
Phythian, John Ernest, 1858- · London, G. Richards · leaf 309
relief from other colours, answer allhis purposes. The breadth of his treatment and the subtletyof the light and shade give that sense of reality, of life, thatwe have marked as one of the chief gains of art in the lasthalf-century. We are with these sailors toiling on and bythe sea, and these… … PAINTING IN OTHER COUNTRIES 241 consummate art, do not seem to us to come short of life itself.And it is not the mere externals of life that they set beforeus; they take us right to its feeling, loving heart. The awakening of Israels was not to be a solitary one inHolland. Christoffel Bisschop,…
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