Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent (1908)
Phythian, John Ernest, 1858- · London, G. Richards · leaf 465
ts of light under unclouded skies. Mr. Steer is atrue son of the land of cloud and mist. The alternate lightand shadow on a landscape overhung by slowly moving,detached masses of cloud, the blaze of light in clear or mistyair, when the spectator faces the sun, trees brilliantlyilluminated by the… … PAINTING IN GREAT BRITAIN 373 infinite detail, and the broken, crumbly colour ensures thesense of atmospheric vibration. The pictures do not lackcomposition, but it is not so much a design traced on thesurface of the canvas, which it is the artists purpose to makeus forget, as such an arrangement…
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