French art, classic and contemporary, painting and sculpture (1901)
Brownell, W. C. (William Crary), 1851-1928 · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 241
ple, but every one identifies a Degas asimmediately and as certainly as he does a Whistler. His workis perfectly sincere and admirably intelMgent. It has neitherthe pose nor the irresponsibility of the impressionists. Hisartistic apotheosis of the baUet-girl is merely the result of hishappy… … THE NEW TOIXPUBUC UBRART REALISTIC PAINTING if the substance upon which it is exercised were not theacme of the exotic, and abeady arranged with the mostelaborate conventionahty. Nothing indeed could be more op-posed to the elementary crudity of impressionism than hisdistinction and refinement,…
Art, French · Painting, French · Sculpture, French
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