y ob-tiusive: they rest the eye-rather than concentratethe attention, while theupright line in the figureof the woman greatlyaccentuates by force ofcontrast the horizontallines in the landscape onwhich the graduation thatgives the feeling of dis-tance depends. Theprospect, overlooking PortSt. Mary,… … MY NATIVE STREAM. from an oilpainting by R. MACAULAY STEVENSON. Studio-Talk intimately familiar with the subject for an importantpicture before he ventures on transcription ; it mustremain his daily visual and mental pabulum fora period, before the idea is conceived of represent-ing it on canvas.…
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