itements of virtuosity. Painters arc indanger nowadays of forgetting that the best art isthe middle quality between a thought and athing. Such mystical dreamers as MatthewMaris have left us nothing but the thought, alltoo subtly suggested for the sake of a specialsort of beauty. Such unemotional… … Muste du LuxembourgL\ PENSfeE human, this essential eomproniise, modern artseems for the most part too self-conscious, tooself-sulTicient, to ever C|uitc attain. Objectivity is the main characteristic of thecontemporary naturalists, and this is true of theportrait painters, the painters of genre…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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