Landscape painting and modern Dutch artists (1906)
Greenshields, E. B. (Edward Black), 1850- · New York Baker and Taylor · leaf 270
streams under the green trees, andsometimes he gives us views of the RiverMerwerde, with boats sailing on its watersand windmills built on its banks. Somepeople complain that in his later work thecattle are not carefully enough drawn. Thisis done with an object, and not from wantof knowledge or… … WILLIAM MARIS 175 photographic accuracy. But that would de-stroy his object, which is to represent thelandscape as a whole, bathed in atmosphere,and to get this result sacrifices have to bemade. The lower truth of photographic accu-racy must be dispensed with, but the wholecharacter of the animals…
Greenshields, E. B. (Edward Black), 1850 · Landscape painting · Painting, Dutch
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