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Modern paintings as seen and described by great writers (1911)

Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, compiler, editor · New York : Dodd, Mead & Company · leaf 102

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, or theox. Assuredly, individuality is more strongly accentuated inhim than in the animal or the plant, since he subjects the formerand utilises the other. But from the point of view of art, heis found to be simply the highest term of a series which beginswith the vegetable to end with him, the… … LES GLANEUSES 69 movement, he harmonises with the nature around him, in hiscostume, his walk, and his attitudes. In the fields where heworks or rests, he is magnificent in colour, form and bearing;everywhere else he is grotesque and ugly. On the other hand,townspeople transported into a landscape…

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