Modern paintings as seen and described by great writers (1911)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, compiler, editor · New York : Dodd, Mead & Company · leaf 142
lies be-tween life and death. If the subject itself taxed the painter and his art, myjhumble office of endeavouring to illustrate it in words is,whether as concerns the means at hand or the fitness of thewriter, commensurately unpromising and difficult. In sucha case the critic is even more… … Beata Beatrix BEATA BEATRIX IOi of the picture finds utterance in that which may be calledthe poetry of its colouration, and the chromatic scheme ofthe work is not only in harmony with the pathos of thewhole, but an essential portion of the design, and, as such,was with the utmost solicitude and…
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