Pen drawing and pen draughtsmen : their work and their methods : a study of the art today with technical suggestions (1920)
Pennell, Joseph, 1857-1926 · New York : Macmillan · leaf 404
ortrait ofhimself by Matisse is worthless, and that if his nude isart, study is useless. Only in a decayed world madesafe for amateurs, poseurs and incompetents, wouldsuch things be accepted, as they are today, but it isthe end of the day, or the end of artlessness, and Matisseis its prophet.… … MARQUET DOES it express theboat, or the tree,or the smoke, or theopposite shore? Is itdone with the faultlessskill of Hiroshige? Orof the old Chinese? Itis copied from theirwork, and badly, butthat is its only merit. GAUGAIN LINE proves instant-ly and conclusivelywhether one can drawor not, whether…
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