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Some principles of every-day art: introductory chapters on the arts not fine (1890)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, Batsford · leaf 125

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that reminds one of Greek brush-work. It is significant of the connection between all aptworkmanship, that artists of two such distinctlydifferent types, working on such different principles, I 12 Every-day Art. and according to such different traditions, shouldarrive (the one from brush-work to… … Bird rendered in brush-strokes. one point. Hence it is that modern progress ismainly in the direction whither the old ways led.Design and workmanship have risen to a higherpoint, not when materials and tools have beendespised, but when apter, and more sympathetictreatment has been adopted, more…

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