htsman puts lines where there are none innature. The great draughtsman is he that, infollowing and searching nature with his keenpoint, has found the line which reveals the most,laying open with a sensitive hand the appearancesof things. The hand in The Mill has given upall sensibility, recognising… … and oil-paint is no longer to remain recalcitrant and hardly tobe wooed into any submission, certain it is that in the veryfirst pictures they exhibited Mr. Orpen and Mr. McEvoy haveshown a remarkable power of making paint do what they wish.Before pictures so accomplished—in the face of the…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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