world is the expression of invisiblemind ; that tangible beauty in. art is theharmonious issue of a union between theseer and the seen. It is a perilous theoryfor a painter ; he leaves the firm groundof his objective art, and plunges into thetroubled waters of poetry. But the wayhas been prepared… … SONG OF eveningOIL PAINTING BVW. SHACKLETON days into doubtful by-paths, whipping himwhere he should have been led. Thecommonplace allegorical art of G. F.Watts first attracted him, for the beginnerfinds great difficulty in discriminatingbetween rhetorical grandeur and that truespaciousness of…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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