The Whistler book : a monograph of the life and position in art of James McNeill Whistler, together with a careful study of his more important works (1910)
covering it. That in etching, the means used, or instru-ments employed, being the finest possiblepoint, the space to be covered should be smallin proportion. That all attempts to overstep the limitsinsisted upon such proportions are inartisticthoroughly, and tend to reveal the paucity ofthe means… … WAPPING, ON THE THAMES (ETCHING). In Quest of Line Expression 161 complishment a triumph of unthinking ear-nestness and uncontrolled energy — both en-dowments of the duffer. That the custom of Remarque emanatesfrom the amateur and reflects his foolish facil-ity beyond the border of his picture,…
Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903 · Painters
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