Essays on ArtSmith, Elder, & Company, 1879 - 253 páginas |
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Albert Durer antique art of Italy artist beauty Bellini black chalk Blake British Museum character colour complete composition Corot Crown 8vo Cruikshank delicate distinct drawings Durer's earlier effect English engraving examples executed exhibited expression face fact feeling figures finished Flaxman Florence Florentine flowers genius Gentile Bellini GEORGE CRUIKSHANK gift grace Greek art hand head human ideal illustrations imagination imitation impression individual influence interesting invention Jacopo Bellini Keats kind labour landscape landscape art Lorenzo di Credi Mantegna masters Michael Angelo Millet modern movement Museum nature never nuages gris nude Oliver Twist painter painting passion peasant perceive perfect picture poet poetic poetry portrait portraiture possessed present qualities Raphael realise reality realm Rubens rustic scarcely scene scenery sculpture sense sentiment shadow simplicity sketches spirit splendid style suggestion sympathy things thought tints tion Titian truth utterance Venice verse vision Walker
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Página 32 - Ah, happy, happy boughs ! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu ; And, happy melodist, unwearied, For ever piping songs for ever new ; More happy love ! more happy, happy love ! For ever warm and still to be enjoyed, For ever panting, and for ever young ; All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.
Página 46 - Poetry consists in these conceptions; and shall painting be confined to the sordid drudgery of facsimile representations of merely mortal and perishing substances and not be, as poetry and music are, elevated into its own proper sphere of invention and visionary conception? No, it shall not be so! Painting, as well as poetry and music, exists and exults in immortal thoughts.
Página 72 - Still melting there, and with voluptuous pain (O to forget her!) thrilling through my heart! Song, beauty, youth, love, virtue, joy ; this group Of bright ideas, flowers of paradise, As yet unforfeit ! in one blaze we bind, Kneel and present it to the skies, as all We guess of heaven: and these were all her own.
Página 31 - Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare ; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve ; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair ! 20 Ah, happy, happy boughs!
Página 32 - Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone : Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare ; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal — yet, do not grieve ; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Página 28 - As when, upon a tranced summer-night, Those green-robed senators of mighty woods, Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars, Dream, and so dream all night without a stir, Save from one gradual solitary gust Which comes upon the silence, and dies off, As if the ebbing air had but one wave...
Página 58 - These Pictures, among numerous others painted for experiment, were the result of temptations and perturbations, labouring to destroy Imaginative power, by means of that Infernal machine, called Chiaro Oscuro, in the hands of Venetian and Flemish Demons...
Página 57 - nd in exultation, rise through the air with their children and families, some of whom are bowing before the Book of Life, which is opened on clouds by two Angels: many groups arise in exultation; among them is a figure crowned with stars, and the moon beneath her feet, with six infants around her — she represents the Christian Church. The Green hills appear beneath with the graves of the blessed, which are seen bursting with their births of immortality; parents and children, wives and husbands,...
Página 46 - A spirit and a vision are not, as the modern philosophy supposes, a cloudy vapour or a nothing; they are organized and minutely articulated beyond all that the mortal and perishing nature can produce. He who does not imagine in stronger and better lineaments, and in stronger and better light than his perishing mortal eye can see, does not imagine at all.
Página 59 - ... for I have now discovered that without nature before the painter's eye, he can never produce anything in the walks of natural painting. Historical designing is one thing, and portrait - painting another : and they are as distinct as any two arts can be.