The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 2Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1865 - American literature |
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... painting , then timidly asserting for itself an independent sphere , and lastly , in our days , rising to the dignity of an original fine art in which the spirit of the age reflects itself no less distinctly than in music and in poetry ...
... painting , then timidly asserting for itself an independent sphere , and lastly , in our days , rising to the dignity of an original fine art in which the spirit of the age reflects itself no less distinctly than in music and in poetry ...
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... painting . Speaking generally , we may discern two great classes into which this style divides itself . The one is con- tented with broad and simple effects of color , and of light shade , deliberately sacrificing all minor details in ...
... painting . Speaking generally , we may discern two great classes into which this style divides itself . The one is con- tented with broad and simple effects of color , and of light shade , deliberately sacrificing all minor details in ...
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... painting should be tedious , unintelligible , and insignificant to critics of this class . But every one can appre- ciate figure painting . Here we have a story , a glimpse of life , something with which our own nature renders us ...
... painting should be tedious , unintelligible , and insignificant to critics of this class . But every one can appre- ciate figure painting . Here we have a story , a glimpse of life , something with which our own nature renders us ...
Contents
Loves Appeal | 248 |
VisaVis or Harrys account of | 452 |
The Haunting Past | 508 |
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