Nature, or in other words, what is particular and uncommon, can be acquired only by experience ; and the whole beauty and grandeur of the art consists, in my opinion, in being able to get above all singular forms, local customs, particularities, and details... The Brain - Página 79editado por - 291 páginasVista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro
| Richard I. Doyle - 2001 - 150 páginas
...that painting should strive "to obtain knowledge of an object, not as a particular / Constable wrote in his Discourses: "The whole beauty and grandeur of art consists ... in being able to get above ... particularities of every kind ... [to] ... make out an abstract idea of their forms more perfect... | |
| Thomas Keymer, Jon Mee - 2004 - 332 páginas
...historical particularity obnoxious to pleasure: 'the whole beauty of the art consists, in my opinion, in being able to get above all singular forms, local customs, particularities, and details of every kind.'9 William Blake, on the other hand, responded to that thought thus in his... | |
| Inga Bryden - 1998 - 312 páginas
...acquired only by experience; and the whole beauty and grandeur of the art consists, in my opinion, in being able to get above all singular forms, local customs, particularities, and details of every kind. All the objects which are exhibited to our view by nature, upon close examination... | |
| Bernard Schweizer - 2006 - 348 páginas
...the minute details of reality: "[T]he whole beauty and grandeur of the art consists, in my opinion, in being able to get above all singular forms, local customs, particularities, and details of every kind."18 And again: "[T]he usual and most dangerous error is on the side of minuteness;... | |
| Walter L. Adamson - 2007 - 448 páginas
...art in a rationalist world is best illustrated for England by Sir Joshua Reynolds, whose belief that "art consists ... in being able to get above all singular forms, local customs, particularities, and details of every kind" put him at antipodes to the true national spirit.39 For France, Read's typical... | |
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