Word: artes
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Here's food for the easel! Oh, had I the art...
...will be much more likely to abuse us soundly for affectation. But if we sternly banish all lithographs from our rooms, in company with most chromos, and put these in their stead, we shall soon find an enjoyment before unknown to us in looking at these works of true art...
NOTHING can be learned from books on art which will take the place of the education given by daily access to real works of art. For this reason, all of us who are interested in art study - and these are not a few - have reason to rejoice on seeing the proofs of the first issue of Heliotypes from the Gray prints. About a dozen of these will be on sale, if not when this is read, at all events by the first of next week. The issue has been unexpectedly delayed by the fact that the prints cannot be removed...
...three months to come, while this photographing is going on, the collection cannot be shown. But this will hardly be regretted when it is considered that the result will be a number of excellent reproductions to be had at cost, and which will help greatly towards our art-education, as we may have them continually about...
...dissatisfied with the popular art productions which disfigure so many walls, in the shape of decidedly "unpleasant" females in most unadvisable attitudes, - now clinging or "wopsing" about a cross, and now simply "gawking" at vacuity, - may not at first quite sympathize with these admirable fac-similes. The above-mentioned females, currently called Faith, Charity, Hope, or Liberty, often have a surface prettiness that must not be sought in a real work of art. Rembrandt and Durer never made pretty pictures, any more than Shakespeare wrote "nice" poetry...