Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hopkinson Smith gave the second lecture of his course last night on the subject of Out-door Sketching before an audience even larger than that of the night before. He said that every artist has his own ideas on out door work, and therefore what any one man can say must be rather his own ideas than a general treatment of the subject. Of course there are certain fixed laws of color and perspective, but as to how these may best be applied there is room for much dispute...
...question of local color is the hardest that comes to the artist. Things are not really the way they look. When we paint for example a summer scene, putting in all the rich greens and other bright colors, we get nothing approaching the true effect. Those artists who have been most successful in catching the salient points of a scene and in making it all true, use always soft colors, gray and yellow ochre. The best examples of this sort of work are the wonderful paintings of Cazin...
...light should be the same on another day, it is impossible to expect that the mood of a painter should be just the same. So he cannot see things in just the same way. To an expert a painting done on different days is a perfect almanac. So the artist must work quickly. His strokes must be accurate and he must know that they are right. Such little details as time of day, temperature, season of the year, and locality always are as plain in the work of a master as they would be to a man standing where...
There are three characteristics of modern decoration which deserve especial attention; the quality of vigor, homogeneousness of decoration, and violent foreshortening. Vigor, which has hardly received its fair share of attention, is a feature of decoration which the ancient artists greatly underrated and by exaggerating the importance of each muscle and member of the human frame greatly diminished the effectiveness of their ensemble. The modern artist has learned that simplicity is the most forcible mode of expressing vigor...
...styles which have developed of late. Formerly there was little choice in the matter of style, but now many a fine interior is completely spoiled by the combination of too many styles. The Hotel de Villi is a famous example of this fault. If homogeneous decoration is desired, the artist should always consider his architect...