Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...dead leaf with a hole in it appears more decayed than one that is entire, so some insects go to the extent of having what gives the impression of a hole upon the surface of their bodies. In one stage of development this hole is represented, as an artist would represent it on canvas, by a white spot, but in a more advanced stage, the spot becomes actually transparent...
...because it was Shakespeare. With this view no one can agree who reads his plays without prejudice. In them we find no trace of preaching or moralizing, but every character is allowed to speak for itself, without preference given or comment made. It is the work of a great artist, to whom life in all its manifold phases strongly appealed, and who was thus able to reproduce it with all the delightful charm of reality...
Composition, Mr. Smith said, is the most expressive and pleasing arrangement upon canvas of the details of a picture. This is the most important art in painting, and fixes the talent of the artist. There is but one law which governs the whole subject of composition, and that is the law of relation of the greater and lesser masses in a picture. The eye is first attracted by the greatest contrast, the greatest dark against the greatest light or vice versa, and then seeks another contrast more moderate in tone, and so on until the story of the painting...
...with the greatest favor by the students, and his coming will be impatiently awaited. And this for the simple reason that, although college men are fond of light opera and comedy, they yet have a deep respect for the better work of the stage, that work which demands fine artistic sense and a broader, nobler view of the possibilities of the theatrical art than is found in ordinary actors and actresses. There is a positive quality about all art that comes anywhere near perfection which commands respect and admiration; and the man who represents this best art, whether...
...transition in engraving from mediocre to supreme excellence has been very rapid in America. The early process, by which the draughtsman with infinite pains and difficulty reproduced upon wood the work of the painter, was soon replaced by the art of photographing directly upon the wood, and skilful artists began to take the place of the draughtsman. Three things were necessary to lift engraving from the difficult, expensive and unsatisfactory early process to that high position as an art which it has held for many years. These were, first, an artist, then an engraver, and last a magazine with taste...