Word: arts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Smith said that the 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...
...Hopkinson Smith lectured to a very large audience last night on American Illustrators. He said in the past fifteen years American illustration has been steadily improving. Its defects have constantly grown less, and it has become more and more a fine art. Its characteristic feature is that it is almost entirely in black and white. Americans have no time to learn to be masters of color. What is needed for that is long periods of doing nothing but absorbing the beauty of nature, studying sunsets and color effects. What all modern illustrators aim at is "tone," that...
Frederic Remington is as unique in art as Rudyard Kipling in literature. He is perfectly true to nature, and he is so intimately acquainted with what he draws, that is chiefly scenes of Western life, that he brings out always the chief characteristics of his subject...
...stands out as a man who has always found his subjects at home. He has succeeded in showing that there is as much beauty on the rocky shores of Maine as there is in Venice. There are many other artists who have done much to further the development of art in America, but there is no space to give them...
Illustration is an art great in conception and execution, and it has a great influence on civilization, not only as teaching the love of the beautiful, but also as correcting many perverted ideas...