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Still in the same linear method, but with constantly growing understanding of its limits, are the early Dutchmen, Zeeman and van Velde, who introduced the water of canals and the texture of buildings. Much better is Jacob Ruysdael, who brought into etching his mastery of tree forms and fields. Pure landscape, however, in line etching, seems finally attained by Claude Lorrain...
Hung on opposite walls are masterpieces of the painter's early and middle styles: Lady at the Piano, painted in 1879, an example of the purest Renoir radiance, and Mine Renoir Nursing Pierre, in which the artist used flat, dry colors and a linear definition of forms very different from the technique by which he is commonly known. The same room contains a bronze relief, done in 1914, of a painting. The Judgment of Paris, done in 1908 and now the property of Actor Charles Laughton. Racked by arthritis during the last 20 years of his life, Renoir...
...Liebermann matures, his style becomes more and more linear, the tonality becomes lighter and a freshness and power of draftsmanship appears. Prints of horse racing and polo games illustrate masterful drawing and a vigorous rendering of figures in violent motion...
...Book of Chronicles" rather than a "Book of Revelation" is Berton Braley's description of his autobiography. Despite the sniffs of critics, Braley has made a good living out of what some people call "poetry." He has published nearly 9,000 "poems" or, according to his reckoning, ten linear miles of poetic feet...
...course of his not too nostalgic childhood reminiscences Author Mackenzie takes his readers the length of a Victorian London street, introduces them to as engaging a troupe of well-to-do householders as ever went to market to buy fat pigs. Memories of their sooty black houses, architecturally linear and flat, are prettily three-dimensionalized by little whirlwinds of domestic perturbations spiralling, like smoke from the chimney-pots, above every roof...