Word: ruskinism
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...have we neglected Ruskin's art theories. One of us - a man of true philosophic and artistic feeling - has produced a frying-pan, ornamented with the most aesthetic and subtle designs in bas-relief...
...year two more courses in Art. The History of Art will probably be continued in a higher course under Mr. Norton, and a second and higher course in the principles of Drawing will be established. What is now Art I. will continue to devote an hour a week to Ruskin's "Modern Painters" and four hours to drawing, while the higher course will take up as text-books other works of Ruskin, probably Sir Joshua Reynolds's "Discourses," and possibly the "Treatise on Art," by Leonardo da Vinci...
...what the author means is that "a person who in a materialistic age is willing to renounce all pleasures but those derived from the possession of a good conscience and the contemplation of virtue had better retire to the wilds of Mount Athos or to the society of Mr. Ruskin...
...refined merits of color; certainly there are none of the subtle qualities of the Velasquez head. Two landscapes by Salvator Rosa (Nos. 25 and 26) are interesting - especially when compared with the Turners in Mr. Norton's collection of last spring - as illustrating the truth of what Mr. Ruskin says of Salvator's morose fierceness of temper, nourished in the wild, melancholy Calabrian hills, and failing to see in them anything that was not gross and terrible. No. 26, the city on the hill with snow-capped mountains rising over it, serves indeed as the recorded defect of mediaeval landscape...
COMMENCEMENT parts - are as follows: W. R. Tyler, Disquisition on Ruskin's Art Theories; F. J. Stone, Dissertation on Socialism in its Connection with Labor Reform; E. F. Fenollosa, Disquisition on Pantheism; T. L. Sewall, Dissertation on the English Agricultural Laborer; G. Wigglesworth, Oration on Joseph II.; C. F. Withington, Disquisition on Tragedy, Classical and Romantic...