Discourses Delivered to the Students of the Royal AcademySeeley & Company, 1905 - 445 Seiten |
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... suppose that this argues a lack of critical power on Reynolds ' part is unfair ; he was the child of his time , and his caution prevented him from venturing on what would have appeared impossible paradoxes to his contemporaries . Rather ...
... suppose that this argues a lack of critical power on Reynolds ' part is unfair ; he was the child of his time , and his caution prevented him from venturing on what would have appeared impossible paradoxes to his contemporaries . Rather ...
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... suppose they want any help in the initiatory studies . My present design is to direct your view to distant excellence , and to show you the readiest path that leads to it . Of this I shall speak with such latitude , as may leave the ...
... suppose they want any help in the initiatory studies . My present design is to direct your view to distant excellence , and to show you the readiest path that leads to it . Of this I shall speak with such latitude , as may leave the ...
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... suppose that the complication of powers and variety of ideas necessary to that mind which aspires to the first honours in the Art of Painting , can be obtained by the frigid contemplation of a few single models , is no less absurd ...
... suppose that the complication of powers and variety of ideas necessary to that mind which aspires to the first honours in the Art of Painting , can be obtained by the frigid contemplation of a few single models , is no less absurd ...
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... suppose your attendance to be constant ) , you would endeavour to draw the figure by memory . I will even venture to add , that by perse- verance in this custom , you will become able to draw the human figure tolerably correct , with as ...
... suppose your attendance to be constant ) , you would endeavour to draw the figure by memory . I will even venture to add , that by perse- verance in this custom , you will become able to draw the human figure tolerably correct , with as ...
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... the absolute nature of species was not questioned . God had created all species definitely , and it was , therefore , not impossible to suppose pout . that there existed for each species a kind of divine 43 The Third Discourse.
... the absolute nature of species was not questioned . God had created all species definitely , and it was , therefore , not impossible to suppose pout . that there existed for each species a kind of divine 43 The Third Discourse.
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Seite 437 - Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.
Seite 53 - All the objects which are exhibited to our view by nature, upon close examination will be found to have their blemishes and defects. The most beautiful forms have something about them like weakness, minuteness, or imperfection.
Seite 55 - There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell, whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions, the other by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one Excellent.
Seite 54 - ... deficiencies, excrescences, and deformities of things, from their general figures, he makes out an abstract idea of their forms, more perfect than any one original : and, what may seem a paradox, he learns to design naturally, by drawing his figures unlike to any one object. This idea of the perfect state of nature, which the artist calls the ideal beauty, is the great leading principle by which works of genius are conducted.
Seite 148 - Invention," says Sir Joshua Reynolds, " is one of the great marks of genius ; but, if we consult experience, we shall find that it is by being conversant with the inventions of others that we learn to invent, as by reading the thoughts of others we learn to think.
Seite 52 - He examines his own mind, and perceives there nothing of that divine inspiration with which he is told so many others have been favoured. He never travelled to heaven to gather new ideas ; and he finds himself possessed of no other qualifications than what mere common observation and a plain understanding can confer.
Seite 59 - Nature ; he must divest himself of all prejudices in favour of his age or country; he must disregard all local and temporary ornaments, and look only on those general habits which are every where and always the same...
Seite 185 - ... and legitimate offspring is a power of distinguishing right from wrong ; which power applied to works of art, is denominated TASTE. Let me then, without further introduction, enter upon an examination, whether taste be so far beyond our reach, as to be unattainable by care; or be so very vague and capricious, that no care ought to be employed about it. It has been the fate of arts to be enveloped in mysterious and incomprehensible language...
Seite 112 - ... order. If, when you have got thus far, you can add any, or all, of the subordinate qualifications, it is my wish and advice that you should not neglect them. But this is as much a matter of circumspection and caution at least as of eagerness and pursuit.
Seite 221 - Whoever would reform a nation, supposing a bad taste to prevail in it, will not accomplish his purpose by going directly against the stream of their prejudices. Men's minds must be prepared to receive what is new to them. Reformation is a work of time. A national taste, however wrong it may be, cannot be totally changed at once ; we must yield a little to the prepossession which has taken hold on the mind, and we may then bring people to adopt what would offend them, if endeavoured to be introduced...