The works of sir Joshua Reynolds. To which is prefixed an account of the life and writings of the author, by E. Malone, Band 2 |
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... minute parts , the grandeur of its general effect is inevitably destroyed . Perhaps the only circumstance in which the Modern have excelled the Ancient Sculp- tors , is the management of a single group in basso - relievo ; the art of ...
... minute parts , the grandeur of its general effect is inevitably destroyed . Perhaps the only circumstance in which the Modern have excelled the Ancient Sculp- tors , is the management of a single group in basso - relievo ; the art of ...
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... of contracting as well as dilating his sight ; because , he that does not at all express particulars , expresses nothing ; yet it is cer- 40 tain , that a nice discrimination of minute circumstances 4 THE ELEVENTH DISCOURSE . 43 .
... of contracting as well as dilating his sight ; because , he that does not at all express particulars , expresses nothing ; yet it is cer- 40 tain , that a nice discrimination of minute circumstances 4 THE ELEVENTH DISCOURSE . 43 .
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... minute differences in things which are frequently not observed at all , and when they are , make little impression , there are in all considerable objects great charac- teristick distinctions , which press strongly on the senses , and ...
... minute differences in things which are frequently not observed at all , and when they are , make little impression , there are in all considerable objects great charac- teristick distinctions , which press strongly on the senses , and ...
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... minute parts ; this it is hard to settle . We are sure that it is expressing the general effect of the whole , which alone can give to objects their true and touching character ; and wherever this is observed , whatever else may be ...
... minute parts ; this it is hard to settle . We are sure that it is expressing the general effect of the whole , which alone can give to objects their true and touching character ; and wherever this is observed , whatever else may be ...
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... minute and detailed reality ; we are pleased , on the con- trary , by seeing ends accomplished by seem- ingly inadequate means . To express protuberance by actual relief , to express the softness of flesh by the soft- ness of wax ...
... minute and detailed reality ; we are pleased , on the con- trary , by seeing ends accomplished by seem- ingly inadequate means . To express protuberance by actual relief , to express the softness of flesh by the soft- ness of wax ...
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Seite 235 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
Seite 230 - I was led into the subject of this letter by endeavouring to fix the original cause of this conduct of the Italian masters. If it can be proved that by this choice they selected the most beautiful part of the creation, it will...
Seite 115 - This impression is the result of the accumulated experience of our whole life, and has been collected, we do not always know how, or when. But this mass of collective observation, however acquired, ought to prevail over that reason, which however powerfully exerted on any particular occasion, will probably comprehend but a partial view of the subject; and our conduct in life as well as in the Arts, is, or ought to be, generally governed by this habitual reason : it is our happiness that we are enabled...
Seite 221 - I was much pleased with your ridicule of those shallow criticks, whose judgment, though often right as far as it goes, yet reaches only to inferior beauties, and who, unable to comprehend the whole, judge only by parts, and from thence determine the merit of extensive works.
Seite 138 - Gothic architecture; which, though not so ancient as the Grecian, is more so to our imagination, with which the artist is more concerned than with absolute truth.
Seite 114 - ... not always in his power, perhaps, to give a reason for it; because he cannot recollect and bring before him all the materials that gave birth to his opinion; for very many and very intricate considerations may unite to form the principle, even of small and minute parts, involved in, or dependent on, a great system of things: though these in process of time are forgotten, the right impression still remains fixed in his mind. This impression is the result of the accumulated experience of our whole...
Seite 163 - ... after he had invented a new species of dramatic painting, in which probably he will never be equalled, and had stored his mind with infinite materials to explain and illustrate the domestic and familiar scenes of common life, which were generally, and ought to have been always, the subject of his pencil; he very imprudently, or rather presumptuously, attempted the great historical style, for which his previous habits had by no means prepared him : he was indeed so entirely unacquainted with the...
Seite 119 - It is the lowest style only, of arts, whether of Painting, Poetry, or Musick, that may be said, in the vulgar sense, to be naturally pleasing. The higher efforts of those arts, we know by experience, do not affect minds wholly uncultivated. This refined taste is the consequence of education and habit...
Seite 107 - On the contrary, he who recurs to nature, at every recurrence renews his strength. The rules of art he is never likely to forget ; they are few and simple ; but nature is refined, subtle, and infinitely various, beyond the power and retention of memory ; it is necessary, therefore, to have continual recourse to her. In this intercourse, there is no end of his improvement ; the longer he lives, the nearer he approaches to the true and perfect idea of art.
Seite 239 - ... annexes to the dove ; but, if he pretends to defend the preference he gives to one or the other by endeavouring to prove that this more beautiful form proceeds from a particular gradation of magnitude, undulation of a curve, or direction of a line, or whatever other conceit of his imagination he shall fix on as a criterion of form, he will be continually contradicting himself, and find at last that the great Mother of Nature will not be subjected to such narrow rules.