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Updated: June 14, 2025
I don't know that it is of any importance. But I thought it a really admirable illustration of the true value of ordinary art-criticism. It seems that a lady once gravely asked the remorseful Academician, as you call him, if his celebrated picture of 'A Spring-Day at Whiteley's, or, 'Waiting for the Last Omnibus, or some subject of that kind, was all painted by hand? GILBERT. And was it?
From psychology springs the modern interest in æsthetics; those who care for art and the processes of their own minds finding themselves æstheticians willy-nilly. Now, art-criticism and æsthetics are two things, though at the present moment the former is profoundly influenced by the latter.
I use the word literary as it has often been used by others in characterizing the popular art-criticism of the time and in England much of the professional criticism also to denote a prominence given to the subject, the idea, the story l'anecdote, as a French critic calls it over the purely painter's work of a picture.
Poems were sent to them, cut out of one or the other of the leading periodicals, with their son's initials appended, and articles of philosophical art-criticism, published while the boy was still an undergraduate which seemed to the stern father everything that was sophistical and subversive.
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