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"'Tis thus over at the loom of Time I ply, And weave for God the garment thou seest him by" Such is the aesthetic theory of Richard Wagner's art-work. It is suggestive to note that the earliest recognized function of music, before it had learned to enslave itself to mere sensuous enjoyment, was similar in spirit to that which its latest reformer demands for it in the art of the future.
Then came Novel number two, "The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle," three years after the first: an unequal book, best at its beginning and end, full of violence, not on the whole such good art-work as the earlier fiction, yet very fine in spots and containing such additional sea-dogs as Commodore Trunnion and Lieutenant Hatchway, whose presence makes one forgive much.
This is what I long to do; to take the agony of that struggle and live it and forge it into an art-work; to put upon a canvas the soul of it; to put it there, living and terrible, that the men of this land might know the heritage that is come down to them. It would take years of toil, it would take money, too I should have to go down there. But some day I shall do it!
I do not mention this picture as a complete pendant to Botticelli's famous tondo. The faces of S. Catherine and Madonna, however, have something of the rarity that is so striking in that work. I hope to make use of this passage in a future section of my work on the Italian Poetry of the Renaissance. Therefore I pass by this portion of Piero's art-work now. Uffizzi Gallery.
The Inness family had just moved from Newburg, probably the elder Innes seeking in Newark a good location for his son's beginning. The first art-work Inness did was engraving; as he had been apprenticed to that business, but afterward he studied with Gignoux, a pupil of Delaroche. At that time there was what is known as the Hudson River School.
Well may such a grand conception be called the "Art-work of the Future." Wagner for a long time despaired of the visible execution of his ideas.
The publicity for which alone I can work is a small nucleus of individuals who constitute my whole publicity at present. To these individuals, therefore, I must turn, and put the question to them whether they love me and my art-work sufficiently to make it possible for me, as far as in them lies, to be myself, and to develop my activity without disturbance.
Weber's motives are generally caught from the immemorial airs which resound in every village and hamlet, and the fresh beat of the German heart sends its thrill through almost every bar of his music. Here is found the ultimate significance of his art-work, apart from the mere musical beauty of his compositions.
You're not on the Whitehall now. 'Oh, all right, chief all right! Mr. Heeley concurred. Five minutes later Mr. Heeley entered what he called his private boudoir, bearing a satinesque volume. 'Here, boys, he cried to two other young men who were already there, smoking clay pipes 'here's a lark! The chief wants fifteen inches on this charming and pathetic art-work as quick as you can.
'Pro salute animae meae' was, I am reminded, the consideration usually expressed in the old charters of manumission. One of the unfortunate effects of this passion for building costly churches is the importation of quantities of foreign art-work in the shape of woodcarvings, stained glass, mosaics, and metal work. To good foreign art, indeed, one could not, within certain limits, object.
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