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She may, like most artists, have a specialty, but a walk through her studio and a critical examination of her work ranging all along the line of oil paintings, water-colors of the most exquisite type, wash drawings, crayons, and pastels would scarcely result in discovering her specialty.... As a colorist she has few rivals, and her acute knowledge of drawing and genius for composition are apparent in everything she does."
And, finally, I shall go to Venice." "You will do well. Venice suggests the peace of the Sabbath-day in the grand week of creative and divine Italy." "Your friend Dechartre talked very prettily to me of Venice, of the atmosphere of Venice, which sows pearls." "Yes, at Venice the sky is a colorist. Florence inspires the mind.
He was himself a colorist in language, and called up the image of a great personage or a splendid pageant of the past with the same affluence, the same rich vitality, that floods and warms the vast areas of canvas over which the full-fed genius of Rubens disported itself in the luxury of imaginative creation. AEt. 42-43. The labor of ten years was at last finished.
Here is sore temptation for the colorist; more, perhaps, than by the wealth and combination of tints, he is affected by their celestial quality. All is prismatic, or like those hues produced by the interference of rays of light as seen in the colors of stars.
Everywhere the aerial gradations and sky-effects inimitable; nowhere else such perspectives, such transparent lilacs and grays. I can conceive of some superior landscape painter, some fine colorist, after sketching awhile out here, discarding all his previous work, delightful to stock exhibition amateurs, as muddy, raw and artificial.
The fiftieth might have observed what all painters know, that Raphael was not a great painter, either as colorist or technician.
"It proves," replied an illustrious painter of the romantic school, disguised like a Roman out of one of David's pictures, "it proves that the Cholera is a wretched colorist, for he has nothing but a dirty green on his pallet. Evidently he is a pupil of Jacobus, that king of classical painters, who are another species of plagues."
In this book the excellence of his drawing is seen; but so few of his works remain that we cannot judge of him as a colorist. It is certain that he laid the foundation of the excellence of the Venetian school, which his son Giovanni and the great Titian carried to perfection.
And, finally, I shall go to Venice." "You will do well. Venice suggests the peace of the Sabbath-day in the grand week of creative and divine Italy." "Your friend Dechartre talked very prettily to me of Venice, of the atmosphere of Venice, which sows pearls." "Yes, at Venice the sky is a colorist. Florence inspires the mind.
What with his haste and a certain dash, which, according to our mood, we may call florid or splendid, he seems to stand among poets where Rubens does among painters, greater, perhaps, as a colorist than an artist, yet great here also, if we compare him with any but the first.
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