painter-critic

Updated: May 21, 2025

Consider the criticism of poetry by the poets themselves, for example, how narrowly it is limited to questions of vocabulary or of versification, whether the poet-critic is Dryden or Wordsworth or Poe. Consider the criticism of painting by the painters themselves, how frankly it is concerned with the processes of the art, whether the painter-critic is Fromentin or La Farge.

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