tonists

Updated: June 17, 2025

Guided by this fact the modern school of tonists seeks to shorten the period between the date of production and this final desirable quality, by setting in motion these factors at once.

Henry Rankin Poore - Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures

Upon the pivot of Reserve the opposing creeds of the Impressionists and Tonists bear with most contention. The former would lash their coursers of Phoebus with unsparing hand from start to finish; the latter prefer the “Waiting Race,” every atom of force governed and in control, held for the opportunity, when increasing strength is necessary.

Henry Rankin Poore - Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures

Impressionism expresses frankly by the use of smaller methods what the tonists attain by larger and freer ones. The individual must decide whether he prefers to tell the time as he watches the movement of the works or will take this for granted if he gets the result.

Henry Rankin Poore - Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures