Essays in Biography And Criticism Electronic Resource volume 01
Essays in Biography And Criticism Electronic Resource volume 01
Peter Bayne
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The imaginative power, which summons before the eye of its possessor, as if in vision or dream, forms and colors having no actual existence, but combining in a beauty higher than that of external nature, is there dis tinctly contemplated ; an attempt even is made, no one but Ruskin could have dared it, to enter, if we may so speak, the chambers of Turner s mind, and to watch his conceptions coming together. Explicit acknowledgment is thus made, of the reality of the highest imaginative exertion..., and it is set in the seat of supreme artistic honor. You must state facts very minutely in order to meet such critics as Ruskin s ; else why should we make these refer ences at all ? Is not Ruskin most of all distinguished as the expositor and eulogist of Turner, and is not Turner the greatest landscape poet that ever used a brush ? No painter ever so daringly magnified nature s forms, none ever arranged them anew so superbly in novel combina tions, as Turner. It is evident, therefore, that Ruskin acknowledges, and with emphasis, that highest excellence in Art, which we may variously designate as the poetic, the ideal, the creative.
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