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"Yes, it's incredible that anyone, even an oldvillage granny, should be able to look at that canvas and not be struckspeechless by its quality. " The critic was in Middletown to report on the portrait and he now beganmarshaling his adjectives for that purpose. "I never saw such use ofpigment in my life . . . It makes the Whistler 'Carlyle' look like burnt-outashes . . . The luminous richness of the blacks in the academic gown, themasterly generalization in the treatment of the hair, the placing... of thosegreat talons of hands on the canvas carrying out the vigorous lines of thecomposition, and the unforgettable felicity of those brutally red lips asthe one ringing note of color. As for life-likeness, what's the old dametalking about! I never saw such eyes! Not a hint of meretricious emphasison their luster and yet they fairly flame. " The conversation spread to a less technical discussion as the group wasjoined by the professor of rhetoric, an ambitious young man with aninsatiable craving for sophistication, who felt himself for once entirelyin his element in the crowd of celebrities.
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