Six Lectures On Painting Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, January, 1904
Six Lectures On Painting Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, January, 1904
George Clausen
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The vulgar and prosaic aspects of a subject were the only ones he was capable of noting, and his colours Ue like liquid mud on the canvas," etc. He goes on to say that in early life he was much I ^^s*^i$^i*-^ :l: Titian, Velasquez, and Rembrandt 87 attracted by Rembrandt's manner, and thought of following it, but better counsels prevailed! Gerard was an artist of some standing,, and a follower of the Classic tradition, as the Dutch- men understood it ; but the world has very willingly let his w...ork die, while Rembrandt has come to his own. The history of art shows that an artist's work lives by its own vitality rather than by following blindly a tradition, however noble. And the innovator is usually, in his lifetime, decried ; it must be so. But sometimes it is recognised afterwards that the innovator was the loyal follower of good tradition, and that his opponents merely imagined they were. The work of the great minds, the great masters, remains unap- proachable, and is, if possible, more highly esteemed now than ever ; but where are the Caracci, Carlo, Maratta, Pompeo Battoni, and the rest who were so highly esteemed in their day ?
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