Thoughts About Art
Thoughts About Art
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French artists are, as a body, clear-sighted as to constructive truth in figures and animals, but blind to the truths of colour and to con- * Some critics have spoken of my own work as topographic. I have tried to do pure topography, but soon abandoned it for two reasons — first, the drawing, though demonatrably accurate, never satisfied any unprepared spectator ; second, it never satisfied myself. After that I determined to draw landscape as it appeared to me, in a simple unreasoning frame of ...mind. To produce pure topography one must be in a highly artificial and «elf.conscious sUte of the coldest scientific tranquillity.
H s 258 THOUGHTS ABOUT AR T, structive truths in landscape. In Art we easily perceive the blindness of others, but do not so easily detect our own ; if we began to be aware of it, that dawning consciousness would be a proof that our darkness was passing away, and the light of fresh truth breaking in upon us.
7. Difficulty of finding out when we are ourselves artistically blind, — ^There is a pretty theory that the spirits of the dead may often be with us in our daily life, but ^at the dulness of our grosser sense hinders us from beholding our ethereal visitants.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
French artists are, as a body, clear-sighted as to constructive truth in figures and animals, but blind to the truths of colour and to con- * Some critics have spoken of my own work as topographic. I have tried to do pure topography, but soon abandoned it for two reasons — first, the drawing, though demonatrably accurate, never satisfied any unprepared spectator ; second, it never satisfied myself. After that I determined to draw landscape as it appeared to me, in a simple unreasoning frame of ...mind. To produce pure topography one must be in a highly artificial and «elf.conscious sUte of the coldest scientific tranquillity.
H s 258 THOUGHTS ABOUT AR T, structive truths in landscape. In Art we easily perceive the blindness of others, but do not so easily detect our own ; if we began to be aware of it, that dawning consciousness would be a proof that our darkness was passing away, and the light of fresh truth breaking in upon us.
7. Difficulty of finding out when we are ourselves artistically blind, — ^There is a pretty theory that the spirits of the dead may often be with us in our daily life, but ^at the dulness of our grosser sense hinders us from beholding our ethereal visitants.
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