How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods . ceived an almost instantaneous im-pression of his subject, vivid and distinct, to the settingdown of which are directed all his subsequent efforts;and they are often long and patiently repeated. It isnot a deep impression; as a rule, takes little accountof the inward man or woman, but represents with amaz-ing reality the visible exterior, illumined by such hintsof character as a keen observ
How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods . ceived an almost instantaneous im-pression of his subject, vivid and distinct, to the settingdown of which are directed all his subsequent efforts;and they are often long and patiently repeated. It isnot a deep impression; as a rule, takes little accountof the inward man or woman, but represents with amaz-ing reality the visible exterior, illumined by such hintsof character as a keen observer may discover in man-ner or speech and general appearance. Sometimes,however, it would appear that he had been unable to es-tablish a sympathetic accord with his subject; and theseare the few occasions when he seems mainly preoccupiedwith the teehnic, or the still fewer ones in which thereare evidences of tiredness or fumbling in the brush-work. In the acquirement of the latter a strong influence was [444] , 5 ii. ;&. WSM M ^ ? v ^^1 -^^ { 4 •< ft ^^J^^K^^/L A ^ ff •. ^^4 •f ^ 31. J iMC . •?-^a^^* PORTRAIT OF THE ARTISTS MOTHER JAMES A. McNEILL WHISTLER LUXEMBOURG GALLERY, PARIS. PORTRAIT OV THE MISSES HUNTER JOHN S. SARGENT BY PERMISSION OF MR. CHARLES E. HUNTER WHISTLER-SARGENT . Franz Hals. From him Sargent caught the skill ofmodeling the faces in quiet, even light, of building themup by placing side by side firm, strong patches of color,each of which contains the exact amount of light thepart of the face reflected, and of giving to flat massesof color the suggestion of roundness and French esprit is noticeable in his portraits ofladies, his male ones recall rather the manly gusto ofthe old Dutch painter. Moreover, in his placing of thefigures in the composition, and in the pure, luminoustones of his flesh-tints, he often reminds one of theScotch artist, Raeburn. In addition to portraits, he has executed some muraldecorations for the Boston Public
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