. The Whistler book; a monograph of the life and positin in art of James McNeill Whistler, together with a careful study of his more important works . S. THE SILENT CANAL (eTCHING). In Quest of Line Expression 165 rapher can, at will, fix either the house, thetree or the pool of water, but whatever one ofthese three objects it will be, the other twoobjects will appear less distinct. The human eye could have told the painterthe same story, as the eye naturally and in-stinctively rests on the most pleasing part ofthe scene, and in so doing, puts out of focusmore or less all the other parts. It i
. The Whistler book; a monograph of the life and positin in art of James McNeill Whistler, together with a careful study of his more important works . S. THE SILENT CANAL (eTCHING). In Quest of Line Expression 165 rapher can, at will, fix either the house, thetree or the pool of water, but whatever one ofthese three objects it will be, the other twoobjects will appear less distinct. The human eye could have told the painterthe same story, as the eye naturally and in-stinctively rests on the most pleasing part ofthe scene, and in so doing, puts out of focusmore or less all the other parts. It is a curiousfact that all the compositions of the Old ]\Ias-ters were out of focus. True enough the}-swept minor light and colour notations intolarger ones, but there seldom was any definiteindication in their work whether an object wasin the foreground or middle distance. Thisway of seeing things was, no doubt, a volun-tary one — they had a different idea of pic-torial interpretation. In their pictures, as innature, we continually allow our attention toflit from one point to the other in the endeav-our to grasp the whole, and the result is a ser
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