International studio . ARARRLLA STUART (1575-1C15)BY ISAAC OLIVER of modelling, from sympathetic knowledge thatis going on, and it is in the heart of this processthat that inter-action between the consciousness ofartist and sitter takes place which produces whata |)hotograph cannot give. The photograph can. HOWARD, VI-ATTRIBI TEH roi sr HINDKN (./. lOlo/l I)TO lETKR mind of the man who sits before him, as heportrays him. It is because the fashionablemodern exponents of Miniature assume such anegative attitude towards their sitters that theirminiatures are so dull. They are reflec
International studio . ARARRLLA STUART (1575-1C15)BY ISAAC OLIVER of modelling, from sympathetic knowledge thatis going on, and it is in the heart of this processthat that inter-action between the consciousness ofartist and sitter takes place which produces whata |)hotograph cannot give. The photograph can. HOWARD, VI-ATTRIBI TEH roi sr HINDKN (./. lOlo/l I)TO lETKR mind of the man who sits before him, as heportrays him. It is because the fashionablemodern exponents of Miniature assume such anegative attitude towards their sitters that theirminiatures are so dull. They are reflectionswhich nine times out of ten are poorer than thereflection in a lens. To feel one man summing up another, that isthe soul of the enjoyment of portraiture. It isthe impressiveness of the judgments passed, asexpressed in one small drawing after another, thatgives to the art of Samuel Cooper an importancethat makes the scale on which he works anirrelevant t|uestion altogether. only rellect, it can make no advances. The wordnegative gives us its soul, but the attitude of theartist—the great one—is positive towards his sitter,advancing, so to spwik, into the lust recess of the
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