American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . tly seems naturalized among the artists of the French capital. The Munich school, at the present time, has a numerous class of devoted adherents andpartisans, who advance its interests, and express their satisfaction whenever the French, as theyperiodically do, indulge themselves in pronounced opinions as to the decadence of French art of Munich, however, is not the art of the sunlight, but of the shadow. The pigmentsthat darken on the canvas as it comes from the studios of its painters are the evidence of itsdesi
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . tly seems naturalized among the artists of the French capital. The Munich school, at the present time, has a numerous class of devoted adherents andpartisans, who advance its interests, and express their satisfaction whenever the French, as theyperiodically do, indulge themselves in pronounced opinions as to the decadence of French art of Munich, however, is not the art of the sunlight, but of the shadow. The pigmentsthat darken on the canvas as it comes from the studios of its painters are the evidence of itsdesire to be strong. It says to its students: Avoid lightness of purpose and affectation, drawlearnedly what is before you ; — but, unfortunately, in effect it adds: When you come to color,aim to reproduce to-day those qualities which time has brought about in the works of the greatmasters of the past. In other words, the close of the work becomes a hastening process, and,like everything else of its kind, at the expense of a future interest. Its cost will be paid for in. :?-,.??.., jjjlgjj i6o AMERICAN ART still darkening effects hereafter, possibly beyond all chance of recognition of the merits of theseworks by our successors. This is something that can be said independently of all judgment asto the present, of all comparison with French or the best of any other art, in which breadth, asin the art of Munich, goes hand in hand with attention to details, and the adjustment of valuesappears as a potential fact. There are already evidences in German landscape art, which havebecome manifest in the years that have passed since 1870, showing that the art of the conqueredhas made inroads upon the art of the victors. If the same influences will effect some modifica-tions in other departments of German art, it will be a consummation sincerely to be wished for. The illustration on the preceding page is from a water-color sketch by Mr. E. K. Foote,a pupil lately under the instruction of Mr.
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