. What pictures to see in America. st think it a portrait of the masterpainter himself in the guise of a master violin-ist. Sarasate and Joachim were dividing hon-ors when the twentieth century opened—Sara-sate died in 1908—and musical critics agreethat they will hold their places in the annalsof violin playing as the representatives of cer-tain elemental excellences in art. Edwin Austin Abbey (1852-1911) certainlyrefuted over and over again the ridiculous as-sertion that story-telling pictures could not betrue art. His pictorial interpretations of theHoly Grail in the Boston Library, SheStoop
. What pictures to see in America. st think it a portrait of the masterpainter himself in the guise of a master violin-ist. Sarasate and Joachim were dividing hon-ors when the twentieth century opened—Sara-sate died in 1908—and musical critics agreethat they will hold their places in the annalsof violin playing as the representatives of cer-tain elemental excellences in art. Edwin Austin Abbey (1852-1911) certainlyrefuted over and over again the ridiculous as-sertion that story-telling pictures could not betrue art. His pictorial interpretations of theHoly Grail in the Boston Library, SheStoops to Conquer and Shakespearian sceneshave given those masterpieces in ancient leg-end and literature a significance undreamedof before. He not only entered into the spiritof the stories as their authors representedthem but, adding his own personal character-istics, he has given to them an originality thatstamps them as masterpieces in art. Of course we are interested in the story un-derlying Abbeys portrayal of special scenes,. Ciypyrighfy Carnegie Tyi^titute. Fig. 115—Sarasate. AVhistler. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh.
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