International studio . n thisdomain. - - MUNTCH.—It is a very fortunate thingthat certain artists, specialising in someparticular subject of their graphic orplastic art, write for us as it were ahistory of mankind in its many different occupa-tions and in its daily life. Thus we find the hfeof the Middle Ages naively presented to us m thebackgrounds of those religious pictures with which,of old, their churches were decorated; so too wefind their life in all its outward semblance mirroredin the paintings of the V>yy1z\^ petit-maitres, or of theirown times in the exquisite productions of Watt
International studio . n thisdomain. - - MUNTCH.—It is a very fortunate thingthat certain artists, specialising in someparticular subject of their graphic orplastic art, write for us as it were ahistory of mankind in its many different occupa-tions and in its daily life. Thus we find the hfeof the Middle Ages naively presented to us m thebackgrounds of those religious pictures with which,of old, their churches were decorated; so too wefind their life in all its outward semblance mirroredin the paintings of the V>yy1z\^ petit-maitres, or of theirown times in the exquisite productions of Watteauor Lancret. The artist always becomes moreoriginal in leaving the trodden paths anddescribing what he sees and feels around himand what he loves. If a Jean Franc^ois Milletpainted the peasants of the fields, Segantini hasrevealed the life of the mountaineers, and H. , though in a very different manner, carrieson and amplifies this theme, but in pictures moreconcrete, and—may one say ?—perhaps more de-. YOUTHS ON THE SEASHORE60 (Berlin Secession) FROM A PASTEL BY LUDWIG VON HOFMANN Studio- Talk
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