A history of painting . LONDON: T. C. AND E. C. JACK 16 HENRIETTA STREET, AND EDINBURGH 1911 ArtLibrary *VD soPREFACE Although I have little practice with the pen, I feelimpelled to say a few words upon this History ofPainting, and upon the man who has written it. Hereis a book on painting in which the writer comes intothe art and tries to appreciate it, instead of dishing uphackneyed laws and recipes for the making of it. All arts are akin ; and Haldane Macfall realises thisvital fact. If the writers upon art would only hesitate attimes, and remember that those who practise it have beent
A history of painting . LONDON: T. C. AND E. C. JACK 16 HENRIETTA STREET, AND EDINBURGH 1911 ArtLibrary *VD soPREFACE Although I have little practice with the pen, I feelimpelled to say a few words upon this History ofPainting, and upon the man who has written it. Hereis a book on painting in which the writer comes intothe art and tries to appreciate it, instead of dishing uphackneyed laws and recipes for the making of it. All arts are akin ; and Haldane Macfall realises thisvital fact. If the writers upon art would only hesitate attimes, and remember that those who practise it have beenthrough the difficulties of the perplexing business in theirapprenticeship to their craft, and have accepted or rejectedmost of the theories that they pour forth as discoveries,there would be less hidebound talk about painting. I take it that Haldane Macfall has done what we do :he has been through the toil of apprenticeship to his craft ;he has found all the bookish theories to be dead stuff;and then he has gone straighhistoryofpaintin01macf
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