The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, RA. . art. Not less remarkable is the refinement inselecting and combining, that manifestation of the im-aginative faculty which converts the scene into an idealvision of beauty. It is ideal art in its truest sense : Nature, not altered, but to advantage dressed. The contrast between the silvery light of early mornin this picture, and the deep hues of sunset in Pang-bourne, is very striking. It is his complete commandover atmospheric effects which renders the artistspaintings of similar scenery so utterly free from same-ness. Placed side by side, these two
The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, RA. . art. Not less remarkable is the refinement inselecting and combining, that manifestation of the im-aginative faculty which converts the scene into an idealvision of beauty. It is ideal art in its truest sense : Nature, not altered, but to advantage dressed. The contrast between the silvery light of early mornin this picture, and the deep hues of sunset in Pang-bourne, is very striking. It is his complete commandover atmospheric effects which renders the artistspaintings of similar scenery so utterly free from same-ness. Placed side by side, these two pictures are seento differ as widely in their impression as the actualdawn and sunset of Nature. With the same grace oftreatment, the same power in foliage, the same vigourin light and shade, the same delicate tenderness inreflections, they are totally diverse in sentiment as incolour. The freshness of morning is opposed to therest of evening. Tranquillity is the prevailing feeling-inspired by both ; but in the one it is the tranquillity. 77//; MIST F THE MOEXLXG SOXXIXG. 7-\ of wakening life, in the other of the pause at the closeof the days labours. In The Mist of the Morning anew day is beginning; the smoke from the chimneystells of the wakening of the hamlet; the boy is w ateringhis horse before starting with the barge on its voyagefor the day through the silent reaches; the sound ofhis voice, as he shouts to the man in the distant punt,is carried over the smooth water. But, as the artist shows by the title he gives to thepicture, what he intends the eye to dwell on is theeffect of the mist of the morning on the scene. Thisis the main thought in his mind, and he has succeededin impressing it on the canvas with such vividnessthat the idea is for ever linked with this particularpicture. No one, who has once seen it, will ever lookon such a morning without recalling it to mind, orwithout feeling the beauty of the effect more deeplybecause the artist has taught him to see it.
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