. Frank Brangwyn and his work. 1911 . e? To forgetPiranesi and Legros was not difficult, since a theoryhad to be bolstered up by arguments, and Whistlerdelighted to be subtle in effervescent reasonings. Withgreat care he wrote to the Hoboken Etching Club,copied his letter, and kept the copy for future reference;nor did he forget to show method and pride in thetabulation of his dicta:— I. That in art it is criminal to go beyond the meansused in its exercise. 2. That the space to be covered should always be inproper relation to the means used for covering it. 3. That in etching the means used, o
. Frank Brangwyn and his work. 1911 . e? To forgetPiranesi and Legros was not difficult, since a theoryhad to be bolstered up by arguments, and Whistlerdelighted to be subtle in effervescent reasonings. Withgreat care he wrote to the Hoboken Etching Club,copied his letter, and kept the copy for future reference;nor did he forget to show method and pride in thetabulation of his dicta:— I. That in art it is criminal to go beyond the meansused in its exercise. 2. That the space to be covered should always be inproper relation to the means used for covering it. 3. That in etching the means used, or instrumentemployed, being the finest possible point, the space tobe covered should be small in proportion. 4. That all attempts to overstep the limits, insistedupon by such proportion, are inartistic thoroughly, andtend to reveal the paucity of the means used, instead ofconcealing the same, as required by Art in its refine-ment. 5. That the huge plate, therefore, is an < w CO < J 1 W S I u w z a: t-H h ^ ^ •5?. Etchings : and Summary of Characteristics To all this we must add two dicta omitted by first is that a complete success in any art is in its ownjustification. At a time when metal plates for etching werebeaten out by hand, a small expanse of copper may haveseemed, perhaps, to be an essential limitation to a difficultart; but as soon as metal could be rolled out with a perfectflatness by machine-power, a big sheet of copper was notmore difficult to get than a small one, so that experimentscould be made on an ampler scale. Then success wouldbe determined, not by dicta as to size, but by the geniusof a man who worked more freely in large than in , his instrument was the finest possible point, thatmade the finest possible line, but this was not the wholeof his handicraft, since his metal plate had yet to be bittenby acid. The acid could be either weak or strong, and thefinest lines, bitten deeply, would grow into scale with the
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