. What pictures to see in America. PITTSBURGH 199 the medium of light and air, is in a measurethe underlying principle, but that light and airare playing strange pranks with some of thedevotees of the independent movement is self-evident. Certainly liberty has become licensewhen a picture gives no impression at all un-less a volume of light and air ten feet andmore in thickness is between the beholder andthe picture. But not so with Pissarros pic-tures. Keyed in high color, he preserves thepicturesque and emphasizes just enough ofparticular objects to give unity and hold theinterest. The longe
. What pictures to see in America. PITTSBURGH 199 the medium of light and air, is in a measurethe underlying principle, but that light and airare playing strange pranks with some of thedevotees of the independent movement is self-evident. Certainly liberty has become licensewhen a picture gives no impression at all un-less a volume of light and air ten feet andmore in thickness is between the beholder andthe picture. But not so with Pissarros pic-tures. Keyed in high color, he preserves thepicturesque and emphasizes just enough ofparticular objects to give unity and hold theinterest. The longer we look at the greatbridge the more we are impressed wdth theartists clever understanding of the effect ofair and light and his restraint in using Childe Hassam an entirely differentmodus operandi is apparent, for a remarkablepersonality is behind it. Spring Morning(Fig. 123) is tantalizing in its hints of the re-birth of animate things. The thoughts thatare stirring in the young woman—or is it in ourown mind—are f
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