Scribner's magazine . Miss Agathonik^ H^lfene lonides (1893)—in the possession of Mr. Alexander lonides.(Photographed by F. Hollyer.) creation of ideal images. It is not thesubject l)ut the artist which divides artinto what is usually the real and theideal. A portrait by a Denner is,indeed, mundane enoui^h, but so is anallegory by a Bronziuo, and when aman like Rembrandt or Watts i^aintseither a portrait or a vision, he removesit to a sphere beyond the reach of merephysical From the Half-length Portrait of Mary, Wife of Constaritine lonides (1842)—in the possession of Constantine l
Scribner's magazine . Miss Agathonik^ H^lfene lonides (1893)—in the possession of Mr. Alexander lonides.(Photographed by F. Hollyer.) creation of ideal images. It is not thesubject l)ut the artist which divides artinto what is usually the real and theideal. A portrait by a Denner is,indeed, mundane enoui^h, but so is anallegory by a Bronziuo, and when aman like Rembrandt or Watts i^aintseither a portrait or a vision, he removesit to a sphere beyond the reach of merephysical From the Half-length Portrait of Mary, Wife of Constaritine lonides (1842)—in the possession of Constantine lonides, her grandson. (Photographed by F. Hollyer.) Whether he pamts portrait or his-tory, takes his theme from a book orhis own invention, Wattss aiai is alwaysideal. When a man embodies an ideaw^e call it imagination, when he paintsa material object in such a way as toexpress its essential beauty we call itinsight, but the faculties are closely akinthough employed, one in creation andthe other in revelation. But thoughakin they are distinct, like two hands,and some artists seem to be able touse one and not the other. Mr. Watts,however, is, so to speak, ambidextrous,and can make us feel either the j^res-ence of Death or the genius of Ten-nyson. In both cases he impresses ourminds with a new image of the imma-terial. The secret of Mr. Wattss strangepower of drawing into the faces of hissitters suggestions of their inner being lies, no doubt, essentially in his wddeand sensiti
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