. Art in France. FIG. 901.—CLAUDE MONET. LA GARE SAINT-LAZARE. (The Luxembourg, Paris.) 432 NATURALISM. cIG. g02.—SISLEV. SNOW EFFECT. (Durand-Ruci Collection.) ised truths. The spirit ofsystem dwells in art andscience. Searching fortruth and beauty it onlysubmits to facts in orderto dominate them. Of the pictorial man-ners we have nowpassed in review, nonecan be said to have be-come absolutely out-of-date ; the representativesof these various stylesappear side by side inthe annual the difficulty of defining the contemporary school is not onlvdue to the fact that we, who are living


. Art in France. FIG. 901.—CLAUDE MONET. LA GARE SAINT-LAZARE. (The Luxembourg, Paris.) 432 NATURALISM. cIG. g02.—SISLEV. SNOW EFFECT. (Durand-Ruci Collection.) ised truths. The spirit ofsystem dwells in art andscience. Searching fortruth and beauty it onlysubmits to facts in orderto dominate them. Of the pictorial man-ners we have nowpassed in review, nonecan be said to have be-come absolutely out-of-date ; the representativesof these various stylesappear side by side inthe annual the difficulty of defining the contemporary school is not onlvdue to the fact that we, who are living among the individuals, can-not readily discern groups. The word School has no longer itsold significance. It meant formerly families of painters, related bya common ideal and similar methods, just as the State implieduniformity of religious and political sentiments. Individualism,which has shattered this uniformity, has destroyed both State andSchool in the earlv sense. The solidarity which now unites themen of a group and the artists of a school is of a different of the successive kin


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