. Artists and Arabs; or, Sketching in sunshine. es-sion in the morning, which will not change;he will give no trouble whatever; he will butsit still and croak. Do we seem to exaggerate the value of suchstudies? We cannot exaggerate, if we take intofull account the vigorous quality which we im-part into our work. And we cannot, perhaps,better illustrate our argument in favor of draw-ing from what we should call natural models,than by comparing the merits of two of themost popular pictures of our time, namely, Friths Derby Day and Eosa Eonheurs HorseFair1; the former pleasing the eye by its clev
. Artists and Arabs; or, Sketching in sunshine. es-sion in the morning, which will not change;he will give no trouble whatever; he will butsit still and croak. Do we seem to exaggerate the value of suchstudies? We cannot exaggerate, if we take intofull account the vigorous quality which we im-part into our work. And we cannot, perhaps,better illustrate our argument in favor of draw-ing from what we should call natural models,than by comparing the merits of two of themost popular pictures of our time, namely, Friths Derby Day and Eosa Eonheurs HorseFair1; the former pleasing the eye by its clev-erness and prettiness, the latter impressing thespectator by its power, and its truthful render-ing of animal life. The difference between thetwo painters is probably one more of educationthan of natural gifts. Eut whilst the style of MODELS. 93 the former is grafted on a fashion, the latter isfounded on a rock, — the result of a close studyof nature, chastened by classic feeling, and aremembrance, it may be, of the friezes of OUR LIFE SCHOOL. CHAPTER V. OUR LIFE SCHOOL. OF the various studies to be made in Al-giers, there are none so characteristic as theMoors in their homes, seated at their own doorsor benches at work, or at the numerous cafes andbazaars; and nothing seems to harmonize so wellin these Moorish streets as the groups of natives,both Moors and negroes, with their bright cos-tumes, and wares for sale. Color and contrast ofcolor seem to be considered, or felt, , for instance, no two Orientals will walkdown a street side by side, unless the colors oftheir costume harmonize or blend together (theyseem to know it instinctively); and then there is 96 ARTISTS AND ARABS. always gray or some quiet contrasting tone for abackground, and a sky of deep blue. A negresswill generally be found selling oranges or citrons;an Arab boy, with a red fez and white turban,carrying purple fruit in a basket of leaves :. andso on. The reader will think this
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