How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods . ng the salient qualities ofobjects, and of uniting them into a whole that will sug-gest rather than definitely describe. But all this time the inspiration of his work was Italyand the Italian landscape; it was not until he had re-turned from his third visit thither, and was forty-six,that the landscape of France began to appeal to hisimagination. He became acquainted at last with Rous-seau,
How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods . ng the salient qualities ofobjects, and of uniting them into a whole that will sug-gest rather than definitely describe. But all this time the inspiration of his work was Italyand the Italian landscape; it was not until he had re-turned from his third visit thither, and was forty-six,that the landscape of France began to appeal to hisimagination. He became acquainted at last with Rous-seau, and with the aim of the Barbizon artists to repre-sent nature as surrounded by air and light, and he setto work to learn the method of painting these qualities,reaching finally a style that is peculiar to himself. It is so closely a result of his personal attitude towardnature, particularly toward the dawn and evening, whichwere his favorite moments, that a letter to Jules Dupre,in which he describes his sensations at these moments,gives one an understanding of his style. One gets up early, at three in the morning, before the sun;one goes and sits at the foot of a tree; one watches and waits. [328].
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