. Art in California : a survey of American art with special reference to Californian painting, sculpture and architecture past and present, particularly as those arts were represented at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition : being essays and articles by the following contributors. WATER—THE FOUNTAIN By Frank Brangwyn Where the thin line of water juts in a graceful bow from the spring,the people have come, with their bright vessels, for water Plate No. 2Jf). Plate No. 290 MURAL DECORATIONS AT THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION By HAMILTON WRIGHT MURAL PAINTINGS are essentially
. Art in California : a survey of American art with special reference to Californian painting, sculpture and architecture past and present, particularly as those arts were represented at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition : being essays and articles by the following contributors. WATER—THE FOUNTAIN By Frank Brangwyn Where the thin line of water juts in a graceful bow from the spring,the people have come, with their bright vessels, for water Plate No. 2Jf). Plate No. 290 MURAL DECORATIONS AT THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION By HAMILTON WRIGHT MURAL PAINTINGS are essentially formal. They are designed topresent a decorative effect. At the Panama-Pacific InternationalExposition they were employed to admirable advantage. In itsdecorative quality, a mural should possess that peculiar fitness to itssurroundings, to the nearby architecture and color that may beobserved in some magnificent tessellated doorway or in an exquisiteportal reproducing the craftsmanship of ages gone. Yet for all itsformalism, the mural should be a jewel, rich in color, shining and lus-trous, expressing the mentality of its author and giving the spirit andfeeling of the scene or design he presents without adhering too closelyto any mathematical reproduction or formula. Paintings are not por-traits. The camera, for example, records or should record a scene withabsolute fidelity; and if absolute exactness, such as is secured by thecamera, were the test of excel
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