The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, RA. . ve sentiment. A glorious day of Junethrows its beams over the landscape ; the foliage is inits summer prime ; the sky tells of movement andchange ; the scene is peaceful, yet imbued with lies the city which the painter delights tohonour. How many such summer days have shone onits spires and towers? What generations of men havecome forth from its walls to gaze on the stream, andwatch the unfolding of life and the play of light overthe landscape ! Everything changes; but the cityremains : it will see many such a glorious day, and bethe chos
The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, RA. . ve sentiment. A glorious day of Junethrows its beams over the landscape ; the foliage is inits summer prime ; the sky tells of movement andchange ; the scene is peaceful, yet imbued with lies the city which the painter delights tohonour. How many such summer days have shone onits spires and towers? What generations of men havecome forth from its walls to gaze on the stream, andwatch the unfolding of life and the play of light overthe landscape ! Everything changes; but the cityremains : it will see many such a glorious day, and bethe chosen home of learning for many a year. Still,Nature renews herself, and outlives man and all his l< OXFORD FROM TFFLEYP 27 works. The stream reflects the sky as it has done forthousands of years, and will do for thousands to double suggestion of mutability is thus conveyed ;the daily changes of Nature are contrasted with thestability of mans work ; and, again, as a further thought,the inner permanence of Nature is compared with the. STUDY FOE THE LEFT OF THE PICTURE. brief life of even the most enduring structures rearedby human hands. A landscape-painter is rarely, perhaps, entirely 28 VI CAT COLES LIFE AND WORKS. conscious of all the sentiment which his picture revealsto others. He feels it and expresses it in his painting,in which his power of realisation lies; but he wouldoften be surprised to see the same feeling described inwords. The more imaginative the artist, the less likelyit is that he will put his thoughts into definite art gives him a quicker and surer power of ex-pressing his voiceless imaginations, and his silent per-ception of that which lies beneath the outward formconverts the simplest scene into an artistic poem. VicatCole did not say, even to himself, what ideas inspirethis Oxford picture. He has expressed them in thelanguage of Art; and to those who understand thatlanguage no translation is needed. Any translation mustbe weaker than th
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