The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, RA. . 1892, was the lastwork of Vicat Coles which appeared on thewalls of the Royal Academy. If he couldbut have brought the Abbey forward, andthrust back the Houses of Parliament, hewould have been quite happy in his subject. Inhis eyes, the details of the one were as impressiveas those of the other were uninteresting. How was apainter to bring into a picture a mass of buildings,the details of which are impressed with the blanksameness of stencil - work ? A master of atmosphericeffects is never at a loss for expedients. By throwingover the buildings the v
The life and paintings of Vicat Cole, RA. . 1892, was the lastwork of Vicat Coles which appeared on thewalls of the Royal Academy. If he couldbut have brought the Abbey forward, andthrust back the Houses of Parliament, hewould have been quite happy in his subject. Inhis eyes, the details of the one were as impressiveas those of the other were uninteresting. How was apainter to bring into a picture a mass of buildings,the details of which are impressed with the blanksameness of stencil - work ? A master of atmosphericeffects is never at a loss for expedients. By throwingover the buildings the veil of evenings golden lightthe artist has dimmed all that is trivial and finical,whilst preserving the fine proportions of the mass. His method of designing and painting the buildingsin this picture should be described, if only to showthe want of knowledge, or want of candour, of certainnewspaper critics, one of whom wrote at the time :— There is a flimsiness and slightness about thepainting of the Abbey and Houses of Parliament which,.
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