. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. CO = O < W Q 9 CO. IVilleiii Roelofs give us back nature and truth. In a time of affec-tation and artificial cleverness it was he who withsome others forced himself out of the conventionalcomposition and polished painting. At once heunderstood that there was beauty in the Dutchmeadows, in the mills, in the skie?, that no finesubject was required to paint a fine picture : in-terpretation alone and feeling could make awork of art out of anything, though he still con-sidered le choix dans le vrai as ancien
. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. CO = O < W Q 9 CO. IVilleiii Roelofs give us back nature and truth. In a time of affec-tation and artificial cleverness it was he who withsome others forced himself out of the conventionalcomposition and polished painting. At once heunderstood that there was beauty in the Dutchmeadows, in the mills, in the skie?, that no finesubject was required to paint a fine picture : in-terpretation alone and feeling could make awork of art out of anything, though he still con-sidered le choix dans le vrai as ancient oaks, no picturesque well, no concaveroad was needed any more; the most simplesubject could be converted into a moment was a revelation to the artist, arenewal, an extension of his horizon. At the same time it would be a great mistaketo imagine from the foregoing that Roelofs, afterthe fashion of certain English painters, was of theopinion that the futile attempt slavishly to copynature was sufticient to produce a work of was to be studied indefatigably, and
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