. International studio. nies out in them,produced. He was a rather old-fashioned sort of It is not that they are technically well made; person, not at all bumptious, and perhaps a littledistrustful of his own powers, yet fully convincedthat his way of doing things was the right way,for him, and the only way. He had little or nofacility, and worked over a canvas with a gooddeal of what looked likeexperimental gropingafter something thatdidnt always come; butwhen he succeeded ingetting what he wasafter it was unique andpriceless. Just what itwas is the harder todefine in words becauseit was not
. International studio. nies out in them,produced. He was a rather old-fashioned sort of It is not that they are technically well made; person, not at all bumptious, and perhaps a littledistrustful of his own powers, yet fully convincedthat his way of doing things was the right way,for him, and the only way. He had little or nofacility, and worked over a canvas with a gooddeal of what looked likeexperimental gropingafter something thatdidnt always come; butwhen he succeeded ingetting what he wasafter it was unique andpriceless. Just what itwas is the harder todefine in words becauseit was not altogether amaterial, physical, orsuperficial quality, butdistinctly moral, spirit-ual and interior beauty—the kind of beautythat somehow survivesthe chances and changes? I tune and fashion andtaste, and partakes ofan artistic so different, itbelongs to the death-less class of works ofart to which we assign the rare visions PORTRAIT III B BY GEORGE FULLER ol Hans Mcmlmg ol Bruges. Fuller at age of 29. in point of fact they are not remarkable inthis respect; but one feels that they are theworks of a man of ideas, of strong feeling, ofimagination. He had, too, an ideal of beautyand it was not commonplace. To it he was un-swervingly loyal. Suc-cess and a measure offame came to him inthe closing \ears of hislife, but prosperity didnot spoil him. He hadnot been soured byach ersit \, but bore-it with patience andwith serenity. I he trouble withmost of us, he said oneday, is that we do notwork hard enough; wedo not spend enoughtime over a picture;«c do not devoteenough thought :And at anotas we stoodat one of i pid uibut a f(canvas. I paint on a in it? mceRnACionAL
Size: 1409px × 1773px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury180, booksubjectart, booksubjectdecorationandornament
