. What pictures to see in America. , When I painted him,he had just had a set of false teeth inserted,which accounts for the constrained expressionso noticeable about the mouth and lower partof the face. He probably meant the bars. The arrangement of Stuarts palette wassimplicity itself, yet his wonderful skill in lay-ing colors has left his canvases nearly as freshto-day as a century ago. Benjamin West wouldsay to his pupils: It is no use to steal Stu-arts colors; if you want to paint as he does,you must steal his eyes. Probably Turners Slave Ship (Fig. 9)caused more criticism pro and con tha
. What pictures to see in America. , When I painted him,he had just had a set of false teeth inserted,which accounts for the constrained expressionso noticeable about the mouth and lower partof the face. He probably meant the bars. The arrangement of Stuarts palette wassimplicity itself, yet his wonderful skill in lay-ing colors has left his canvases nearly as freshto-day as a century ago. Benjamin West wouldsay to his pupils: It is no use to steal Stu-arts colors; if you want to paint as he does,you must steal his eyes. Probably Turners Slave Ship (Fig. 9)caused more criticism pro and con than anyother picture ever brought to our gradation of opinion was expressed fromRuskins extravagant encomium where hesays: I believe, if I were reduced to restTurners immortality upon any single work, Ishould choose this [the Slave Ship]; thecolor is absolutely perfect, to the frank dis-approval of our own George Inness, when hesays that it is the most infernal piece of clap-trap ever painted. There is nothing in it. It. Fig. 8—Portrait of Washington. Gilbert Stuart. Boston,Muscuin of Fine Arts.
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