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Identifier: americanartamer01mont (find matches)
Title: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Montgomery, Walter
Subjects: Art Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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s, has such a fascination forhim that in contemporaneous art it has become a sort of monopoly for his talent, so muchso that one experiences an involuntary astonishment upon seeing a view of Venice not signedwith his name. His Grand Canal is a misty, yet gorgeous picture, with a fiery tone pervadingit which is unusual in Venetian scenes. Ricos Venice, on the contrary, is of the conventionalhue intensified, but it is a very masterly work. It is an architectural picture, a near immediateview, and the treatment of the buildings, with their scintillating reflected lights and shadows, isvery strong and skilful. This is one of the paintings improved by gas-light, as the garishnessof the blues is thereby lessened. Our space is nearly filled; therefore we must leave the dazzling scenes which we havelast been contemplating, to enable us for a moment to penetrate the forest with Diaz, or tendthe sheep with Jacque; view the landscape with Jules Dupre, or sit beneath the oak with AMERICAN ART 121
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Landscape. — By Dupre.Pen-and-Ink Sketch by James D. Smillie. — From a Photograph. Courbet. It is to Englands great original landscapist, John Constable, that we are indebted forthe modern school of French landscape painting. At last the Channel has been crossed, andsome good found in Nazareth. He showed what use could be made of simple nature, whatpower there was in atmospheric effects; and Jules Dupre may be said to have been the first tolearn the lesson and follow it. Dupre is a powerful colorist, and has a thorough mastery ofthe almost imperceptible gradations of light and shade in nature, which gives to his pictures atone the most winning and attractive. If he excels in any particular, it is in his masses offoliage, which are strong in their massiveness, yet always full of life and air. His distances, too,are skilfully handled, so that it has been said, You lose yourself in them before you are awareyou have left the foreground. His work is simple and truthful, and the two pic

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  • bookyear:1889
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Art
  • booksubject:Artists
  • bookpublisher:Boston__E_W__Walker___co
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  • bookleafnumber:150
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