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Title: A short history of art
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: De Forest, Julia B. d. 1910 Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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PORTRAIT OF HIMSELFThe painter of many lovely idyls of country life. SUMMARY OF MODERN PAINTING 707 Marees (1837-1887) Another artist of imagination was Hans von Marees, whowas not known beyond the limits of a small circle of ad-mirers until after his death. He was opposed to paintingfrom the model. If I paint a pug true to nature, hewould say, I have two pugs, but not a work of art.Consequently the drawing of his figures offends a student ofthe schools; it is considered childish. But his aim waspictorial decorative effect, and in such work as The Hes-perides and Three Youths —the one showing three fe-male nudes, the other three male nudes, placed against a land-scape of slender tree stems and water with winding banks—heproved a capacity for grand design in decoration that inhis day perhaps only Puvis de Chavannes surpassed. Thoma (1839- ) One other artist may be mentioned, Hans Thoma, who haslived a life of quiet work in Frankfort. He painted a bustportrait of himself, the eyes g

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