File:The art of painting in the nineteenth century (1908) (14596947047).jpg

Identifier: artofpaintinginn00machrich (find matches)
Title: The art of painting in the nineteenth century
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Mach, Edmund von, 1870-1927
Subjects: Painting -- History
Publisher: Boston and London, Ginn and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
r-sally recognized to-day as the more worthy.Their conception of the value of the visiblepicture was not less, but their respect for naturewas greater; and they knew that the most power-ful message is not always conveyed by giganticmountains or remarkable phenomena, but, on thecontrary, by placid sceneries. The quiet orchard,the still meadows, and peaceful country dis-tricts,— all can speak to him who listens. Andthey listened. They sank their personality in thevastness of natures great appeal to mankind. Inness was the leader. He had learned toknow nature as well as Corot and his Barbizonfriends knew her. Like a Greek, it has beensaid, he felt God in the stream or grove, theimmanent presence of superhuman powers ; andlike a Greek, he knew how to make the spectatorsee with his eyes and feel with his emotions.Wyant followed in his path, and, although a lessversatile man, added to his achievements such adelicate refinement that he stands unrivaled inthis respect by any other American.
Text Appearing After Image:
Asher Brown Durand Landscape I * e • AMERICAN PAINTING 107 Third Period All these men had formed their styles andachieved their reputations prior to the first WorldsFair held in America in 1876. On this occasionthere were exhibited in this country collections ofpictures from abroad, which made such a power-ful impression on the native artists that 1876 isgenerally taken as the date when the third periodof American art begins, — a period during whichthe technical skill of the artists has been devel-oped to such a degree that it may be said to beinferior to none. In the preceding period most ofthe men who went abroad sought instruction inGermany, first in Dusseldorf and later in Munich.After 1876 most art students went to France.Italy, of course, had always been visited by allwho could afford it, but not so much for contactwith living men as for the inspiration derivedfrom the old masters. Unlike the first Ameri-can painters, those of the recent generation wentabroad as young and un

Note About Images