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I blame most of this on modern artists getting above their station in society .
Classical ... The romantic view of the artist ( all that free spirit and heroic genius )
put paid to this idea , and left the patrons being told what ought to satisfy them .
Things ...
I blame most of this on modern artists getting above their station in society .
Classical ... The romantic view of the artist ( all that free spirit and heroic genius )
put paid to this idea , and left the patrons being told what ought to satisfy them .
Things ...
Page 204
As the artist Poussin said , " the style is the personal manner of painting and
drawing and arises from each artist's particular genius in the application and use
of these ideas " ( quoted in Goldwater and Treves 1945 , 6 ) . So even the
underlying ...
As the artist Poussin said , " the style is the personal manner of painting and
drawing and arises from each artist's particular genius in the application and use
of these ideas " ( quoted in Goldwater and Treves 1945 , 6 ) . So even the
underlying ...
Page 212
Yet he has to recognise that in the life of Christ the artists of the period were
representing , like their predecessors , a vivid ... imagination not only of the artist
but also of the viewer was restricted by such developments as see at Ravenna
and in ...
Yet he has to recognise that in the life of Christ the artists of the period were
representing , like their predecessors , a vivid ... imagination not only of the artist
but also of the viewer was restricted by such developments as see at Ravenna
and in ...
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