There remains but one question to be determined relating to this faculty, what operation, namely, supposing it possessed in high degree, it has or ought
to have in the artist's treatment of natural scenery. art oil painting for sale
I have just said that nature is always imaginative, but it does not follow
that her imagination is always of high subject, or that the imagination of all
the parts is of a like and sympathetic kind; the boughs of every bramble bush
are imaginatively arranged, so are those of every oak and cedar; but it does not
follow that there is imaginative sympathy between bramble and cedar. There are
few natural scenes whose harmonies are not conceivably improvable either by
banishment of some discordant point, or by addition of some sympathetic one; it
constantly happens that there is a profuseness too great to be comprehended, or
an inequality in the pitch,oil paintings on canvas for sale, meaning, and intensity of different parts. The
imagination will banish all that is extraneous, it will seize out of the many
threads of different feeling which nature has suffered to become entangled, one
only, and where that seems thin and likely to break, it will spin it stouter,
and in doing this, it never knots, but weaves in the new thread, so that all its
work looks as pure and true as nature itself, and cannot be guessed from it but
by its exceeding simplicity, (known from it, it cannot be,) so that
herein we find another test of the imaginative work, that it looks always as if
it had been gathered straight from nature, whereas the unimaginative shows its
joints and knots, and is visibly composition. oil paintings for sale cheap
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