The coming landscape-painter will be a four-hour man, of thorough
knowledge, one who has most intimate and close acquaintance with nature, one who
can select and then seize the salient features of the landscape, at a glance
arranging them upon the square of his canvas, in other words, composing them,
the basis being the most expansive and most picturesque grouping of the several
details of the subject,extracting at the same moment, at the same instant,
with one sweep of his eye, the whole scheme of local color, and then surely,
clearly, lovingly, and reverently making it breathe upon his canvas for other
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And how noble the ambition!
In our present civilization some men are moved to philanthropy, some to
science, some to be rulers of men. Some men are brimful and running over with
harmonies that will live forever. Other men's hearts beat in unison with the
symphonies of the spheres, and Homer and Milton and Dante become household
words. You seek another expression of the good that is in you. You will be
painters and sculptors. Color, form, and mass are to you what the pen, the
sword, and the lute are to those others who have gone before, or are now around
you. Your mission is as distinct as theirs, and it is as imperative that you should fulfil it.
Paint what you see and as you see it. Nothing more nor less. See only the
beautiful, and if you cannot reach that content yourself with the picturesque.
It is a first cousin but once removed. oil paintings for sale
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