That feeling for reality which made the great painters look upon a
picture as the representation of a cubic content of atmosphere enveloping all
the objects depicted, made them also consider the fact that the given quantity
of atmosphere is sure to contain other objects than those the artist wants for
his purpose. He is free to leave them out,5+ Pieces paintings, of course, but in so far as he does,
so far is he from producing an effect of reality. The eye does not see
everything, but all the eye would naturally see along with the principal
objects, must be painted, or the picture will not look true to life. This
incorporation of small episodes running parallel with the subject rather than
forming part of it, is one of the chief characteristics of modern as
distinguished from ancient art. It is this which makes the Elizabethan drama so
different from the Greek.abstract oil paintings for sale It is this again which already separates the works of
Duccio and Giotto from the plastic arts of Antiquity. Painting lends itself
willingly to the consideration of minor episodes, and for that reason is almost
as well fitted to be in touch with modern life as the novel itself. Such a
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No better illustration of this can be found among Italian masters than
Tintoretto's "Crucifixion" in the Scuola di San Rocco. The scene is a vast one,
and although Christ is on the Cross, life does not stop. To most of the people
gathered there, what takes place is no more than a common execution. Many of
them are attending to it as to a tedious duty. Others work away at some menial
task more or less connected with the Crucifixion,oil painting on canvas for sale, as unconcerned as cobblers
humming over their last. Most of the people in the huge canvas are represented,
as no doubt they were in life, without much personal feeling about Christ. His
own friends are painted with all their grief and despair, but the others are
allowed to feel as they please. The painter does not try to give them the proper
emotions. If one of the great novelists of to-day, if Tolstoi, for instance,
were to describe the Crucifixion, his account would read as if it were a
description of Tintoretto's picture.original oil paintings wholesale But Tintoretto's fairness went even further
than letting all the spectators feel as they pleased about what he himself
believed to be the greatest event that ever took place. Among this multitude he
allowed the light of heaven to shine upon the wicked as well as upon the good,
and the air to refresh them all equally. In other words, this enormous canvas is
a great sea of air and light at the bottom of which the scene takes place.
Without the atmosphere and the just distribution of light, it would look as
lifeless and desolate, in spite of the crowd and animation, as if it were the
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