The Complete Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds: First President of the Royal Academy : with an Original Memoir, and Anecdotes of the Author, Volume 2T. M'Lean, 1824 - Art |
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... character . Ineffectual attempts of the modern Sculptors to improve the art . Ill effects of mo- dern dress in Sculpture • DISCOURSE XI . Genius : consists principally in the comprehension of A WHOLE ; in taking general ideas only ...
... character . Ineffectual attempts of the modern Sculptors to improve the art . Ill effects of mo- dern dress in Sculpture • DISCOURSE XI . Genius : consists principally in the comprehension of A WHOLE ; in taking general ideas only ...
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... Character of Gainsborough : his excellencies and defects . DISCOURSE XV . • 111 The President takes leave of the Academy . A re- view of the Discourses . The study of the works of Michael Angelo recommended . The IDLER , No. 76 . 137 ...
... Character of Gainsborough : his excellencies and defects . DISCOURSE XV . • 111 The President takes leave of the Academy . A re- view of the Discourses . The study of the works of Michael Angelo recommended . The IDLER , No. 76 . 137 ...
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... character , the more we purify it from every thing that is gross in sense , in that pro- portion we advance its use and dignity ; and in proportion as we lower it to mere sensuality , we pervert its nature , and degrade it from the rank ...
... character , the more we purify it from every thing that is gross in sense , in that pro- portion we advance its use and dignity ; and in proportion as we lower it to mere sensuality , we pervert its nature , and degrade it from the rank ...
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... character . - Ineffectual attempts of the modern sculptors to improve the art . - Ill effects of modern dress in sculpture . GENTLEMEN , I SHALL now , as it has been customary on this day , and on this occasion , communicate to you such ...
... character . - Ineffectual attempts of the modern sculptors to improve the art . - Ill effects of modern dress in sculpture . GENTLEMEN , I SHALL now , as it has been customary on this day , and on this occasion , communicate to you such ...
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... character ; and those qualities are presented to us but in one manner , or in one style only ; whereas the powers of painting , as they are more various and extensive , so they are exhibited in as great a variety of manners . The Roman ...
... character ; and those qualities are presented to us but in one manner , or in one style only ; whereas the powers of painting , as they are more various and extensive , so they are exhibited in as great a variety of manners . The Roman ...
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Page 164 - I feel a self-congratulation in knowing myself capable of such sensations as he intended to excite. I reflect, not without vanity, that these Discourses bear testimony of my admiration of that truly divine man ; and I should desire that the last words which I should pronounce in this Academy, and from this place, might be the name of — MICHAEL ANGELO.* * Unfortunately for mankind, these were the last words pronounced by this great Painter from the Academical chair.
Page 176 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
Page 174 - There may perhaps be too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagination ; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense, but not common sense, must at last determine its limits.
Page 209 - Arimathea is the same countenance which he so often introduced in his works ; a smooth fat face,—a very un-historical character. The principal light is formed by the body of Christ and the white sheet ; there is no second light which bears any proportion to the principal ; in this respect...
Page 172 - Amongst the painters, and the writers on painting, there is one maxim universally admitted and continually inculcated. Imitate nature is the invariable rule; but I know none who have explained in what manner this rule is to be understood; the consequence of which is, that every one takes it in the most obvious sense, that objects are represented naturally when they have such relief that they seem real. It may appear strange, perhaps, to hear this sense of the rule disputed; but it must be considered,...
Page 170 - I shall trouble you no longer with my friend's observations, which, I suppose, you are now able to continue by yourself. It is curious to observe, that, at the same time that great admiration is pretended for a name of fixed reputation, objections are raised against those very qualities by which that great name was acquired.
Page 37 - Sculpture, is a sufficient proof that the pleasure we receive from imitation is not increased merely in proportion as it approaches to minute and detailed reality; we are pleased, on the contrary, by seeing ends accomplished by seemingly inadequate means. To express protuberance by actual relief, to express the softness of flesh by the softness of wax, seems rude and inartificial, and creates no grateful surprise. But to express distances on a plain surface, softness by hard bodies, and particular...
Page 72 - Raphael lived but thirty-seven years ; and in that short space carried the art so far beyond what it had before reached, that he appears to stand alone as a model to his successors.
Page 173 - ... minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of Nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly of a lower order, which ought to give place to a beauty of a superior kind, since one cannot be obtained but by departing from the other.
Page 150 - The Artists of that age, even Raffaelle himself, seemed to be going on very contentedly in the dry manner of Pietro Perugino; and if Michael Angelo had never appeared, the Art might still have continued in the same style.