This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...theme which have passed through the Salon, look forced and garish, its realism being of the higher order. Put its veracity aside and you still have what is, after all, the thing most worth having in the circumstances, --a beautiful work of art, beautiful in its rich darks, its luminous yet restrained yellows, its ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...theme which have passed through the Salon, look forced and garish, its realism being of the higher order. Put its veracity aside and you still have what is, after all, the thing most worth having in the circumstances, --a beautiful work of art, beautiful in its rich darks, its luminous yet restrained yellows, its grouping of some eight or ten figures in a design which seems simplicity itself--until you take the trouble to analyze the balance of its movement, and the subtle co-ordination of its values. What holds one, moreover, in this production of a young man still in his twenties, is its astonishing aplomb; the ease and keen unhackneyed "attack" with which the thing is done, proclaim a painter who has "arrived" and with whom modern art will henceforth have to reckon. It has been reckoning with him ever since, now breathless with admiration, now full of impatience and indignation over some ill-considered piece of work, but never indifferent. One way of emphasizing this point is to face the fact that for years Sargent sent scarcely anything save portraits to the exhibitions. A great portrait is one of the greatest things in the world, but it is not, to-day, the portrait-painter of whom one would ordinarily hear most. The subject-picture has a way of taking the centre of the stage, and for years after "El Jaleo" was painted, Sargent did nothing save the charming "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose," to follow up the success of that work. His decorations for the Boston Public Library occupy a place apart in his activity, and form in no sense a sequence to his early triumph. Possibly we have lost by his abstention, though it may be that he gives us all that it is really delightful to have, outside of his portraiture, in such stu...
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