This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...reproduction of some special spot, but they worked into their pictures the atmosphere, the undefined vitality that lingers in the mind long after material vision is erased. This is particularly true with the landscapes of Constant Troyon (1810-1865). His living, breathing cattle come in as a natural ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...reproduction of some special spot, but they worked into their pictures the atmosphere, the undefined vitality that lingers in the mind long after material vision is erased. This is particularly true with the landscapes of Constant Troyon (1810-1865). His living, breathing cattle come in as a natural part of the changing scene. "The Oxen Going to Work," Louvre (Fig. 99), could no more be left out of that morning scene than could the fields--one is dependent on the other to make a complete whole. As we step into the long gallery of the Louvre, where the picture hangs, we feel that largeness of conception is one of the qualities that makes Troyon's pictures understood--he speaks to that great majority of picture-lovers who feel the truth but cannot explain how. We stand before the picture and are alone with it. We watch the sun just peeping above the horizon send a flood of light over men and cattle; we feel the crisp morning air catch the breath of the plodding oxen and hold it in millions of globules while the sunlight, dancing over them, turns them into tiny rainbows. We seem to hear the crunch of the vielding soil under the heavy tread and see FIG. 100.--Return from Market. Troyon. Courtesy of the Art Institute, Chicago. how the quivering sides move rythmically with each breath. Even in the "Return from the Market," Art ilnstitute, Chicago (Fig. 100), where the sheep and horses fill the larger part of the canvas, Troyon's large conception of the big-out-of-doors dominates the picture. The sky is aglow with the long rays of the low sun. The flying dust particles, acting as prisms, set the air quivering and tint trees and roadside with rainbow glory. That Troyon understands animals is true, for no one...
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