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. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...57 is too much of a jumble. There are no leading lines, they all interfere with each other. 1'erhaps it is the fault of the subject. There are many subjects that can be photographed but somehow evade the laws of pictorial composition. Impressionism has tried to overthrow many of the older forms of ...
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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. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...57 is too much of a jumble. There are no leading lines, they all interfere with each other. 1'erhaps it is the fault of the subject. There are many subjects that can be photographed but somehow evade the laws of pictorial composition. Impressionism has tried to overthrow many of the older forms of composition and in a way has been successful. It has championed a certain lawlessness, a disregard for perspective and chiaroscura, and standard forms of construction, and laid special stress upon spacing, silhouetting, and the reproduction of sunlight. The impressionists claim that nature's forms in themselves are compositions, and that the best paintings are those that simply repeat in color what is seen by the human eye. Ernest Lawson's "Fort George" is such a production. It is confused enough. It is surely no masterpiece of composition and yet it follows out certain ideas of composition in a vague haphazard manner. Why the white horse in the foreground? Surely, not merely because it happened to pass by when the painter painted the picture, but rather as a balancing note for the white pole, railing, and swing stand. And why the repetition of tree forms and the vertical and horizontal lines? I believe, there is as much composition in Childc Hassam, good impressionistic pictures as in any others. They carry out the Japanese idea, that every flower and every tree has its own peculiar rhythm and linear beauty, and that in painting a birch tree for instance, you should depict these qualities that are intrinsically its own. In other words, let the scene itself which you wish to depict determine your composition. This is just reverse of the other method, to find a subject suitable for the special treatment and idea of composition which you...
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