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. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... PAINTING AND THE PERSONAL EQUATION PART I THE PAINTER The dealer and the painter were sitting hand in hand; a compromising situation, one might say, but not unprecedented, for we have the parallel of the lion and the lamb, as well as that of the walrus and his fellow philosopher. The dealer, in his ...
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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. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... PAINTING AND THE PERSONAL EQUATION PART I THE PAINTER The dealer and the painter were sitting hand in hand; a compromising situation, one might say, but not unprecedented, for we have the parallel of the lion and the lamb, as well as that of the walrus and his fellow philosopher. The dealer, in his simple, artless way, was demonstrating that the value of a picture lay in rarity, fashion, and subject. He was willing to admit that there might be an artistic value also, but that had nothing to do with practical considerations and was not to be taken into account. Of the three important elements there seemed to the painter to be but one that he could control, that of subject; to be really rare, he would have to be dead, and to be the fashion depended a good deal on other people. Even in the subject he found difficulties, for that negligible artistic value seemed to influence his choice and carry him to places where practical people were few. "Human interest," said the dealer," fundamental human interest." "Why, yes," said the painter; "but, even there, one finds difficulties. I saw a portrait of a five-dollar bill once that landed the artist in jail, a criminal likeness, as some portraits of people. But of course it is scarcely a fair example, for art is not imitation, and if the artist had tried to express his sensation on seeing a five-dollar bill, or how it looked in relation to its surroundings, he might have been a blameless and successful man." "I mean human interest," said the dealer coldly, "such as the modern Dutch school represents. We have sold a great many of such pictures lately." "I know one of the best of the Dutchmen," said the painter, "a very good man, too. Heboid me, however, that he could never sell one of his pictures...
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