John Quincy Adams Ward: An AppreciationGilliss Press, 1912 - 64 pagine |
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Pagina 23 - A limbeck only; when in swinish sleep Their drenched natures lie, as in a death, What cannot you and I perform upon...
Pagina 12 - ... hundred guineas ; and when the statue was done, we paid the expenses of one of his under workmen to come over and set it up, which might, perhaps, be one hundred guineas more. I suppose, therefore, it cost us, in the whole, eight thousand dollars. But this was only of the size of life. Yours should be something larger. The difference it makes in the impression can scarcely be conceived. As to the style or costume, I am sure the artist, and every person of taste in Europe, would be for the Roman,...
Pagina vii - Ch' un marmo solo in se non circoscriva Col suo soverchio , e solo a quello arriva La man che obbedisce all
Pagina 40 - ... that architectural conception of work, which foresees the end in the beginning and never loses sight of it, and in every part is conscious of all the rest, till the last sentence does but, with undiminished vigour, unfold and justify the first...
Pagina 12 - Who should make it ? There can be but one answer to this. Old Canova, of Rome. No artist in Europe would place himself in a line with him ; and for thirty years, within my own knowledge, he has been considered by all Europe as without a rival.
Pagina 2 - DORN in Urbana, Ohio, in 1830, Ward is still an active force among American sculptors. His career connects the past with the present, spanning the long interval like a bridge: one pier, embedded in the old condition of things when American sculptors first began to make America the scene and inspiration of their art, its arch mounting above the indifference to, and ignorance of, things artistic which prevailed before the influence of European art began to be felt here, and its other pier firmly incorporated...
Pagina 21 - There is a cursed atmosphere about that place (Rome) which somehow kills every artist who goes there. The magnetism of the antique statues is so strong that it draws a sculptor's manhood out of him. From the days of Thorwaldsen, the works produced there are namby-pamby when compared with those glorious models.
Pagina 22 - In sculpture, no man can ignore the grandeur and the beauty of the antique. Adhere to nature, by all means, but assist your intelligence and correct your taste by the study of the best Greek works. If one is faithful and conscientious, he will find that every good Greek work is verified in nature. After years of observation, I have found things in nature that I once doubted, and the joy of the discovery was intense.
Pagina 21 - A modern man has modern themes to deal with; and if art is a living thing, a serious, earnest thing fresh from a man's soul, he must live in that of which he treats.
Pagina 54 - Trustee and life member of the American Academy at Rome. He was a member of the Architectural League of New York, the...