The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Knight ...: Containing His Discourses, Idlers, A Journey to Flanders and Holland, and His Commentary on Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting, Volume 1T. Cadell, Jr. and W. Davies, 1801 |
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Pagina vii
... never afterwards had occasion to study any other treatise on that subject . " He then attempted to draw the School at Plympton , a building elevated on stone pillars ; and he did it so well , that his father said , " Now this ex ...
... never afterwards had occasion to study any other treatise on that subject . " He then attempted to draw the School at Plympton , a building elevated on stone pillars ; and he did it so well , that his father said , " Now this ex ...
Pagina xxxv
... never gives but to in- dustry and perspicuity , a firm and unshaken settlement of conviction . But his firmness was without asperity ; for , knowing with how much difficulty truth was sometimes found , he did not wonder that many missed ...
... never gives but to in- dustry and perspicuity , a firm and unshaken settlement of conviction . But his firmness was without asperity ; for , knowing with how much difficulty truth was sometimes found , he did not wonder that many missed ...
Pagina xliii
... never saw any one of his Discourses in the handwriting of that illustrious statesman , or of any other person whatsoever , except Sir Joshua Rey- nolds ; and secondly I say , that I am as firmly persuaded that the whole body of these ...
... never saw any one of his Discourses in the handwriting of that illustrious statesman , or of any other person whatsoever , except Sir Joshua Rey- nolds ; and secondly I say , that I am as firmly persuaded that the whole body of these ...
Pagina xlix
... never had the faci- lity of drawing the naked figure , which an artist ought to have . It appeared to me too late , when I went to Italy and began to feel my own deficiencies , to endeavour to acquire that readiness of invention which I ...
... never had the faci- lity of drawing the naked figure , which an artist ought to have . It appeared to me too late , when I went to Italy and began to feel my own deficiencies , to endeavour to acquire that readiness of invention which I ...
Pagina l
... never was contented with common - place attitudes3 * or inventions of any kind .--- 32 Our great artist's excellence in this respect has been highly extolled by the late Lord Orford : " How painting has rekindled from its embers ...
... never was contented with common - place attitudes3 * or inventions of any kind .--- 32 Our great artist's excellence in this respect has been highly extolled by the late Lord Orford : " How painting has rekindled from its embers ...
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Pagina lxxxvi - Here Reynolds is laid, and, to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind ; His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand ; His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart...
Pagina 55 - A man cannot tell, whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions, the other by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one Excellent.
Pagina 64 - He will permit the lower painter, like the florist or collector of shells, to exhibit the minute discriminations, which distinguish one object of the same species from another ; while he, like the philosopher, will consider nature in the abstract, and represent in every one of his figures the character of its species.
Pagina 52 - All the objects which are exhibited to our view by nature, upon close examination will be found to have their blemishes and defects.
Pagina 187 - To understand literally these metaphors, or ideas expressed in poetical language, seems to be equally absurd as to conclude that because painters sometimes represent poets writing from the dictates of a little winged boy or genius, that this same genius did really inform him in a whisper what he was to write; and that he is himself but a mere machine, unconscious of the operations of his own mind.
Pagina xxvii - their excellence and their value consisted in being the observations of a strong mind operating upon life ; and in consequence you find there what you seldom find in other books.
Pagina xvi - I found myself in the midst of works executed upon principles with which I was unacquainted : I felt my ignorance and stood abashed. All the indigested notions of painting which I had brought with me from England, where the art was in the lowest state it had ever been in, (it could not indeed be lower,) were to be totally done away, and eradicated from my mind. It was necessary, as it is expressed on a very solemn occasion, J that I should become as a little child.
Pagina 7 - I WOULD chiefly recommend, that an implicit obedience to the Rules of Art, as established by the practice of the great MASTERS, should be exacted from the young Students., That those models, which have passed through the approbation of ages, should be considered by them as perfect and infallible guides; as subjects for their imitation, not their criticism.
Pagina 73 - HE value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labour employed in it, or the mental pleasure produced by it. As this principle is observed or neglected, our profession becomes either a liberal art, or a mechanical trade.
Pagina 61 - Painting; the painter must never mistake this capricious changeling for the genuine offspring of nature; he must divest himself of all prejudices in favour of his age or country; he must disregard all local and temporary ornaments, and look only on those general habits which are every where and always the same.