Great Works of Art and what Makes Them GreatGarden City Publishing, 1925 - 552 pagine This is a book of combat, in which little quarter will be given to certain tendencies in the art world and the pessimistic cynicism and childish hypocrisy by which they are pushed forward. Ruckstull makes his point with 175 illustrations from the art world. |
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Pagina 21
... mere expression of per- sonal " style " or manner in art , be it ever so novel and flashy . Rousseau and his followers had not elevated into a cult this mania for " the expression of one's ' personality . " " It remained for the sick ...
... mere expression of per- sonal " style " or manner in art , be it ever so novel and flashy . Rousseau and his followers had not elevated into a cult this mania for " the expression of one's ' personality . " " It remained for the sick ...
Pagina 44
... mere skill , no more difficult than the skill , or technique , needed to play first - class billiards , or baseball , or to properly drive a mule ! Does anyone suppose that any of these things is easy to do , or can be learned , in ...
... mere skill , no more difficult than the skill , or technique , needed to play first - class billiards , or baseball , or to properly drive a mule ! Does anyone suppose that any of these things is easy to do , or can be learned , in ...
Pagina 47
... mere natural fact . The spirit only intuites in making , forming , expressing . He who separates in- tuition from expression never succeeds in reuniting them . Intuitive activity possesses intuitions to the extent that it ex- presses ...
... mere natural fact . The spirit only intuites in making , forming , expressing . He who separates in- tuition from expression never succeeds in reuniting them . Intuitive activity possesses intuitions to the extent that it ex- presses ...
Pagina 51
... mere money- muckers . But the principal reason was that , down to 1850 , there was no need of clearing away the chaos in the world of art , because a need did not exist , for the reason that artists , from Phidias down to Couture ...
... mere money- muckers . But the principal reason was that , down to 1850 , there was no need of clearing away the chaos in the world of art , because a need did not exist , for the reason that artists , from Phidias down to Couture ...
Pagina 52
... mere artistry , are the modernistic artists of the last fifty years . To these , a work of art is great when it is painted or modelled or rhymed in a certain manner , or way : which they call " great . " So that , in their eyes , every ...
... mere artistry , are the modernistic artists of the last fifty years . To these , a work of art is great when it is painted or modelled or rhymed in a certain manner , or way : which they call " great . " So that , in their eyes , every ...
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Great Works of Art and what Makes Them Great: Reprint of Articles Published ... Fred Wellington Ruckstull Visualizzazione completa - 1925 |
Great Works of Art and what Makes Them Great: Reprint of Articles Published ... Fred Wellington Ruckstull Visualizzazione completa - 1925 |
Great Works of Art and what Makes Them Great: Reprint of Articles Published ... Fred Wellington Ruckstull Visualizzazione completa - 1925 |
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abstract art æsthetic American arouse Art World artist beauty become called Cézanne charlatan Claude Lorrain clever Clive Bell color commonplace composition creation critics cult decoration definition of art deformation degenerate degenerate art drawing earth ego-mania element emotion epoch exhibition expression eyes feeling French Giorgione give greatest Greek Hence highest human idea ideal imitation important insane intellectual less lifting lines living Manet mankind manner matter means melody merely Michael Angelo mind modern modernistic art monument moral morons movement Museum nature never nude object painter painting Paris Paris Salon perfect Phidias picture Plato poetic poetry portrait produced pyramidal Raphael Reader Rodin Roger Fry RUCKSTULL sadism in art sadistic Salon sculpture social soul spiritual statue style sublime symbolic technique Théophile Gautier things thought tion Titian trivial true truth ugly Velasquez Venus de Milo Victor Hugo vulgar words world of art
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Pagina 164 - Indeed there can be no more useful help for discovering what poetry belongs to the class of the truly excellent, and can therefore do us most good, than to have always in one's mind lines and expressions of the great masters, and to apply them as a touchstone to other poetry.
Pagina 202 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Pagina 85 - I dwelt alone In a world of moan, And my soul was a stagnant tide, Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride — Till the yellow-haired young Eulalie became my smiling bride.
Pagina 280 - Art should be independent of all clap-trap — should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works "arrangements
Pagina 478 - A PICTURE is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared. To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.
Pagina 2 - Doubt, chance, and mutability. Thy light alone, like mist o'er mountains driven Or music by the night wind sent Thro' strings of some still instrument, Or moonlight on a midnight stream, Gives grace and truth to life's unquiet dream.
Pagina 74 - No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed by all the members thereof. If no one turned round when we entered, answered when we spoke, or minded what we did, but if every person we met "cut us dead...
Pagina 35 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Pagina 354 - surprising;' and were reminded bitterly of Hazlitt's account of it: 'Excellent talker, very, — if you let him start from no premises and come to no conclusion.
Pagina 165 - Build thee more stately mansions, 0 my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low- vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!