 | 1899 - 862 pagine
...maxims, gathered by the pupils in the Académie Whistler, as they fell from the lips of the master: A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared. Industry in art is a necessity — not a virtue — and any evidence of the same in the production... | |
 | 1903 - 980 pagine
...of perpetual interest to his critics, he offers in his work the proof of Mr. Whistler's maxim, that "a picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared." I am aware of the danger in approaching Mr. Sargent along these cheerful lines. For the last two or... | |
 | 1890 - 270 pagine
...processes ; so that we may say, on the authority of all the masterpieces, that a picture is finished only when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared. THEODORE CHILD, in the Atlantic Monthly. Ars longa vita brevis. Art is long and life is short. So Longfellow... | |
 | Theodore Child - 1892 - 372 pagine
...processes ; so that we may say, on the authority of all the masterpieces, that a picture is finished only when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared. Taking Millet's work as a whole, its chief interest is moral and literary rather than artistic ; the... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1900 - 1004 pagine
...PAINTINGS FOR THE MENDELSSOHN GLEE CLUB. BY ROYAL CORTISSOZ. MR. WHISTLER has laid it down as an axiom that "a picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared"; and, ringing the changes on this excellent prop- m . osition, he goes on to assure us that "the work... | |
 | 1903 - 80 pagine
...creed. It is a finished picture, qualifying as such even under the rigid rule he has laid down — "A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared." The sweet, placid face of the seated figure — the folded hands, the black and white of dress and... | |
 | Thomas Robert Way, George Ravenscroft Dennis - 1903 - 272 pagine
...overlooked by no critics. It is taken from " L'Envoie" to the catalogue of the exhibition of 1884. "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... | |
 | N. D'Anvers - 1904 - 108 pagine
...effects, fully illustrating the propositions laid down by their author in "L'Envoie" of his catalogue: "a picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared. Industry in Art is a necessity, not a virtue, and any evidence of the same in the production is a blemish,... | |
 | 1904 - 680 pagine
..."Rossetti, take out the picture and frame the sonnet !" Almost a new axiom is announced in the sentence: "A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared." Incidents are entertaining, as when Whistler drags a sitter over Paris to find a brown necktie that... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - 1904 - 364 pagine
...good sir, yours, etc." Atlas, d bientot. ST. IVES, CORNWALL, Jan. 25, 1884. Propositions — No. 2 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... | |
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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. 
