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 18
... skill in weaving harmonious and captivating phrases , instead of urging himself toward heroism , and drawing toward it the souls which he influences , surrenders himself in his writings to all the seductions of the life of ease , uses ...
... skill in weaving harmonious and captivating phrases , instead of urging himself toward heroism , and drawing toward it the souls which he influences , surrenders himself in his writings to all the seductions of the life of ease , uses ...
Pagina 42
... as a definition of fine art . But it is so widely disseminated that , in Arkansas , a negro barber , who has enough skill to be popular , among those who have them- selves shaved , will consider himself an " artist " 42 GREAT WORKS OF ART.
... as a definition of fine art . But it is so widely disseminated that , in Arkansas , a negro barber , who has enough skill to be popular , among those who have them- selves shaved , will consider himself an " artist " 42 GREAT WORKS OF ART.
Pagina 43
... skill , or anyone's skill , dexterity , or way of doing things , the basis of a definition of art ? The same is true of a cowboy lassoing a steer ; or of a bil- liardist making a " run " of 100 points . Both of these occupa- tions ...
... skill , or anyone's skill , dexterity , or way of doing things , the basis of a definition of art ? The same is true of a cowboy lassoing a steer ; or of a bil- liardist making a " run " of 100 points . Both of these occupa- tions ...
Pagina 44
... 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 their ...
... 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 their ...
Pagina 55
... skill may be required to produce them , they must all be rele- gated to the category of works of industry . But works of art also have a use , it is true , but only a spiritual , a sublimating use , lifting man above the monotony of ...
... skill may be required to produce them , they must all be rele- gated to the category of works of industry . But works of art also have a use , it is true , but only a spiritual , a sublimating use , lifting man above the monotony of ...
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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 Fred Wellington Ruckstull Visualizzazione completa - 1925 |
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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 x - Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion. A wise writer will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit.
Pagina 495 - Heaven-born, the Soul a heaven-ward course must hold ; Beyond the visible world she soars to seek (For what delights the sense is false and weak) Ideal Form, the universal mould. The wise man, I affirm, can find no rest In that which perishes : nor will he lend His heart to aught which doth on time depend. "Tis sense, unbridled will, and not true love, That kills the soul: love betters what is best, Even here below, but more in Heaven above.
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 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 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 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 225 - The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell. ... As Music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight, and the subject matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.
Pagina 338 - This emotion is called the aesthetic emotion; and if we can discover some quality common and peculiar to all the objects that provoke it, we shall have solved what I take to be the central problem of aesthetics. We shall have discovered the essential quality in a work of art, the quality that distinguishes works of art from all other classes of objects. For either all works of visual art have some common quality, or when we speak of "works of art