The History of Modern Painting, Volume 3 (of 4): Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX centuryMuther, Richard
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The History of Modern Painting, Volume 3 (of 4): Revised edition continued by the author to the end of the XIX century
Muther, Richard
Painting -- History
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All his works are imposing through the decisive way in which he builds
up his masses, and the wonderful, rhythmical articulation of forms and
colours combined. The picture "Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh" which has
been given a place in the Luxembourg, and the large mural painting
"Commerce and Navigation" in the Royal Exchange in London, are up to now
his strongest work.
_F. Cayley Robinson_, who arrests one's attention with his austere,
almost heraldic arrangement of line, and his gloomy acerbity of colour;
_Miss Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale_, who awoke high hopes with her
picture "The Deceitfulness of Riches"; and that spirited draughtsman, W.
Nicholson, whose drawings lead the eye to and fro, backwards and
forwards, along heavy decided lines, noting every expressive turn and
movement. Almost all these masters have come to us from the applied
arts. It was the idea of attaining to unity of effect in decorative
ornament that impelled these artists to work in the spirit of to-day,
not that each should bring forward his own work of art and let it stand
by itself, but that the scheme of decorative architecture, modelling,
and painting should work together hand in hand in a homogeneous scheme
of decoration.
With all these artists one cannot help noticing that they owe much in
the way of light and leading to one who in England, the land of
poems-in-paint, proclaimed more outspokenly than anyone else the
principle of "Art for art's sake,"--to the great American, James M'Neill
Whistler.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CHAPTER XXVIII
In General:
John Ruskin: Letters to "The Times" on the Principal Pre-Raphaelite
Pictures in the Exhibition of 1854. Reprinted for Private Circulation.
London, 1876.
Pre-Raphaelitism: Its Art, Literature, and Professors, "London and
County Review," March 1868.
The Poetic Phase in Modern English Art, "New Quarterly Magazine," June
1879.
William Holman Hunt: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, "Contemporary
Review," April-June 1886.
Edouard Rod: Les Préraphaélites Anglais, "Gazette des Beaux-Arts,"
1887, ii 177, 399.
W. v. Seidlitz: Die englische Malerei auf der Jubiläumsausstellung zu
Manchester im Sommer, 1887, "Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft," 1888,
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P. T. Forsyth: Religion in Recent Art. Manchester and London, 1889.
Wilhelm Weigand: Die aesthetische Bewegung in England, "Gegenwart,"
1889 (35), p. 165.
Wilhelm Weigand: Die Praeraphaeliten, in his "Essays." Munich, 1892.
Cornelius Gurlitt: Die Praeraphaeliten, eine britische Malerschule,
"Westermanns Monatshefte," April-June, 1892.
W. Holman Hunt: Pre-Rafaelitism and Pre-Rafaelite Brotherhood. London,
1905.
Noël Paton:
J. M. Gray: Sir Noël Paton, "Art Journal," 1881, p. 78.
Holman Hunt:
F. G. Stephens: W. Holman Hunt, "Portfolio," 1871, p. 33.
F. G. Stephens: Holman Hunt's "The Triumph of the Innocents,"
"Portfolio," 1885, p. 80.
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