Church's Painting: The Heart of the Andes (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Louis Legrand Noble

9780366554836: Church's Painting: The Heart of the Andes (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0366554832 ISBN 13: 9780366554836

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Church's Painting: The Heart of the Andes

But how are these opening remarks pertinent to landscape-painting, or to its criticism? Evidently, some apprehension of the process of landscapemdking by the instrumentalities of the Creator, is necessary in order successfully to conduct the process of landscape painting by the feeble instrumentalities of man. And what is necessary to the painter, is in some degree to the critic, whose proper task is to reproduce and ex plain, in so far as he is able, the work of the artist, and compare it with the living landscape. A knowledge of the roughening and the smoothing of the earth, by the powers which haunt its sunless caverns, and toil and contend upon its face, is evidently essential in order to an intelligent perception of that face, as we behold it. To the artist who would truthfully picture it, cer tainly, indispensable knowledge. Without that, his work cannot have the expression and significance of the actual - cannot have that organic unity - cannot have that all-pervading life, energy, and beauty which conspire to make it a genuine creation of art, in contra distinction to the work of the mere mechanic.

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