Word: artistical
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...worth and value of identity. The voice, face, manner, bearing, and accent of others are all easy of imitation; but it is when the higher qualities belonging to an individuality have to be reproduced that the imitator's difficulty begins and his weakness is exposed. With the true artist the internal force is the first requisite,- the external appearance being merely the medium through which this is made known to others...
...practical method by which the students may be enabled to make use of the offer which has been made. Inasmuch as there seems to be not the best of chances that Mr. Irving will address the students, this other opportunity for Harvard to come into touch with the great artist will be more eagerly taken...
...dead leaf with a hole in it appears more decayed than one that is entire, so some insects go to the extent of having what gives the impression of a hole upon the surface of their bodies. In one stage of development this hole is represented, as an artist would represent it on canvas, by a white spot, but in a more advanced stage, the spot becomes actually transparent...
...because it was Shakespeare. With this view no one can agree who reads his plays without prejudice. In them we find no trace of preaching or moralizing, but every character is allowed to speak for itself, without preference given or comment made. It is the work of a great artist, to whom life in all its manifold phases strongly appealed, and who was thus able to reproduce it with all the delightful charm of reality...
Composition, Mr. Smith said, is the most expressive and pleasing arrangement upon canvas of the details of a picture. This is the most important art in painting, and fixes the talent of the artist. There is but one law which governs the whole subject of composition, and that is the law of relation of the greater and lesser masses in a picture. The eye is first attracted by the greatest contrast, the greatest dark against the greatest light or vice versa, and then seeks another contrast more moderate in tone, and so on until the story of the painting...