Word: artistical
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...with the greatest favor by the students, and his coming will be impatiently awaited. And this for the simple reason that, although college men are fond of light opera and comedy, they yet have a deep respect for the better work of the stage, that work which demands fine artistic sense and a broader, nobler view of the possibilities of the theatrical art than is found in ordinary actors and actresses. There is a positive quality about all art that comes anywhere near perfection which commands respect and admiration; and the man who represents this best art, whether...
...transition in engraving from mediocre to supreme excellence has been very rapid in America. The early process, by which the draughtsman with infinite pains and difficulty reproduced upon wood the work of the painter, was soon replaced by the art of photographing directly upon the wood, and skilful artists began to take the place of the draughtsman. Three things were necessary to lift engraving from the difficult, expensive and unsatisfactory early process to that high position as an art which it has held for many years. These were, first, an artist, then an engraver, and last a magazine with taste...
...Hopkinson Smith gave the second lecture of his course last night on the subject of Out-door Sketching before an audience even larger than that of the night before. He said that every artist has his own ideas on out door work, and therefore what any one man can say must be rather his own ideas than a general treatment of the subject. Of course there are certain fixed laws of color and perspective, but as to how these may best be applied there is room for much dispute...
...question of local color is the hardest that comes to the artist. Things are not really the way they look. When we paint for example a summer scene, putting in all the rich greens and other bright colors, we get nothing approaching the true effect. Those artists who have been most successful in catching the salient points of a scene and in making it all true, use always soft colors, gray and yellow ochre. The best examples of this sort of work are the wonderful paintings of Cazin...
...light should be the same on another day, it is impossible to expect that the mood of a painter should be just the same. So he cannot see things in just the same way. To an expert a painting done on different days is a perfect almanac. So the artist must work quickly. His strokes must be accurate and he must know that they are right. Such little details as time of day, temperature, season of the year, and locality always are as plain in the work of a master as they would be to a man standing where...