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...slight movement of the surface texture, obtained by applying the pigment in short brush strokes, was to give it a certain luminosity and lightness, besides the impression of dynamic suspension, rather than static solidity...
Frenzied as it is, his work needs calm scrutiny. At longer look, the heavy brush strokes link in serpentine rhythms, the streaky, hot & cold colors merge into pulsating wholes and his portraits of people and places gain intensity...
Whether you like it or not, as Marquand points out, you will be tarred with the brush of Harvard all your life...
...would shoot at him; with these not more'n ten dudes'll kill him at the same time." Seasoned huntsmen worried about "sound-shots." Explained one: "A sound-shot is a weird guessing game invented by city men. They hear something in the brush and shoot. Then they look to see what they got. It's just as apt to be their old lady as an animal...
...imaginary landscape instead of on niggling outlines. "In Nature," he wrote, "forms are not distinguished by lines but by shape and colour." Antedating impressionism by more than a century, Cozens might be called its great-grandfather. His students and his son John Robert imitated Cozens' spontaneity and broad brush work; Turner and John Constable imitated theirs, and the French impressionists took over from there...