Word: ideale
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...shadow against a twilight sky, suggesting peasant toil and suffering. Between these we must decide. We want neither a collection, a conglomeration of geology and botany, nor a vague, indefinite suggestion of a possible truth; it is something between the two which is the true representation of our ideal...
...real life, is pleasing when we first look at it, because of the story which it tells, but it always tells the same story; it can tell but one story because of the care which has been taken to represent this one idea truthfully. A picture fulfilling our ideal gives the suggestion of nature with just sufficient accuracy to enable the outsider to put his own characters in the place of those on the canvas, so that the picture is a new story for every fresh individualism that sees...
First of all American illustrators stands Abbey. His resources are inexhaustible. Whenever he is called on to interpret a work he can find the idea in his own mind, and yet he invariably realizes the ideal of the author. He always copies from a true model. If he wants to draw an old-fashioned spinet he does not paint a cut down Steinway Grand, but he gets the real article without any regard to trouble or expense. One great reason of his success is his innate personal refinement...
...younger men the most prominent is Dana Gibson. His methods are rather peculiar but his effects are always true. F. S. Church is one of the most original of American artists. His picture, "The Viking's Daughter," is an ideal conception of a beautiful woman. It is a picture of a typical American woman...
...Benjamin Trueblood, of the Friend's Meeting House of Boston, addressed the Christian Association last evening. He described a high ideal of Christian life in our colleges, and discussed the problem of attaining this ideal...