Word: offing
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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It was at this time that Ruskin came forward with his first volume "in defence of the new landscape art in general, and of the art of Turner in particular." Ruskin saw that "what Turner sought was the ideal truth of nature, that he portrayed Nature in her 'supreme moments...
The affirmation is untrue that according to Ruskin, perfection of art consists in exact imitation of nature. In the opening of "Modern Painters" he defines great art as that which conveys to the mind the greatest number of the greatest ideas, and he distinctly asserts later that there is a...
An essential feature of Ruskin's philosophy of art is the affirmation of the influence upon art of moral conditions and the reaction of art itself on moral character. That moral conditions influence the arts is a proposition little doubted now. That the duty of the fine arts is to...
Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Meeting at University 5, 4 p. m.
**Geological Conference. Opening meeting. Address by Professor Shaler. Paper: The Eighth International Geological Congress at Paris. Professor Wolff. Rotch Building, 8 p. m. Students in courses of Geology, Geography, Mining and Mineralogy, are especially invited.