The appreciation of pictures; a handbook by Sturgis Russell 1836-1909

Author:Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Painting
Publisher: New York, The Baker & Taylor co
Published: 1905-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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mi&mt npm bis gold btooade. It is tlia^ in looking ^ your EmoLbrandt fHnk mill find that the least attractiire j^eaii of oolonr in the pictaie are in thtiie patches whiidi are meant to be bine c^ red. The silk sash of vivid hue girded around the buff ooat will be a good deal less attractive than the buff ooat itself, especially to the eye of the enthusiastic lover of colour.

Rembrandt, then, is essentially the artist of light and shade of the most attractive kind; that is to say, of the light and shade which is based upon the effects of nature. If he prefers those effects as seen in the changing lights on a piece of yellow leather of soft surface, and enjoys the bringing of these into extraordinary prominence and relative importance by their relief upon an almost wholly dark backgroimd, it is still as a yellow piece of light and shade and not as a piece of mere blackening and

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