Modern French Masters

Modern French Masters

The source of art is the fountain of Love: the winged spirits, Painting, Sculpture, and Poetry, spring from it hand in hand. With affectionate leave-takings and cries of joy at their liberation, they soar into space, the angel of Music out-winging the rest because of more lambent fibre, but she is no more vital nor pulsating than her sisters. Genius is Love, Talent is the sure perception of essentials combined with the power of expression. Talent, coupled with genius, produces the Love-Child that men call a Masterpiece. The love-child in Art is the most perfect of all human creations, whether the artist lover be conventional or academic, or rebellious against form and schools, or capricious and eccentric. Emerson said: Write above your door the word, Whim. This, Alfred Stevens, Besnard, Dgas, and the great sculptor{viii} Carries would have applauded, and above allWhistler! Whether the lover be brutal and aggressive (Courbet and at times Besnard), shy and distinguished (Puvis de Chavannes), dreamy and caressing (Corot and Cazin), alert and pulsating (Sargent, Zorn), retiring and retrospective (Millet-Lobre), nobly dominating (like Rodin, who says il faut planer)or varied in impulseone might say capriciouslike Whistler, Bastien Lepage and Monticelithe obsession of the motif will infallibly assert itself in convincing form, the vital impulse of loyal desire will in every case assume masterly shape, and if sequent be great. And as all the world loves a lover, so all the world sooner or later will love the lovers work. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 58279
Author: Van Vorst, Marie
Release Date: Nov 13, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English