The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton. Volume II

The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton. Volume II

The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton. Volume IIA wedding gift to H.R.H. The Prince of...
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The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton. Volume II

The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton. Volume II

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The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton. Volume II

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Author: Barrington, Russell
Format: eBook
Language: English

The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton. Volume II

A wedding gift to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, who graciously gave permission for the painting to be reproduced in this book. It was in 1860 that I first knew Leighton. We met over affairs connected with the Artist Rifle Corps at Burlington House, and afterwards at the studios of various artists, where discussions took place regarding the formation and means of conduct of the Corps. On several occasions I walked home with Leighton to his house in Orme Square. I don't think I have ever known a man who grew more steadily than Leighton did. The effort of his artistic life was to remove the effects of a certain mannerism and over-education in his early artistic life. His knowledge was wonderful, his powers of design without immediate consultation with Nature were phenomenal; he feared the facility in himself and went always to Nature, that out of her manifold gifts he should be inspired directly by them. And this constant study had its drawbacks as well as its merits, because in one sense it stood in the way of the development of an abstract power of invention. If ever an artist made the most of his conscious abilities, Leighton did. His character was so curiously simple on the one hand, and so complicated on the other, that a balance between a very emotional and extremely accurate temperament had to be found, and it was found. How far a certain charm of spontaneity was obscured a little, perhaps by erudition and a sort of Aristotelian preciseness, it is not for me to say. There is in all things a balance which, when once obtained, reduces the weight in [2]both scales. But we must take a life as it has been made by circumstances, by early training and after influences; and probably most men who are in earnest,and Leighton was pre-eminently in earnest,find their proper issue finally. That the best of Leighton's work will live, I am convinced; that it will hold its own when a great deal of other work praised, admired, even worshipped during the life of his contemporaries shall be dead, I feel quite assured; and one may very justly be askedWhy? The simple answer is that it was thorough, definite, sincere, accomplished. Leighton never put out his hand towards the limbo of vulgarity or fashion. Like Virgil, like Mendelssohn, Leighton was a stylist, and his life's work showed a perfection of attainment upon the lines which he drew out for his progress almost to my thinking unrivalled in the work of any of his contemporaries. Here and there he struck a deep note of poetry, here and there he was like a Greek for his simplicity, here and there his work shows the luxury of the Venetians, the restraint of the Florentines, but never perhaps the majesty of M. Angelo or the strong charm of Raphael. His art was eclectic; still it was Leighton, and could have been done only as the result of great natural gifts, assiduous study, force of character, and, withal, independence of vision. His love of beauty was his own personal love, not learnt, hardly perhaps inherited, but spontaneous and lasting. This devotion to beauty may have sometimes led his emotions away from character, which sometimes is very nearly ugly as well as very nearly allied to the highest beauty, which Bacon says has always something of strangeness in it. The pursuit of beauty, per se, may be purchased at the expense of character. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 35935
Author: Barrington, Russell
Release Date: May 20, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

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