This alas has all times been the too prevalent notion of what divergence of opinion existing not on the principle but on the kind of dexterity
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He seems to think of nothing but skill naturally and entire public, conclude his skill genius
The greater painter, less likely to be aware of aught else in his art than problems of rendering
It is of means of rendering, that talks to others because triumphs are hard-earned and conscious
The essential in painting, especially in figure-painting, is, we agreed, the rendering of the tactile values of the forms represented, because by this means
The great painter above all, an artist with a great sense of tactile values and great skill in rendering them.
Now this sense, though it will increase as the man is revealed to himself, is something which the great painter
Possesses at the start of all, aware of possessing it's conscious effort is given to the means of rendering.
Thus in his battle-pieces, instead of adequate action of any sort, we get the feeling of witnessing a show of stuffed figures whose mechanical movements
Noah’s arks, are used by him with scarcely an attempt at disguise, to serve his scheme of mathematically converging lines. In his zeal he forgot loved his horses
Accordingly he composed pictures in which he contrived to get as many lines as possible leading the eye inward. Prostrate horses, dead or dying cavaliers, broken lances, ploughed fields
Uccello had a sense of tactile values and a feeling for colour, but in so far as he used these gifts at all, it was to illustrate scientific problems
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As these were the men who for a whole generation after Masaccio’s death remained their craft, forming the taste of public, and habits and aspirations to their pupils
The manliest, he presents with a sense for materially significant which makes us realise to utmost their power and dignity and spiritual significance thus gained he uses to give highest import
In sculpture Donatello had already given body to the new ideals when his brief career and the education, the awakening, of the younger artist example have been of incalculable force.
In the Renaissance, on the contrary, the figure artist had a demand made on him such as had not been made
In sculpture Donatello had already given body to the new ideals when Masaccio began his brief career, and in the education, the awakening, of the younger artist the example of the elder must have been of incalculable force
Here new interests and values prevailed of sovereign price was the power to create
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Giotto we know already, but the new conditions, demands mediæval skies been torn asunder
Giotto born again, starting where death had cut short his advance, instantly making his own
We are happily far better situated toward Fra Angelico, enough of whose works have come down to us to reveal not only his quality as an artist, but his character as a man
The general limitations of his art, and of his own skill permit. When the theme is sacred story, it is scarcely necessary to point out with what processional gravity, with what hieratic dignity.
A painter who, after generations of mere manufacturers of symbols, illustrations, and allegories had the power to render the material significance of the objects he painted, must, as a man
But let us look a moment at certain of his symbols in the Arena at Padua, at the “Inconstancy,” the “Injustice,” the “Avarice,” for instance. “What are the significant traits,” he seems to have asked himself in the appearance
His immediate followers so little understood the essence of his power that some thought it resided in his massive types, others in the swiftness of his line, and still others in his light colour
We are happily far better situated toward Fra Angelico, enough of whose works have come down to us to reveal not only his quality as an artist, but his character as a man.
Perfect certainty of purpose, utter devotion to his task, a sacramental earnestness in performing 24 it, are what the quantity and quality of his work together proclaim.
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