 It may appear strange, perhaps, to hear this sense of the rule disputed ; but it must be considered, that, if the excellency of a painter consisted only in this kind of imitation, painting must lose its rank, and be no longer considered as a liberal art,...  Select British Classics - Page 891803Full view - About this book
 | English authors - 1876 - 504 pages
...imitation, painting must lose its rank, and be no longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to poetry, this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the...imagination? To this power the painter of genius directs his aim; in this sense he studies nature, and often arrives at his end, even by being unnatural in... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1879 - 414 pages
...rank, and be no longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to Poetry, this imitation being nearly mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always...has the art to claim kindred with poetry but by its power over the imagination ? To this power the painter of genius directs him ; in this sense he studies... | |
 | John Burnet - 1880 - 116 pages
...imitation, painting must lose its rank, and be no longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to poetry, this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the...pretence has the art to claim kindred with poetry, but its powers over the imagination ? To this power the painter of genius directs his aim ; in this sense... | |
 | Frederick Sanders Pulling - 1880 - 166 pages
...does to Narration. Art is in fact the idealisation of Nature. The labour of the realistic painter is " merely mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always sure to succeed best." Art does not consist in painting a cat or a fiddle so finely, that, as the phrase is, ' It looks as... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1885 - 654 pages
...rank, and be no longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to Poetry, this imitation being nearly mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always...has the art to claim kindred with poetry but by its power over the imagination ? To this power the painter of genius directs him ; in this sense he studies... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 332 pages
...imitation, Painting must lose its rank, and be no longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to Poetry : this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the...has the Art to claim kindred with Poetry, but by its power over the imagination 1 To this power the Painter of genius directs his aim ; in this sense he... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1887 - 330 pages
...imitation, Painting must lose its rank, and be no longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to Poetry : this imitation being merely mechanical, in which the...has the Art to claim kindred with Poetry, but by its power over the imagination t To this power the Painter of genius directs his aim ; in this sense he... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1887 - 664 pages
...rank, and be no longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to Poetry, this imitation being nearly mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always...has the art to claim kindred with poetry but by its power over the imagination ? To this power the painter of genius directs him ; in this sense he studies... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1889 - 638 pages
...rank, and be no longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to Poetry, this imitation being nearly mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always...has the art to claim kindred with poetry but by its power over the imagination 1 To this power the painter of genius directs him ; in this sense he studies... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 476 pages
...rank, and be no longer considered as a liberal art, and sister to Poetry, this imitation being nearly mechanical, in which the slowest intellect is always...has the art to claim kindred with poetry but by its power over the imagination ? To this power the painter of genius directs him ; in this sense he studies... | |
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