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Title: Art and criticism : monographs and studies
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Child, Theodore
Subjects: Art criticism
Publisher: Harper
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Metropolitan New York Library Council - METRO

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ant or neglectful of values; they observedthem certainly, but perhaps less consciously, less scientifically,and less curiously than the modern. Thus, it will be seen, the Impressionist movement is full ofinterest, and the contemporary French artists, as their worksshow, have not disdained to profit by all that was good anduseful in the teachings of the Impressionists, but these teach-ings have consisted more in the tendencies and efforts than inthe actual achievements of the group. The source of excel-lence in art lies not so much in the study of the processes orof the methods of schools as in the study of Nature herself;and excellence of the highest kind is within the reach only ofprivileged temperaments, which spring into existence myste-riously and irresistibly, masters by innate gifts and aptitudes,and in spite of schools and theories. If you proclaim ClaudeMonet and Renoir to be masters in the art of painting, youmust have thrown overboard forever Velasquez, Rembrandt,and Titian.
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