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Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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,c rt.^ v-1^ .%*- ^vkK.©v ^o^^\-5^ A. LAND S CAPE. FHOM THE PAINTING BY JULIUS MA) LMARJIESS NDWYDRIC ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 281 las sometimes of Calame in his choice of subjects, but lie has a far less academic way oftreating them. This will appear in his Waterfall as compared with the Swiss mastersAlpine Landscape; the wildness and desolation of the scenery depicted with great force,but without exaggeration by Marak, is in striking contrast with the tameness of Calamesconception, and the smoothness of his execution. Marak is, however, so essentially different
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Alpine Landscape. FROM THE LITHOGRAPH AFTER HIS OWN PICTURE BY ALEXANDER CALAME. from Calame in the main of his subjects, that no comparison between them can be useful.The Bohemian artist belongs distinctly to the Romantic side of Art, and chooses his themesnot as a portrait-painter of nature, but as means for expressing the wild poetry that is char-acteristic of his race and which he shares to the full. He loves to depict the gathering of thestorks in the groves of elms; the mystic stone with its Runic inscription hiding in the darkoak-wood; the moon rising softly through the firs; as we look over the portfolios of his 282 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. etchings, or the numerous engravings from his pictures, we recall the wild romantic episodesof Consuelo, that book so enchanting to boyhood, and seem to wander once more in thewoods of Rudolstadt, and to read again with delightful awe of the blasted oak, and theSchreckenstein, and the deep cavern where Zdenko and Albert led their charme

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