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Title: Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Phythian, John Ernest, 1858-
Subjects: Painting Painting
Publisher: London, G. Richards
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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thereason. The Club, as we shall see later, has come to standchiefly for a certain phase of realism. Mr. Sargent and Mr.Wilson Steer have been dominating personalities in it.Some who used to be members have gone to the Academy.Other new groups have been formed. The Scotchmen havegone their own decorative way. The word decorative is not wholly appropriate to describethis art. If we were allowed to speak of visible harmonyas music we should call the art musical. Mr. John Laverysportraits, for instance, are Harmonies, in the Whistleriansense. At times he gives them titles that simply drawattention to their colour-schemes. So with the landscapepainters. They do not, like most of their English brethren,think chiefly of the facts, and try to represent them truth-fully, even though, unable to do everything at once, theymust needs make a selection. Mr. Hornel is only an ex-treme instance, with his children in the woodlands, of theregarding of facts as mere raw material for beautiful designs.
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SPRING JOHN LAVERY PAINTING IN GREAT BRITAIN 365 We can think of these painters as redyeing natural objectsin order to make them suit their designs. This impression isproduced particularly by the work of Mr. James Paterson.If we say that he has seen what he has painted, we mustunderstand a subtle selection of certain features, and eventhen we more than suspect an inward vision also. Of coursethis enters into all art; but here, as with Turner, it assertsitself strongly. Mr. D. Y. Cameron, etcher as well as painter,makes a similar use of colour, though with more reserve.Mr. T. Millie Dow and Mr. Mouat Loudan may be namedin the same connexion. Sir James Guthrie was a pupil of John Pettie, and after-wards studied in Paris. He is one of the leaders of theschool, and is now President of the Eoyal Scottish Academy.Strength and fine characterisation are conspicuous in hisportraits and subject-pictures, while with something more ofnaturalism he still maintains the unity of decorative effect.Ar

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