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Identifier: higherlifeinarts1908lafa (find matches)
Title: The higher life in art; a series of lectures on the Barbizon school of France, inaugurating the Scammon course at the Art Institute of Chicago
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: La Farge, John, 1835-1910
Subjects: Barbizon school Landscape painting, French Landscape painting, French Landscape painters
Publisher: New York : The McClure Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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reverse. I know of no artist with whose mood onemust happen to fall in so distinctly as with his. Ofcourse there is the succession or continuation, of ad-mirable colour and proud composition, but the pictureis the expression of the mood; and the dramatic formwhich he liked and which had the shape of his time is somuch the realisation of this personal impression thatone does not always follow him. Already had begun—and the siege had been laid longago by the pupils of the great Raphael, continuedthrough the majestic art of a few of the great Frenchmasters by the schools and the literary teaching of theeighteenth century—already had been laid out the pro-gramme of what we have to-day, so that we can hardlybreak away from it, we can hardly think without it—therepresentation of the picture as a set scene, as a thingin the theatre, as a thing carefully composed in the waythat it will look best, in which the light will fall in acertain way on the main actor, and in a less important 16
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