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Identifier: americanpainters00shel (find matches)
Title: American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood
Year: 1879 (1870s)
Authors: Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914
Subjects: Painters Painting, American
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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gers each ; but, at the distance atwhich they were meant to be seen, they were real hands! Now, it would be very easy forme to say Yes! to your admiration of painters who are not the greatest; and it isntwhat might be called pleasant for me to combat your ideas. But, in spite of what youmay think of me, I have a firm conviction that you havent the true idea of great art!Besides, I want to tell you that you havent a right, at the age of twenty years, to pro-nounce judgment on these great artists, who may never be equaled, never can be excelled!I have disliked pictures so much that I afterward found were good, that I want to hint toyou that you may, some day, want an outlet from the opinions you now hold. The fact is,we must take, in the works of these men, what you call faults, and ask ourselves if theywere not, perhaps, qualities. - What a time has been made over Michael Angelos Moses, with his homs! Mi-chael Angelo felt that Moses must have horns ! To represent him he must have some-
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5 zw o X0 0 2 £ Q. $ WILLIAM MORRIS HUNT. gi thing more than a man with a full beard, and sou must accepi these horns jusi as vouwould a word which some poet had felt the need of, and had coined. A> Michael An-gelo was the greatest creator that ever worked in art, hadnt we better decide thai wellwait fifteen minutes before passing judgment upon him, or upon whal he did . Instead of one canvas ready to paint on, you ought to have forty, and paint for ajoke! I have a hundred and fifty in waiting, and each of you ought to have ten at least.You always have gloves to wear. You need canvases just as much. Ive just finished this little sketch, painting it in twenty minutes, \\ itli the intentionsimply of getting light in a sky. When I left it, I thought, The first person who comesin will say, Oh, trying to pamt like Corot! I wasnt trying to paint like any one :but I know that when I look at Nature I think of Millet, Corot, Delacroix, and sometimesof Daubigny. Just as if we were to write

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