Part 16 (1/2)
Rocco, is reat clustered groups sculptured in light and shade filling with an the architectural spaces at his disposal: a far richer andresult to me than the flat and unprofitable stuff which of late years has been called ”decoration”
Above all, I thoroughly disbelieve in the cant ofthe flatness of a wall I see no merit in it whatever Let them be massive as sculpture, but let every quality of value and colour lend them depth and vitality, and I am sure the hall or room will be richer and nobler as a result
_C W Furse_
CLxxxIV
People usually declare that landscape is an easy matter I think it a very difficult one For whenever you wish to produce a landscape, it is necessary to carry about the details, and work them out in the mind for some days before the brush may be applied Just as in coht over the theme; and until this is resolved, you are in the thrall of bonds and gyves But when inspiration comes, you break loose and are free
_A Chinese Painter_ (about 1310 AD)
CLxxxV
One word: there are _tendencies_, and it is these which are meant by _schools_ Landscape, above all, cannot be considered from the point of view of a school Of all artists the landscape painter is the one who is in most direct communion with nature, with nature's very soul
_Paul Huet_
CLxxxVI
Froh-minded arden with hills and strea the stones What a delight does one derive fro in his leisurely occupation in a sequestered nook, or of a wood a tree in a secluded spot, or of h impatient to enjoy a life amidst the luxuries of nature,in such pleasures To meet this want artists have endeavoured to represent landscapes so that peopleout of their houses In this light, painting affords pleasures of a nobler sort by re nature
_Kuo Hsi_ (Chinese, eleventh century AD)
LANDSCAPE
CLxxxVII
Landscape is a big thing, and should be viewed frorasp the scheures of men and women are small matters, and may be spread out on the hand or on a table for exalance Those who study flower-painting take a single stalk and put it into a deep hole, and then exa it fro take a stalk of baht project its shadow on to a piece of white silk on a wall; the true forht out It is the sa The artist must place himself in communion with his hills and streams, and the secret of the scenery will be solved
Hills without clouds look bare; without water they are wanting in fascination; without paths they are wanting in life; without trees they are dead; without depth-distance they are shalloithout level-distance they are near; and without height-distance they are low
_Kuo Hsi_ (Chinese, eleventh century AD)
CLxxxVIII
I have brushed up e” into a pretty look, and my ”Heath” is almost safe, but Ivisit from M---- alone; but my pictures do not come into his rules or whims of the art, and he said I had ”lost my way” I told him that I had ”perhaps other notions of art than picture ads to be avoided_, connoisseurs looked on thes to be _imitated_; and that, too, with such a deference and hu to a total prostration of ; as must serve only to fill the world with abortions” But he was very agreeable, and I endured the visit, I trust, without the usual courtesies of life being violated
What a sad thing it is that this lovely art is so wrested to its own destruction! Used only to blind our eyes, and to prevent us fro the sun shi+ne, the fields blooe rustle; while old--black--rubbed out and dirty canvases take the place of God's oorks I long to see you I love to cope with you, like Jaques, in my ”sullen moods,” for I am not fit for the present world of art Lady Morley was here yesterday On seeing the ”House,”