Talks About Art (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

William Morris Hunt

9781528450751: Talks About Art (Classic Reprint)

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Look at that figure, and draw it as if it were a plant. Remember that background and clothing have reference to the figure. You might change the whole drawing of the face, yes, draw in the face of another boy, without materially changing the character of the figure.

You talk about practice of the hand. It has less to do with drawing than you think. You draw with your brain, with your eyes. You could draw with your toes, like the man in Antwerp.

Old Poussin said, My hand trembles with old age; but I think it will yet follow the dictates of my brains!

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William Morris Hunt was the leading painter of mid-19th century Boston, Massachusetts. Hunt studied painting for five years under Thomas Couture in Paris, and painted with Jean-Fran�ois Millet and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, from whom he learned the principles of the Barbizon style of painting. Hunt established art schools at Newport, Rhode Island, Brattleboro, Vermont, and at Boston, and gained a very popular reputation as a portrait painter.

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