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Famous Paintings: Selected From the World's Great Galleries and Reproduced in Colour (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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The old artists, then, were plain and popular in the more fundamental or (if you will) lower parts of their personality. But the typical modern artist sets out to be a separate and fantastic sort of creature, who feeds and feels in a strange manner of his own. Compare Velazquez with Whistler; compare Shakespeare with Shaw; compare even Addison with Stevenson. Whistler professed to be a butterfly, feast ing on strange flowers and following incalculable flights; Stevenson was called by many of his friends an elf; and though this did not mean that he was inhumane, it did mean that he was in a manner dis embodied. Bernard Shaw is certainly a fairy: and an Irish fairy, which is worse. Shakespeare, like the Shepherd in Io/aizt/ze, was only a fairy down to the waist. He would undoubtedly, to quote the same work of art, have left his legs kicking behind if he had tried to get through the keyhole. Ben Jonson drinking ale was exactly like Ben Bolt drinking ale; though it might only move Ben Bolt to confused memories of Alice, and might inspire Ben Jonson to offer his lady the disinterested advice that she should drink only with her eyes. But faddists and fairies wish to draw their very sustenance differently; tee totalers live on lemonade and elves upon dew, which I should think would be more sustaining.
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The old artists, then, were plain and popular in the more fundamental or (if you will) lower parts of their personality. But the typical modern artist sets out to be a separate and fantastic sort of creature, who feeds and feels in a strange manner of his own. Compare Velazquez with Whistler; compare Shakespeare with Shaw; compare even Addison with Stevenson. Whistler professed to be a butterfly, feast ing on strange flowers and following incalculable flights; Stevenson was called by many of his friends an elf; and though this did not mean that he was inhumane, it did mean that he was in a manner dis embodied. Bernard Shaw is certainly a fairy: and an Irish fairy, which is worse. Shakespeare, like the Shepherd in Io/aizt/ze, was only a fairy down to the waist. He would undoubtedly, to quote the same work of art, have left his legs kicking behind if he had tried to get through the keyhole. Ben Jonson drinking ale was exactly like Ben Bolt drinking ale; though it might only move Ben Bolt to confused memories of Alice, and might inspire Ben Jonson to offer his lady the disinterested advice that she should drink only with her eyes. But faddists and fairies wish to draw their very sustenance differently; tee totalers live on lemonade and elves upon dew, which I should think would be more sustaining.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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