Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Details in painting and the general truth

...a  man  who attended   to   general   character   would   in   five minutes produce a more faithful representation of a tree, than the unfortunate mechanist in as many years,  is  thus  perfectly  true  and  well founded; but  this  is  not because details are undesirable, but because they are best given by  swift execution,  and  because,  individually,  they  cannot  be given to all.

(Modern Painters I, p. 340)

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