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The international Studio (September, 1908)
DOI Artikel:Cary, Elisabeth Luther: Four American painters represented in the Metropolitan Museum
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28255#0431
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Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art By Permission
THE SPANISH GIRL BY WASHINGTON ALLSTON
fumbling one and experimental is to be expected, not
only from the painter’s lack of academic drill, but
from the character of the emotion he wished to
convey. Mr. Cox has pointed out that Rembrandt
the dreamer was never so sure of himself as Rem-
brandt the observer, the trained painter, and the
reason is not far to seek. It is simply that to ex-
press the emotional uncertainty of dream one is
obliged to forego an explanatory and precise
method. Excess of finish is fatal to the mood in
which one sees vision, and any method that sug-
gests the intention and leaves ample room for the
play of imagination is appropriate for the expres-
sion of this mood. Fuller seems to have had an
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Property of the Metropolitan Museum of Art By Permission
THE SPANISH GIRL BY WASHINGTON ALLSTON
fumbling one and experimental is to be expected, not
only from the painter’s lack of academic drill, but
from the character of the emotion he wished to
convey. Mr. Cox has pointed out that Rembrandt
the dreamer was never so sure of himself as Rem-
brandt the observer, the trained painter, and the
reason is not far to seek. It is simply that to ex-
press the emotional uncertainty of dream one is
obliged to forego an explanatory and precise
method. Excess of finish is fatal to the mood in
which one sees vision, and any method that sug-
gests the intention and leaves ample room for the
play of imagination is appropriate for the expres-
sion of this mood. Fuller seems to have had an
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