Studio: international art (39.1907)

Old Austro-Hungarian Peasant Ftirniture

XIV. Execution is style in painting.—XX. An though exact in proportion, remains inert. —
even mediocre painter who paints his own period CCXCVI. Rubens has often been of harm to the
will be more interesting to futurity than one who, Flemish School; while Van Eyck has never been
with more talent, has only painted times which he anything but its benefactor."
has never seen.—XXXVII. A picture cannot be Fernand Khnopff.

judged justly until ten years after its execution.—

XLII. Painters who depict their own time become LD AUSTRO - HUNGARIAN

historians.—XLVII. Woe to the painter who re- | | PEASANT FURNITURE. BY
ceives approbation only from women !—L. We can \ F A. S. LEVETUS.
judge an artist's sensibility from a flower that he ^""—^^

has painted.—LXIII. In the art of painting one To the student of the evolution of native art
must first of all be a painter; the thinker comes Austria-Hungary, with its diversity of races, offers
afterwards.—LXXIII. A picture should not, as is exceptional opportunities. In spite of the fact that
commonly said, stand out from its frame; the very machinery is now more and more employed to do
opposite should be said. — XC. Time beautifies with feverish haste that which was formerly done
sound painting and destroys bad.—XCI. Bad paint- slowly and thoroughly, there still remains a wide
ing cracks in stars; good painting becomes like fine field of exploration in the homes of the peasants,
crackle china.—CXV. To paint modern costume The builders and carpenters in remote villages
does not constitute a modernist. The artist continue to build and decorate these homes as
attracted by modernity must above all be impreg- their forbears did in the past, and if occasionally
nated with a modern feeling.—CXXIV. There they pay a visit to the towns and view with eyes of
should be quinquennial exhibitions in which each wonder the changes that are taking place, they
artist should only be permitted to exhibit one return to their homes content to jog along as before
single figure that said nothing.—CXXVII. By with a modest measure of comfort, and without
looking at the palette of a painter, we may know with any eagerness to emulate the townsmen,
whom we have to reckon.—CXLVI. A fine picture There is a growing desire in Austria-Hungary to
of which one admires the effect at a
distance should equally support closer
scrutiny.—CCIV. The execution of a
fine painting is agreeable to the touch.
—CCV. A true painter is always a
thinker.—CCVIII. Certain Dutch mas-
ters seem to have painted with precious
stones ground into powder.—CCXLVII.
To have a master's picture retouched is
a crime that ought to be severely punished
by law.—CCLII. Nothing is pardoned
in a single figure picture ; many things
are excused in a picture with several
figures.—CCLVI. Painting is not done
for exhibitions: refined work is smothered
at the Salon; "shouters" come off better.
—CCLXVII. The sincere approbation
of his brother-artists is the most flattering
reward a painter can have.—CCLXVill.
Nothing can equal the happiness felt by
a painter when, after a day's labour, he
is satisfied with the work accomplished ;
but in the contrary case what despair
is his!—CCXC1V. The Flemings and
the Dutch are the first painters in the
world.—CCXCV. An arm by Rem-
brandt, though perhaps too short, is yet fig. i.-peasant furniture from upper Austria and

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alive ; an arm by the pioficient in theory, (Museum fiir Volkskpnde, Vienna, ana other Museums)

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