Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 183 between sky, earth, and things which make the charm of Diezs jpictures, are peifectly trans-latable by the jDhotograph; they escape to a certain degree the skill of the engTaver. Inlooking over a considerable collection of photographs after Diez the impression made by hispictures was renewed, that his love of painting is greater than his care for the detail of his
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THE MARAUDERS FROM THE PAINTING BY WILHELM DIEZ, subject; he strives to express it, in spirit, as a whole; to give the sentiment of the scene,and to make the details rather felt than perceived. This may not be very clearly expressed;what we would like to convey may perhaps be better shown by a comparison. Thus, inMakarts pictures, we have the artist working with the same aim; he wishes us to forget thedetails and to see the picture as a whole. But, as Makart cannot, or what is the same inresult, will not, draw any single thing so that it can be looked at and enjoyed for itself; as he 184 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. cannot draw—or never does draw —a liand, or a foot, or a face, we perversely look for thesetilings and as we are continually disappointed, we end by refusing to take the Avhole for apart, particularly as we find that truth of action and truth of attitude are no easier to findthan truth in the lesser details. Now Diez, though he sinks, or never obtrudes, the details ofh

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