Identifier: ladieshomejourna65janwyet (find matches)
Title: The Ladies' home journal
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945
Subjects: Women's periodicals Janice Bluestein Longone Culinary Archive
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.)
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cter of a static world. Before beginning a picture he made innumerable studies in black and white and in color, and when he worked on the final canvas fie knew so exactly what he wanted to do that h painted one section after another without ever having to step back to see the general effect. When friends praised his canvases he said, They see poetry in what I have done. No, I apply my method and that is all there is to it. Yet his friends were right. There is more than method in his work. There is also a mood, a quality of feeling very unusual in modern art. For Seurat belongs to the tradition of the Egyptian carvers, of the sculptors of the Parthenon, of Piero della Francesca and Velasquez. His mood, like theirs, is impassive, unself-conscious, disdainful of specialized expression of emotion. This impersonal detachment lends his paintings a tranquillity, serene and majestic. They seem to exist at the still point of the turning world. — JOHN WALKER, \iif Curator, National Gallery of
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