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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s—might sleep in, comfortably tucked in under a homespun plaidcounterpane, no better than would be found in any one of the poor houses that nestle at thefoot of the hill on whose side the great convent of Saint Francis suns itself at ease. In our own time we do not remember any painter who has been so audacious as to dresshis personages in a gown with a plaid pattern, except Leibl and James Tissot. Tissot liasdone this in a picture representing two ladies in high-life, and Leibl has done it, here, in hispicture of peasants in church. This, of course, might be an accident, and ordinarily wouldindicate nothing deeper in the way of resemblance between the two artists. But it seems toTis that there is something deeper, a more intimate relation, however it has come about, 2X6 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. between the art of the French painter who has been devoted all his life to the depicting themanners and experiences of the npper classes—for, even his Margaret is a lady, albeit of the
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THE HUNTER. FROM THE PICTURE BY WILHELM LEIBL. middle-class, and the art of the German, who, born a laborer, has painted little beside from the life of the laboring-people. Each of them turns his back peremptorily on the ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 237 Academic teaching, and insists on conceiving tlie scene lie has to paint as nearly as possible ■as it would have looked in reality; not, indeed, attempting to deceive the eye by any tricksof imitation of stuff, or materials, or by feats oi joerspective, but aiming at deeper things:truth of human characterization, truth of gesture, and action. In each artist, too, is the sameindifference to beauty, and it must be admitted to grace, as well. It is long since we sawTissots lady in the plaid gown, but we remember her tormented attitude as she sat upon thegrass, and the multitudinous folds of her tempestuous i^etticoat; there was a plenty ofveracity and energy in the picture, but there was little to attract the lover of prettiness.But as

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