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
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ve a decorative purpose; we can easily imaginethat a large dining-room, in some handsome restaurant or hotel, would be much enlivened bypanels filled with graceful figures such as this, of young men and maidens: Much too good For human natures food engaged in ofiiering to the guests the different raw materials of the biU-of-fare. AVe think weshould much prefer such a decoration to the well-worn classic nyrai)hs, goddesses, or geniiwho are usually employed for this purpose. Frankly acknowledged as a compromise be-tween fact and fancy, the artist might successfully stave off the troublesome questions of aGradgrind who should insist on asking, what this buxom maiden is doing all alone on thisbarren shore; whether this boat, stranded high and dry on the bank, is hers; and whether in ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. tMs matter-of-fact, prosaic world of ours, it is to be looked upon as quite in the naturalcourse of things that fish should be offered us in this summary way by pretty girls, as we
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THE FISHERMAIDEN.FROM THE PICTURE BY HERMANN KAULBACH. take our morning-stroll on the beach, for all the world as if the cold, clammy, slippery thingswere fresh-cut roses! And, indeed, there is a merry twinkle in Piscatorias eye as if she werelaughing to herself at Gradgrinds dulness! 222 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME Marc Louis Benjajiiis^ Vautier, tlie painter of At Churcli, one of tlie most widelypoijular, as a designer, of tlie school whicli Knau.s, Defregger, Schmid, and others have doneso much to establish in the public favor, was born in 1829 at Morges, a brisk commercialtown in the Canton Vaiid, on the northern side of the Lake of Geneva, not far from Lausanne.He was educated at Geneva, and on leaving school he worked for two years as a painter ofenamels for the jewellers; but in 1849 he took up the study of painting under a local artistLugardon. Feeling the need of better instruction, he went in 1850 to Diisseldorf, then, out-side of Paris, the principal art-school in Europe, w

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