Identifier: howtostudypictur1910caff (find matches)
Title: How to study pictures by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918
Subjects: Monet,Claude, 1840-1926 Painting Painting
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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parrots head. So far, you observe, theartist has played upon grays. As a musician might ex-plain it, he has given several modulations of the chordof gray, including the major and minor, the augmentedand diminished. In other words, he has made a color-harmony of slightly diff*ering tones of gray; takingpleasure in observing and rendering those slight distinc-tions, and also in noting how diff*erently the light is re-flected from the diflerent surfaces,—in a sort of dull andsmothered way from the plaster on the wall; deep andlustrous from the birds wing; more softly broken upfrom the feathers on the head; sharp and pellucid fromthe glass, and with duller luster from the pan. The re-sult is, that by careful discrimination between the variousactions of light, he has given us a real appreciation ofthe textures of the diff*ei*ent objects—a refinement ofrealism in the way of painting that is far beyond therealism of Courbet. The color of the gown is that of faded rose-leaves; that (412)
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GIRL WITH A PARROT EDOUARD MANET METROPOLITAN MUSEUM, NEW YORK

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