Identifier: painterspictures00neuh (find matches)
Title: Painters, pictures and the people
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Neuhaus, Eugen, 1879-1963
Subjects: Painting Art
Publisher: San Francisco : Philopolis press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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m tohis easel pictures that they at once assume aquality of their own. Of a totally different type,Sargents well-known Nubian girl compelledgreat interest, not to be compared to the im-pressionistic technical methods of a painting ofthe Reid type, but most interesting from a verykeen quality of rhythmic outline, which ranspirally through the picture from top to bottom.It is a wonderful accomplishment, this Nubiangirl, in spite of its naturally leathery colour. Asin Reids seated figure, one had here again thesatisfaction that the artist went beyond themodel in emphasizing certain suggested quali-ties which, accentuated, became the real noteof interest in the picture. Essentially, the trouble nowadays with somany painters of the nude is that they areutterly unable to free themselves from the influ-ence of the individual before them. It is here,again, as with the landscape painter of immatureattitude. He copies directly, clinging desper-ately to the belief that his only salvation lies in
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C ARM EL COAST ri.ATK XXIX From the Oil Painting byWilliam Ritsi hel, n. a. THE NUDE IN ART 173 the faithfulness of his adherence to the fact.In a nude of similar conception, this becomesdoubly painful because the indelicate exposureof a more or less defective individual thusbrought about adds to the discomfort of theobserver, who is seldom rewarded for his pa-tience by other artistic qualities in the picture.The Greek artist did not give us this personalintroduction to the model. He does not revealthe privacy of physical characteristics of an in-dividual model. It was partly this physicalnessin painting which moved the Puritan forefathersto turn against art; unable to resist, in theircurious lack of self-control, they condemned allart and poured out the child with the bath. Thesuggestion of immorality which there is in artfor many people is related to the incompetencyof the professional painters who are unable torise above mere physical suggestion. There issomething repulsive about t

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