 | William Hazlitt - English essays - 1903 - 538 pages
...For this reason I shall beg leave to lay before you a few thoughts on the subject ; to throw out some hints that may lead your minds to an opinion (which I take to be the true one) that Painting is not only not to be considered as an imitation operating by deception, but... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1905 - 468 pages
...banks of the Ohio or from New Holland.' In opposition to the sentiment here expressed that ' Painting is and ought to be, in many points of view and strictly speaking1, no imitation at all of external nature,' it is emphatically said in another place : ' Nature... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - Philology, Modern - 1924 - 1016 pages
...but such a pleasure does not belong to the higher provinces of art. Painting, like the other arts, is not only to be considered as an imitation, operating by deception, but. . . .it is, and ought to be, in many points of view, and strictly speaking, no imitation at all of... | |
 | Francisco Mirabent - Aesthetics - 1927 - 280 pages
...mati(1) L. c., X, pág. 176. (2) L. c., VI, págs. 94-95, y XII, pág. 228. (3) L. c., XIII, pág. 234: «...that painting is not only to be considered as...view, and strictly speaking, no imitation at all of externa! nature». ees capaces de conmover al espíritu educado en el gusto del arte. Lo que interesa,... | |
 | Paul-Gabriel Boucé - English literature - 1993 - 212 pages
...deemed the proper province of the tailor. In Discourse XIII (1786) Reynolds had reaffirmed that art "is, and ought to be, in many points of view, and...removed from the vulgar idea of imitation, as the refmed civilized state in which we live, is removed from a gross state of nature." Reynolds's theory... | |
 | Claude Julien Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 332 pages
...self-evident to Reynolds, who had affirmed in Discourse XIH ( 1 786) that art 'is, and ought to he, in many points of view, and strictly speaking, no...from the vulgar idea of imitation, as the refined civilised state in which we live, is removed from a gross state of nature.'ni3 The 'decent drapery',... | |
 | Deborah Esch - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 180 pages
...particular in order to construct the general truth of nature, so much so that "painting is not only not to be considered as an imitation, operating by deception,...speaking, no imitation at all of external nature." Sir Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Art, ed. Robert R. Wark (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975),... | |
 | 1839 - 348 pages
...this reason I shall beg leave to lay before you a few thoughts on this subject ; to throw out some hints that may lead your minds to an opinion (which...not only to be considered as an imitation, operating 190 by deception, but that it is, and ought to be, in many points of view, and strictly speaking, no... | |
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Painting is not only to be considered as an imitation, operating by deception, but that it is, and ought to be, in many points of view, and strictly speaking, no imitation at all of external nature. Perhaps it ought to be as far removed from the vulgar... 
