 | 458 sider
...universal presiding idea of the art. The painters who have applied themselves more particularly to low vulgar characters, and who express with precision...the praise which we give must be as limited as its objects. The merry-making or quarrelling of the boors of Teniers, the same sort of productions of Brouwer... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie - 1865 - 758 sider
...chap, i.— ED. though none enter into competition with this universal presiding idea of the art.1 The painters who have applied themselves more particularly...confined subjects, the praise which we give must be as confined as its object. The merrymakings or quarrellings of the boors of Teniers, the same sort of... | |
 | 1880 - 402 sider
...exhibited by vulgar minds (such as we see in After speaking of the grand historical style, he proceeds : the works of Hogarth), deserve great praise; but as their genius has been employed in low and confined subjects, the praise which we give must be as limited as its object. The merry-making... | |
 | 1926 - 536 sider
...passion as they are exhibited by vulgar minds (such as we see in the works of Hogarth) deserve just praise; but as their genius has been employed on low...praise which we give must be as limited as its object." Sir Joshua went on to dilate upon the paramount importance of a close study of the Italian Masters;... | |
 | Lewis Worthington Smith, James Eames Thomas - 1901 - 436 sider
...they are exhibited by vulgar minds. This we see in the works of Hogarth. They deserve great praise. Their genius has been employed on low and confined subjects. The praise that we give must then be as limited as its object. The merry-making or quarreling of the boors of... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1906 - 354 sider
...competition with this universal presiding idea of the art" [this by-the-by from " The President"]. " The painters who have applied themselves more particularly...praise which we give must be as limited as its object." How true and how important! But also how exasperating. We know that Reynolds was, and alone was, qualified... | |
 | Robert L. Patten - 1992 - 540 sider
...they are exhibited by vulgar minds, (such as we see in the works of Hogarth,)" Reynolds declared that "as their genius has been employed on low and confined...the praise which we give must be as limited as its object."2 Thus when an intaglio artist designed and executed an original print the result was vulgar,... | |
 | Brandon Taylor - 1999 - 346 sider
...details of every kind', he would say in Discourse III at the end of the following year. The painters who applied themselves more particularly to low and vulgar...praise which we give must be as limited as its object [whereas] it must not be forgotten that there is a nobleness of conception, which goes beyond anything... | |
 | 1839 - 348 sider
...themselves more particularly to low and vulgar characters, and who express with precision the various shadea of passion, as they are exhibited by vulgar minds,...confined subjects, the praise which we give must be »8 limited as its object. The merry-making or quarrelling of the boors of Teniers ; the same 8ort... | |
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The painters who have applied themselves more particularly to low and vulgar characters, and who express with precision the various shades of passion, as they are exhibited by vulgar minds (such as we see in the works of Hogarth) deserve great praise;... 