Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. 1905 copy. Pages in good condition. Some tanning due to age and some dust marking on cover pages. The pages overall are clean and the plates are bright and clear. No notes or highlighting. See images. Very nice copy of this book.

About the book >.>.> Given a few documentary notices and a number of pictures to reconstruct the history of an artist’s education and of the early years of his career-such at the beginning of our task is the problem before us. How shall we solve it? In one way only and that is by discovering what habits have become so rooted in the artist as to be unconscious and under what influ- ences he formed them the training of the painter being altogether a training in habits of attention visualization and execution. Of all perceptible phenomena the painter is taught to observe only a few-a certain type of face let us say a certain type of figure a certain type of movement are singled out for observation from among the multiple types existing. Of all possible ways of picturing this type in his memory he is taught but one way and of all possible ways of transferring his visual image to wall panel or canvas he again is taught but one way. He may get more ways later (MP)