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Download or read book The International Studio Volume Ñ,. 51 written by Charles Holme and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...it departed from impressionism. In turning away a little from nature, such art indicates an abatement in the passion for nature which sustained the greatest impressionist art. It begins to fall into line with conventional and with purely decorative art in the matter of flower-painting, for instance; no longer is everything, almost to the scented air in which the flower sways, part of the impression to be rendered. Instead, this art passes at once to the sense of pattern, to sensation of colour, eliminated from its context. It attempts to go beyond nature. The satisfaction of the highly disciplined conscience for the truth to nature no longer contents it; that gives place to sheer invention. Imagination, which enters into every kind of art, enters on this occasion with a new intention. It is not now the endeavour of the artist to live, as it were, for a moment, through complete sympathy in the flower while he paints it, and express his profound sense of its significant life, but to place the flower on canvas or paper as an incident contributing to sensation, within a scheme in which its individuality as an oflspring of nature is overlooked. We will not speak further of this school, nor attempt to represent it in the illustrations to this article, which is retrospective in character, but we will turn again to the decorative aspect of flowerpainting in its more general sense.-We have referred to those artists who, like the Japanese, aim entirely in art at decoration. But the element of decoration enters consciously into every deliberate scheme of composition. In its first and its greatest period, Dutch flower-painting aimed at an intensely natural representation of the detail of individual flowers, but their pictures, as distinguished from...