 | 1865 - 642 páginas
...apprehend more easily by the eye than by the ear, that pictures to them are greater realities than words; and, certainly, he that has in ignorance of...than to display his own. " Suspense," by Landseer (No. 99), is an excellent example of the pictures of this class. A noble bloodhound is watching at... | |
 | Frederic George Stephens - 1880 - 174 páginas
...this, if we chose, his honour should rest. " In some cases," says Mr. Eedgrave, with reference to it, "the invention of the artist is exerted rather to...exercise and call forth the imagination of the spectator than to display his own." " Suspense " is an excellent example of the pictures of this class. A noble... | |
 | Victoria and Albert museum - 1884 - 314 páginas
...henceforth a living reality, that may, perchance, never more be separated from the language of the poet. In some cases the invention of the artist is exerted...than to display his own. " Suspense," by Landseer (No. 99), i s an excellent example of the pictures of this class. A noble bloodhound is watchiug at... | |
 | South Kensington Museum - 1893 - 460 páginas
...apprehend more easily by the eye than by the ear, that pictures to them are greater realities than words ; and certainly, he that has in ignorance of...than to display his own. " Suspense," by Landseer (No. 99), is an excellent example of the pictures of this class. A noble bloodhound is watching at... | |
 | 1904 - 516 páginas
...which his honor should rest." The picture is an example of that class of Landseer's works in which "the invention of the artist is exerted rather to...exercise and call forth the imagination of the spectator than to display his own." It represents a huge bloodhound intently watching at a closed door, shut... | |
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This realisation by the painter, the multitude are thoroughly able to enter into and appreciate. It has been found by experience that men apprehend more easily by the eye than by the ear, that pictures to them are greater realities than words ; and certainly,... 