What our artist has to put up with — (The Anti-Beauty Crusade in Modern Art Criticism) by George du Maurier. Punch, (December 9, 1888), 282.
Eminent Art Critic. “Yes, my young Friend — as I have often said in Print — you, in common with the Modern English School of Female Figure Painters, are depraved by a morbid and inane love of Prettiness to the exclusion of all the sterner qualities of Character, Reality, Truth to Nature — a — a By the way, here come my Wife and Daughters, who share my Views. Let me introduce you.”
(Our Artist understands the Eminent Critic's point of view, and forgives him.)
Art Criticism and Looking at Works of Art
- Professional Beauties of the Past
- Flunkyana
- A New Reading of a Famous Picture
- At the R. A. -- Triumph of Realistic Art
- Instinctive Critical Acumen [Moses Striking the Rock]
- A Damper
- The Famous Portrait
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