Author: Sir Max Beerbohm
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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The Happy Hypocrite
Author: Sir Max Beerbohm
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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The Outline of Art -
Author: William Orpen
Publisher: Carveth Press
ISBN: 1443705128
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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THE OUTLINE OF ART - BY WILLIAM ORPEN - UNQUESTIONABLY the two greatest English painters of landscape, and probably the two greatest English painters of any kind, were Turner and Constable, who were born within a year of one another. Turner, as we saw in the last chapter, amassed a large fortune Constable, on the other hand, could hardly earn a bare living, and not until 1814, when the artist was thirty-eight, did he sell a picture to any but his own personal friends. How was it that, from a worldly point of view, Coilstable failed where Turner succeeded Thc explaination is to be found in the totally different character of thc landscapes painted by these two artists. Turner, as Claude had done before him, made frequent use of llorninal subjects as an excuse for his pictures of Nature there was a dramatic element in lis art which appealed to the popular imagination, and even when, as in many of his later works, people found difficulty in apprchending thc cleincnts of his style, they werc insensibly affected by tlie splendour of his colour and brought to adillit that these pictures, if difficult to understand, were paintings in the grand style. Constable never made use of fictitious subjects and titles as an excuse for painting landscapes......
Publisher: Carveth Press
ISBN: 1443705128
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
THE OUTLINE OF ART - BY WILLIAM ORPEN - UNQUESTIONABLY the two greatest English painters of landscape, and probably the two greatest English painters of any kind, were Turner and Constable, who were born within a year of one another. Turner, as we saw in the last chapter, amassed a large fortune Constable, on the other hand, could hardly earn a bare living, and not until 1814, when the artist was thirty-eight, did he sell a picture to any but his own personal friends. How was it that, from a worldly point of view, Coilstable failed where Turner succeeded Thc explaination is to be found in the totally different character of thc landscapes painted by these two artists. Turner, as Claude had done before him, made frequent use of llorninal subjects as an excuse for his pictures of Nature there was a dramatic element in lis art which appealed to the popular imagination, and even when, as in many of his later works, people found difficulty in apprchending thc cleincnts of his style, they werc insensibly affected by tlie splendour of his colour and brought to adillit that these pictures, if difficult to understand, were paintings in the grand style. Constable never made use of fictitious subjects and titles as an excuse for painting landscapes......
William Orpen
Author: Robert Upstone
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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An Onlooker in France 1917-1919
Author: William Sir Orpen
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "An Onlooker in France 1917-1919" by William Sir Orpen. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "An Onlooker in France 1917-1919" by William Sir Orpen. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Laurence Stephen Lowry, 1887-1976
Author: Laurence Stephen Lowry
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Stories of Old Ireland & Myself
Author: Sir William Orpen
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Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Modern English Painters: Hennell to Hockney
Author: John Rothenstein
Publisher: Salem House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Publisher: Salem House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Orpen, Mirror to an Age
Author: Bruce Arnold
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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A Type of Beauty
Author: Patricia O'Reilly
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 9780956363206
Category : Divorced women
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
'A Type of Beauty' is the dramatised account of the life of Kathleen Newton (1854-1882), whose intense affair with Jacques Tissot scandalised Victorian society. A sweeping story set in London, Agra and Paris, it brings to life the sights, scents and emotional landscape of the Victorian era.
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 9780956363206
Category : Divorced women
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
'A Type of Beauty' is the dramatised account of the life of Kathleen Newton (1854-1882), whose intense affair with Jacques Tissot scandalised Victorian society. A sweeping story set in London, Agra and Paris, it brings to life the sights, scents and emotional landscape of the Victorian era.
Shaping Ireland
Author: Donal Maguire
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904288763
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 111
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904288763
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 111
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