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nor sentimental (too much litterary detail) nor ornamental, nor fantastic, nor excentric or nervous (Van Gogh). Sidaners punctuation is not real painting; weaving, stitching, embroydering, mosaics, cloissonier, vase flux, etc have their stroke (color grain,) so to speak if they were paintings, borne of their technical fabric construction
But painting is a free art, free from such structural trammels, hence these do not interfere with a more realistic effect of the picture [[strikethrough]] The [[/strikethrough]] Whatever the brush will do with oil color is legitimate [[strikethrough]] as a [[/strikethrough]] from the point of view of stroke.
2) The stroke must express the idea is the second principle. As I already stated the mere position, mass, shape and quality of the color on the canvas expresses nearly everything at any rate the principal effect; but the handling of the paint with a brush is the process of its taking place, becoming a permanent fact, hence, only, as far as this visible procedure makes for or against the intended effect, does the stroke become important
3) principle: The stroke depends upon the size of the picture, which, together with

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