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contains: [[underlined]] pictorial problem [[/underlined]], which arises from the motive, i.e. character of the locality and incidental combination of things, sanctioned by their growths, mans labor and habits, climate etc; from the momentary Sun-stand and atmosphere; from the personal impression and feelings carried into the motif; from the elementary conditions of the pictorial. This is not to be a flat color assemblage like an enameled clay tile or a wall paper pattern. The pictorial requires [[underlined]] principle [[/underlined]] color variety and color unity, color logic and color expression through the [[underlined]] organism of color form developped through [[/underlined]] color planes. Each mass of the motif to be a [[underlined]] form [[/underlined]], hence of various color planes set at different angles. Take the grass banks. No [[image - drawing of grass banks]] detail illustration of the grass but a simple form as a part of the whole, adding by its own character of line, direction, colors, size, et.c. to [[underlined]] the whole pictorial form [[/underlined]]. hence [[image - different drawing of grass banks]]
[[underlined]] Principle: [[/underlined]] One must not be satisfied to imitate the form which is, but try to vary it for the more pictorial that might be there, in color and shape. Yet one must never, in landscape, invent impossible, improbable, untrue things. So with the water here: the reflexes of objects in it must

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