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ferner [[underlined]] alles so abgewogen und zusammengestimmt dass ein unveränderlich Ganzes, eine lebensvolle Einheit zuletzt resultiert, wie ein Menschenantlitz [[/underlined]], Seele und Character habend. Ich merke mehr und mehr dass in Portrait und Figurzeichnen soll ([[strikethrough]] La [[/strikethrough]] [[Zuloage?]]) und auf die malerische Idee der Renaissance in Italien gehe. Aber nur schweben die Farben auf Chinesischen Tassen vor : das dunkle Kobaltblau, hellstes Himmelblau, hell gelb, grün, violett und viel weiss; a ich die schweren rot-schwarz Effekte alter Portraitmeister (Hals).
Hamerton in thought about Art 1871: page 110:.:.dislike to extraordinary effects & scenery. spectator objects to excentricity. Effects are the life of landscape; the most powerful when this life is carried to its utmost pitch and intensity. As rare as mans moment of passion. But then you see a man; so a scene: moment, of supreme excitement; artistic quality of synthesis. A fine effect is pictorially complete, a common effect is usually scattered and comparatively unmeaning; the former: large masses and vigorous oppositions; the former gives to the colorist magnificent arrangements of color. A painter seeks those colors he loves. "A few failures, that way, are better than placid contentment with sober green & grey"

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