Only gradually his brushwork became thinner and thinner, invisible and almost untraceable, carrying out his maxim: "A picture is finished when all traces of means used to bring about the end have disappeared.
But perhaps I am speaking too cautiously, for surely broken brushwork and violet shadows lead only to one possible goal--the prismatic colours.
Let him who doubts compare the work of almost any of the elder Academicians with the work of those who practise the square brushwork of the French school.
The same freedom of brushwork characterises another "Annunciation," of probably the same time, and treated in much the same manner, although less stately than that of the Uffizi.
It follows, among other things, that in Egypt, as in China and Japan, literary style and mere penmanship and brushwork are to be conceived as inseparable.
Be it an ancient or modern episode, the story could be told in the tone and with well-nigh the brushwork of Van Dyck.
The truer view is, that the simplest brushwork patterns, or even no pattern at all, would be preferable to the tawdry results that the cheapest forms of transfer-printing have rendered possible.
As an historical painter he takes a very high rank amongst seventeenth-century masters; he was far ahead in vigour of treatment and in strength of brushwork of any of his contemporaries in Italy.
His brushwork became at once more refined, his colouring more transparent, and his method in every way more facile.
He had used it in truly painter-like fashion, making the colour itself contribute to the emotional appeal of the drama and giving to the actual brushwork functional value in the building up of form.
It is as indifferent to the kind of brushwork used by the painter, as to the variety of chisel handled by the sculptor.
The observer of the picture judges it for its beauty, and if it be well painted, then the character of the brushwork is unconsidered.
If, however, the brushworkis so broad that the manner of painting protrudes itself upon the observer at first sight, then the work cannot be of a high class.
His brushwork was so rapid and decisive that in scarcely any of his designs is there evidence of deliberation.
The bold brushwork of Cyprus foils the marvellous familles vert and rose of the Chinese, the faultless Wedgwood sets off the virile Toft.
Their large plaques offer a wonderful variety of pure brushwork ornament with spirited heraldic additions.
Rhodes and Damascus produced a somewhat coarser ware, but bold and free in brushwork and varied with a bright red.
This era is chiefly notable for its splendid ruby lustres and the remarkable power and freedom, amounting to absolute abandon, of the brushwork and drawing shown by its artists.
The "Souvenir of Velazquez," indeed, is one of the most decisive pieces of fluent brushwork which has been produced by any modern painter of the British school.
The total mastery ofbrushwork and the ink line gave the monochrome artists a foundation of absolute technical achievement, and the Zen calligrapher-poets a tradition of spontaneity in keeping with Zen ideals.
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