The gradations of color in the various shadows belonging to various lights exhibit form, and therefore no one but a colorist can ever draw forms perfectly (see Modern Painters, vol.
From these momentary expressions of light and from the experience gained, the mobile colorist would receive material aid and his productions would be viewed by a more receptive audience or rather "optience" as it may be called.
The consensus of opinion of a large group of average persons might indicate a negative reply, but the combined opinion of this group is not so valuable as the opinion of a colorist or of an artist who has sensed the wonders of light.
Miss Gloag is reported as saying that women have little sense of composition, a failing which she does not seem to share; in this respect and as a colorist she is especially strong.
One of her instructors was Lenbach, and she is said by some critics to have appropriated his peculiarities as a colorist and his shortcomings in drawing, without attaining his geniality and power of divination.
As a colorist she has few rivals, and her acute knowledge of drawing and genius for composition are apparent in everything she does.
There is perhaps nothing more characteristic of a great colorist than his power of using greens in strange places without their being felt as such, or at least than a constant preference of green gray to purple gray.
Sir William is considered the bestcolorist now living.
Mr. West is a bad colorist in general, but he excels in the grandeur of his thought.
Lincoln is a colorist of the highest order, although his desire to be with the tide has led him into too many imitations.
Spain conquered him, and Velasquez, the coloristof so peculiar a fancy that, after a visit to the Museum of the Prado, one carries away the idea that one has just seen the only painting worthy of the name.
In the same year with Trumbull was born the greatest colorist and portrait-painter we have seen on this side of the Atlantic, Gilbert Stuart.
As a water-colorist Mr. Nicoll is not excelled by any of our artists now concerned with coast scenes; and some of his landscapes in aquarelle sometimes rival his marines.
We do not wish to be understood as stating that the work of the colorist is solely mechanical; but we would emphasize that the influences of color are very largely the result of studied proportions.
To the colorist the combinations here suggested are full of inspiration.
As a colorist he excelled all contemporary animal and landscape painters, and used his brush with a freedom rivalling that of Delacroix.
Personal bias may lead one colorist a little more toward warm colors, and another slightly toward the cool field, in each case attaining a sense of harmonious balance by tempered degrees of value and chroma.
So must the art of the colorist be furnished with a scientific basis and a clear form of color notation.
A colorist is keenly alive to these feelings of satisfaction or annoyance, and consciously or unconsciously he rejects certain combinations of color and accepts others.
A child revels in strong chromas, but the mark of a colorist is ability to employ low chroma without impoverishing the color effect.
In this sense John Marin approaches real art because he is probably the most natural water-colorist in existence.
A colorist of photographic views for stereoscopes says he pays a lady to color for him $6 a gross.
An ambrotype copy should be kept for the coloristto look at occasionally, while progressing with his work.
His power as a colorist stood him in good stead again, and more than once he received a rare word of praise, feeling quite elated when, one day, late in the summer, Dr.
The boy found it hard to tear himself away from this laboratory and struck up quite a friendship with a Japanese colorist on the staff.
He is not a draughtsman, but he is a colorist of passionate intensity; he has original power and, more than all, he has a curious endowment of what may be called artistic clairvoyance.
The touch of the consummate colorist is not as evident, but is as discoverable by one who knows how to look, in a piece of nature-study from Fiji, six inches square, as it is in a large composition of saints and angels.
That is an instance as good as can be found of what the colorist has to do in this world.
In each of them, smiling landscape forms the background, a landscape not to be called sunny because the work of the true colorist hardly allows of sunshine.
But thoughts of real originality and grace not seldom visited his meditations; and he alone deserved the name of colorist among the painters I have as yet ascribed to the Bolognese School.
Caravaggio delighted in color, and was indeed a colorist of high rank, considering the times in which he lived.
Note how supreme a colorist has been at work on the High Priest's cope!
As a draughtsman and colorist he takes high rank, and as a student of human nature he has been compared to Hogarth and Moliere.
He was a strong colorist and his draughtsmanship is excellent.
The fiftieth might have observed what all painters know, that Raphael was not a great painter, either ascolorist or technician.
Stevens is one of the best of the moderns, a painter of power in fashionable or high-life genre, and a colorist of the first rank in modern art.
As a colorist he held rank, and his portraiture (rarely seen) was excellent.
Yet as a colorist he may be ranked second to none in French art, and in freshness of handling his work is a model for present-day painters.
He was the best brushman and coloristof the Florentine school.
The coloristdoes not acquire his skill by practice merely.
In this work, skill as a coloristof the first order is demanded, a large amount of shading being executed by the manipulation of glazing colors.
You know I sometimes speak of these generally as the Gothic and Greek schools, sometimes as the colorist and chiaroscurist.
On the contrary, to a colorist the first question about everything is its color.
It may be that a great colorist will use his utmost force of color, as a singer his full power of voice; but, loud or low, the virtue is in both cases always in refinement, never in loudness.
Farther, that he never became a great colorist does not mean that he could not, had he chosen.
As a colorist and a manipulator of paint, he places him with Sebastiano del Piombo--that is, among the mediocrities.
He was not a colorist as Titian was a colorist, or a painter as Velazquez was a painter--he was just so much of a colorist and a painter as is compatible with being the greatest of decorative designers.
He was a colorist and a chiaroscurist; and he had a great deal more interest in light and in landscape than most of the painters of his time.
The distinction between the colorist and chiaroscurist school is trenchant and absolute: and may soon be shown you so that you will never forget it.
At school, the future colorist sketched his masters, drew his comrades, charcoaled the dormitories, and showed surprising assiduity in the drawing-class.
Absorbed in the line of his own tastes, the future colorist paid no attention to anything that concerned himself.
As good a colorist by this time as Gros himself, Joseph now went to his master for consultation only.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "colorist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
