I am not very fond of painting portraits; but a mayor is a mayor, and there is something grand in the idea of the Norman arch.
Short legs in a heroic picture will never do; and, upon the whole, I think the painter’s attempt at the heroic in painting the mayor of the old town a decided failure.
At length we were shown into the studio, where we found the painter, with an easel and brush, standing before a huge canvas, on which he had lately commenced painting a heroic picture.
Hogarth’s painting representing the first scene on the boards, with noble dukes and earls on fauteuils upon the stage, is well known.
Whilst painting his “Maid of Saragossa” he accidentally wounded his foot with a bayonet, but went on with the picture, using his own blood as a pigment, till the surgeon arrived.
I have an exquisite gratification in paintingportraits wretchedly.
Sharland /Slanning’s Oak/ 188 From an oil painting by A.
His account can here be briefly summed up:-- “There were times when music seemed to be his employment, and painting his diversion.
In no one city can we trace firm chronological progression, or discover the fixed local character which justifies our dividing the history of Italian painting by its schools.
The arts of painting and of sculpture felt its influence.
While Sorolla is painting a group of children on the beach, I may take a kodak picture of the same group.
The fact that a painting represents certain trees and hills is here only secondary; the primary fact is what the artist has succeeded in making the on-looker feel.
We have been speaking of the representative arts of paintingand sculpture, but the same is true of art in any form.
There is a picture of a bull moose by Carl Rungius, which seems to me as spirited an animal painting as I have ever seen.
I have for years, while a member of the General Board, advocated painting the ships war color at all times, and by this mail I am asking the Department to make the necessary change in the Regulations and paint the ships properly.
Painting the face and body, especially with red paint, is always among Indians a more or less sacred performance, usually accompanied with prayers.
But it wasn't often that Braddish could get free of his manifold occupations: his painting contracts and his political engagements.
One I remember was a painting of a wonderfully perfect temple, which occupied the whole space of the picture.
At one end was a crown, and behind the pillows was a frescopainting representing Jacob's Ladder, with a multitude of angels ascending and descending.
We are also shown the Princess among her books and pictures, the Princess singing old Scottish ballads and English hymns, the Princess painting flower-pieces, and above all the Princess as a gardener.
She made such progress in painting that von Angeli declares himself proud to call himself her instructor.
Above the chancel there had been a painting representing the Lord's Supper, not copied even second or third hand from Leonardo's masterpiece, but from the work of some far more humble artist.
A red curtain veiled the long-valued painting in its disfigured old age.
CXLVI Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, My sinful earth these rebel powers array, Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth, Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?
Why should false paintingimitate his cheek, And steel dead seeming of his living hue?
An excellent effect can be obtained by varnishing the parts depressed by the punch to make the colour adhere, and then painting them with gouache or bronzes.
Any painting coated with this varnish becomes brilliant, beautiful and perfectly lasting.
This want of moderation in the use of gold is to be met with long afterwards, for it is mentioned in his book on painting by L.
In no other painting of Hogarth's that I have seen does he make this striking use of primaries and complementaries.
And of all self-portraits is there one more self-revealing than "Hogarth Paintingthe Comic Muse"?
Call Hogarth the Father of English Painting if you like, say that he set the ball rolling, that he gave life to dry bones, then recall his achievement, and where does he stand?
Connoisseurship in painting was at a low ebb in the first half of the eighteenth century.
But then I'm not a moralist either, though I suppose I might be both and yet go on painting about the same.
Certain irregularities of feature, too, were more apparent in thepainting than in nature.
This was not flattering to the artist, it was true, but in the present case he would rather keep his own painting than have it appreciated ever so highly by any one else.
The great Apelles has represented her, in his painting of Calumny, under the appearance of a modest female; in her hand is placed a round mirror.
As rising from the sea, the name of Anadyomine is applied to her, and rendered immortal by the celebrated painting of Apelles, which represented her issuing from the bosom of the waves, and wringing her tresses on her shoulder.
It has the merit, too, of that species of accurate painting which can be looked at again and again with new pleasure.
They came back in the dusk, talking of painting and papering and the laying out of the garden.
The French and Italians have or have had painting and sculpture.
But now he recognised her window as an adaptation of Fra Angelico's picture, and he told her how the saint had wandered from monastery to monastery painting pictures on the walls.
The likeness of Mr. Knapp is from an excellent painting of the almost centenarian's head, by Mr. Charles W.
The portrait of General Armstrong, printed on the preceding page, is from a painting in possession of his daughter, Mrs. William B.
This is from a painting by Tice, in my possession.
The portrait here given is from a painting of him executed soon after the close of the Revolution, and now in possession of his son, John B.
The good news is that I got done with the painting of my kitchen--and you all got to come and give a look how it shines in my house like in a palace.
How could I imagine for myself that so he would thank me for laying in my money to painting up his house?
Right away I saw before my eyes how I could shine up my kitchen like a parlor by painting the walls and sewing up new curtains for the window.
But this painting was already dreaming itself in my head for years.
With this colour they daub the body, legs, and thighs in bars and patches, and take the greatest pains about painting the face, usually with red and black.
The men are specially fond of painting their faces and bodies with vermilion, white and blue clay, charcoal or soot mixed with a little grease or water.
This is all I can remember, except that thepainting of this hall occupied six years, and was finished in 1826.
I shall have much to say hereafter of the fresco painting in Germany; for the present, proceed we on our journey.
To confess the truth, I was sometimes annoyed, and sometimes amused, by the cant I heard in Germany about those schools of painting which preceded Albert Durer.
All I ask is, that modern sculpture should be allowed, like painting and poetry, to have its romantic, as well as its classical school.
Painting gives us the material, sculpture the abstract, ethical aspect of the man.
Now, the protection and the patronage which a sovereign accords to an artist generally amounts to this: he begins by carving orpainting the portrait of his patron, and of some of the various members of his patron's family.
By Murillo, there are eight pictures--not one in his most elevated style, but all perfect miracles of painting and of nature.
But this is digressing: the question is, may not the moral effect ofpainting be still counted on, if the painter be himself imbued with the right spirit?
It was just past dawn, with the sun painting a rose-glory above the eastern hills.
Besides painting his round face, it had provided him with the fool's courage to unmask his hatred of Sir Richard, at whom he glared across the improvised table with an open defiance.
Hilda's painting gives us a reasonable background; at least as reasonable as such exiles can hope for.
Does Hilda take her painting so seriously as all that?
Everything you do is worth while--from painting to dancing.
I can't afford to pay a man for painting and then pay the city for the privilege.
Their simplicity tenderness, healthy, interesting motives vigorous action, and character painting will please all girl readers.
Their simplicity tenderness, healthy, interesting motives, vigorous action, and character painting will please all girl readers.
Or painting portraits like Copley and Stuart and the young Mr. Allston up in Court Street.
It was a vigorous if somewhat crude painting by a Dutch artist.
