Catalogue of Paintings by Joaquin Sorolla Y Bastida

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Hispanic Society of America, 1909 - Painting - 154 pages
 

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Page 65 - No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort ; a great thing can only be done by a great man, and he does it without effort.
Page 46 - ... to represent past history. What do you suppose our descendants will care for our imaginations of the events of former days ? Suppose the Greeks, instead of representing their own warriors as they fought at Marathon, had left us nothing but their imaginations of Egyptian battles...
Page 47 - Shakspeare did perfectly what jEschylus did partially ; but none before Turner had lifted the veil from the face of nature ; the majesty of the hills and forests had received no interpretation, and the clouds passed unrecorded from the face of the heaven which they adorned, and of the earth to which they ministered.
Page 65 - The lifelong preparation. The truth is better indicated here than in this other sentence: "No great thing was ever done by great effort: a great thing can only be done by a great man, and he does it without effort." These latter words by Ruskin point a superficial aspect of the truth. Nothing at all in this world is accomplished without effort; and in proportion as the "thing" is worthy of achievement, so is the effort greater.
Page 1 - Catalogue of Paintings by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida exhibited by The Hispanic Society of America, February 8 to March 8, igoo.
Page 66 - The difficult appears to succumb before the practice of surmounting difficulty. He is unconscious, through association, of the terrors of technique. The world exists for him twice over. He is at once the eye and hand of Nature, and his own. Although the strife takes place, it seems no longer arduous to strive ; and yet infallibly to strive is to obtain. Therefore no subject that exists in life, or in life's mirror, art, is too ambitious for Sorolla. Like an athlete outstripping every other in a race,...
Page 91 - The Alcazar, the palace of the Moorish Kings, has been the residence of the Spanish sovereigns ever since St.
Page 20 - Sunday-school room of the Church of the Ascension, Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street, New York City.
Page 65 - On y trouve, à l'analyse, des qualités solides, une assise, un savoir, que bien peu d'impressionistes ont pu montrer dans leur art captivant mais vacillant, où la vibration chromatique trop souvent dévore les formes et détruit la stabilité de l'architecture du sol.
Page 49 - The secret of all realism, all "impressionism" proper, is contained in this — the very same which is unfolded by the early realists in splendid and imperious silence, and subsequently, in a clamorous and ostentatious fashion, by the modern French Impressionists. Sorolla, who proclaims it quietly and nobly in his painting, in our familiar talk assures me that its knowledge beat within him at all moments, just as rhythmical and constant as the beatings of his heart. "It came to me," he says, "together...

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