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Ruskin on Pictures: Academy notes. Notes on Prout and Hunt
Ruskin on Pictures Academy notes Notes on Prout and Hunt Author:John Ruskin Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: NEW SOCIETY OF PAJNTERS IN WATER-COLOURS 18. The Bass Rock. (/ W. Whymfer.) A Most interesting subject, truly seen, and well rendered up to a certain point... more ». There is no high power of present execution shown in it; but I think the painter must have great feeling, and perhaps even the rare gift of invention. Those bird-clouds are well wreathed and tossed, so as to show the noble form of the rock. I hope this painter may advance far. 63. -bardj. Acouss.1 (Charles Vacher.) There is great beauty of tone in many of Mr. Vacher's drawings, and their impression is often most pleasing; but he should really leave out the figures for some time to come, exercising himself in figure-drawing in the meanwhile; and also he needs to study individual pieces of foreground with more respect for their local colours. He is workirtg too much by recipe, and the nearer stones are here very meagre. in. The Rising or The Ground Sea: Treharwith, Cornwall. (S. Cook.) This is a drawing full of merit and feeling for sea; but there are five others by this artist in the room, and in all of them there is a green sea under a slight breeze, breaking on a flat shore. The sea thus represented six times over is indeed very like salt-water, and the waves shake well alongtheir edges, giving more suggestion than usual of the tremu- lousness which so often runs in a kind of electric current along the whole length of a breaker's edge as it rises. But I sincerely hope Mr. Cook will make some effort to break from this slavery to one kind of wave. He might teach himself and us, a serviceable lesson by resolving, on the first morning of summer, when there was a likelihood of unsettled but not stormy weather during the day, to go down to the beach as soon after dawn as possible, and make a rapid sketch of the ex...« less