Colour thrown upon a screen without any tone or form values is vapid in its effect.
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The purulent bronchitis was worth it
While discussing the impressive “tonal beauty” of thick urban atmospheres… pretty sure he’s praising smog
Page 68, Oil Painting Techniques and Materials by Harold Speed
Come paint in London… impress your friends with your mastery of atmospheric perspective… die young from hypoxia
On the fleeting popularity of art styles
So many people now take their thought ready-made from the Press. Home-made thinking went out of fashion with home-made bread.
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Relevant to my interests
For if you cannot paint what you see, you will find yourself handicapped in trying to paint what you imagine.
Page 60, Oil Painting Techniques and Materials by Harold Speed
This applies to lots of things
The fanatic by his fanaticism, shows that he subconsciously doubts his own cause.
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Renaissance Chiaroscuro, etc.
In the wide lighting that you usually get out-of-doors, these strong effects of light and shade are impossible; and it is amazing with what skill they justified such flagrant departure from visual truth.
Page 104, Oil Painting Techniques and Materials by Harold Speed
I’m looking at you, Da Vinci.
On Abstract Art
And without the title, “Portrait of an Englishwoman,” I doubt whether Mr. Lewis’s drawing would have suggested to anybody even the most violent and revolutionary of ideas on English femininity; but might have left them still puzzled whether it was a design for a new sort of magic lantern, or a railway signal after an accident.
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I am inclined to agree with Mr. Speed.
“Modern”
On “violently modern painters:”
It seems a pity even so simple a technical course as could be furnished by an ordinary house-painter as to a decent manner of putting on paint, has not been indulged in.
Page 64, Oil Painting Techniques and Materials by Harold Speed
I may have too many tubes of paint
Students are apt to rush into painting with a full palette of colours, and absolutely no preliminary experience in handling paint whatsoever; with naturally the most appalling results.
Page 93, Oil Painting Techniques and Materials by Harold Speed
2016 Politics?
A loud-voiced manner is undoubtedly the popular one at the moment, and these crude voices are naturally intolerant of what they do not comprehend, and the more cultured manners of expression are hateful to them.
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p.s. this was originally written in 1924.