 If I say that the greatest picture is that which conveys to the mind of the spectator the greatest number of the greatest ideas, I have a definition which will include as subjects of comparison every pleasure which art is capable of conveying.  Modern Painters ... - Página 14por John Ruskin - 1878Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1843 - 1380 páginas
...enough. In the " Definition of Greatness in Art," we find—" If I say that the greatest picture is that which conveys to the mind of the spectator the...every pleasure which art is capable of conveying." Now, there are great ideas which are so conflietiug as to annul the force of each other. This is not... | |
 | 1847 - 810 páginas
...and ideas; but in itself nothing : he gives as the definition of greatness in Art, " the conveying to the mind of the spectator the greatest number of the greatest ideas." What then are the ideas that can be conveyed by Art ? He answers, that there are five classes of them.... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1855 - 608 páginas
...the intention of communicating ideas, that kind of art will readily be admitted to be the greatest " which conveys to the mind of the spectator the greatest number of the greatest ideas." If this is so, then truth of nature, derived from a knowledge of Nature and her laws, is the only foundation... | |
 | Mrs. Annie Webb - 1859 - 372 páginas
...the purest taste, or the most ardent love of beauty ! If, as Buskin says, " the greatest picture is that which conveys to the mind of the spectator the greatest number of great ideas, and he is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest... | |
 | Mrs. Annie Webb - 1859 - 370 páginas
...the purest taste, or the most ardent love of beauty ! If, as Ruskin says, " the greatest picture is that which conveys to the mind of the spectator the greatest number of great ideas, and he is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest... | |
 | Peter Bayne - 1860 - 432 páginas
...are also of essential moment. He thus defines greatness in pictures: — " The greatest picture is that which conveys to the mind of the spectator the greatest number of the greatest ideas." This expression is met with in the same important initiatory chapter from which we made the former... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1888 - 576 páginas
...nothing else than the type of strong and noble life. All great art is delicate. Greatness in art is that which conveys to the mind of the spectator the greatest number of the greatest ideas. Power in art is the doing of much with restricted means. ASTRAGAL. — A semicircular moulding. ATTITUDE.... | |
 | Oscar Lovell Triggs - 1905 - 312 páginas
...social type. "I say," said Ruskin in the first volume of Modern Painters, "that art is the greatest, which conveys to the mind of the spectator, the greatest number of the greatest ideas." "Painting, or art generally," he says again, "is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable... | |
 | Ágúst Bjarnason - 1911 - 290 páginas
...tyve Timer end i et helt Menneskeliv, saaledes siger Ruskin om Maleriet: »the greatest picture is that which conveys to the mind of the spectator the greatest number of the greatest ideas« (p. 52). Og ligesaa lidt som Guyau vil udelukke det grimme af Kunsten, men vil bruge det til Kontrastvirkning,... | |
 | Henry G. Hartman - 1919 - 260 páginas
...refinement or finish is an excrescence and a deformity. * * * So that, if I say that the greatest picture is that which conveys to the mind of the spectator the...every pleasure which art is capable of conveying." 6 •Vol. I pp. 83-84. Ruskin tells us that "nothing but thought can pay for thought" in painting.... | |
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