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Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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ating his subjects. His master, Ommegauck, jjainted sheep and cows in a style of such-classical perfection and yet so wanting in life, that he has been called The Eacine of Sheep.Verboeckhoven comes a step nearer to modern requirements both in the freedom of his paint-ing and in the expression of life; but as will be seen by the present picture, his success is butmoderate in either field. Compared with the work of Millet, Jacque, Tryon, these sheep arebut wooden things, and miglit have been drawn from stuffed specimens. The dog makes buta languid effort to scare the sheep, and the sheep and goats seem to more than half sus-pect that he means no harm; the lambs innocent questioning of its mother as to what Fidois up to, is met by a re-assuring glance and the little creature does not take the trouble torun away. The expression of the picture as a whole is one of pure vapidity, a striking con-trast to what we find in the pictures of even the minor painters of such subjects in our ownday.
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UJ ^ Q. -1 Z _; 7 C5 I- < < u I Z 1- < 5 - O 01 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 333 RUSSIA, POLAND, SPAIN, ITALY. T^HE few pages that are left us—must suffice for a notice of the modern art of Russia■*■ and Poland, Spain and Italy. The modern art of Russia, that which has any claim to a national character, is the crea-tion of the last quarter of the present century. Catherine II. founded the academy; stimulated by the example of France, then, as now,the dominating intellectual force in Europe, she determined that Russia also should havepainters and a school. It was not until 1812 that the reaction took place by which Russiawas wakened to a sense of national life. A new literature sprang up in which the old modelsof style and treatment were abandoned, and Russian life was described and analyzed by menof talent, the precursors of the new day. But while the poet, the novelist, the romance-writerhas wings, the artist has only feet, and in this as in ever

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