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    THE PICTURES OF THE SEASON. 415

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    tion . " In these , tlie masterpieces of the world of art , we have all that is wanting * herea due subordination of parts to the whole , and a

    , that consequent when these concentration ictures first of interest meet the , unity of it is purpose not this and and desi that gn ; and so eye

    the other which p claims ( and distracts ) our , attention , but the whole ; and ritual it is and onl material y when we unity have , that gazed we our look fill , drunk in detail deep for of the their effect

    spiproduced There . is nothing in modern painting * which can compare with the

    wonderful manipulation eastern of Holman studies Hunt , ) and ' s the picture group , ( excep of Rabbii t perh told ap that to s Mr the the . Lewi left artist s is ' s

    mas went terl to y the in Hol the y extreme Land , and . gave We , need in all scarcel , six years y be 7 study to this picture ; it bears internal evidence of the fact . The heads are studied

    porare traits we ; the feel rich instinctivel robes and criticall the gorgeous correct architecture resuscitated of from the temp patri le - y

    archal , chronicles . AU y that , laborresearc , h and study can do has , been And faithfull if the y accessories done , but fall still , thus it is short not a what picture shall . we of Him , say

    the child-Christ , the master-spirit of the , work ; if there be no inspiration in the surroundings , here , marvellousl surely , it will be found d ? To

    great find our minds one in future their , no ; wrapt . it but to True take and be , Christ the distant the eyes figure ? expression are We from venture its s a urroundings to foreshadowing y say painted , no . , , and an Davi of would some d the it guess

    mi any ht bebut Christno . It is of the earth , earthy : and just those however impotent very g qualities cult , the ivated hand which and of , have the elaborated made artist the at accessories must that point ive what p where lace they to realistic insp are , iration render art , ,

    or failas Holman Hunt has failed , in the child g who , rare and noble as a child , is notwe maintainthe child-Christ , , the incarnation of

    , , , the Deity . passable It is a patience great work stud , an and achievem skillbut ent lacking of unsurp insp assed iration and , unity unsur , and

    repose , it is not a , picture y , . We challenge ; , the broken and disturbed say images . Let of them it in the ask minds themselves of our if the readers strong for and the abiding truth of impression what we

    be of the whole or of parts ; we know the answer and need say

    no more . of Mr the . realistic Dyce in a " nd Pegwell idealistic Bay" schools has come than nearer to artist the perfect we know union of . any

    _, With all the elaborate detail of Mr . Brett , there is at the same produced feeling time such for a perfect and charming rendering subordination and of poetic both of atmosp pictur parts e here to from the and very whole space comnion , , that such he a -p true laco has

    materials . Where _LiniielT we s wonder woolly do landscapes such trees are and more corn exaggerated -fields exist than out of ever the . .

    artist's , imagination , ?

    The Pictures Of The Season. 415

    THE PICTURES OF THE SEASON . 415

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1860, page 415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081860/page/55/