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Hints to students and amateurs

THIS is a charming little book. Brightly written, poignant with enthusiasm, and full of excellent teaching, it is sure to fulfil its purpose : to stimulate the amateur, and encourage the art student novitiate to serious study, hard, and, perhaps sometimes, dry work.

Reading it reminded me pleasantly of my youth, when all the problems with which it deals were so new to one, when the veil was not drawn, and the limitations were undiscovered. For it seemed so sweet and easy then ; each item of progress pointed to a decade, and it seems centuries since the passionate longing for more knowledge, more system, more " light," drew one on and on with an almost fantastic glitter of possible planets to explore, and fresh stars to discover. This is one of the charms of Mrs. Jopling's book : it is so fresh ; not in the least pedantic or puzzling, or remote ; there is not an alarming page or a discouraging sentence, and yet the noble art of delineation, drawing, and painting, and the accessories to them, are treated reverently as of importance, and not dismissed as things with which " genius" has no need. Genius being one of the most deadly pitfalls to the right development of the artistic temperament, which, apt to be over emotional, unrestrained, and vagarious, needs traveaux force to preserve, anyhow, a little sanity. Yes ! True ! But not real, only sham genius is such, and though it may be perhaps too much to claim for genius that it is the power of taking pains, we may safely, I think, conclude that genius, without taking pains, is not unlikely to end in mental break-up.

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Series Title
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Call Number
SRLF:LAGE-1981371
Publisher
London : George Rowney & Co. : London : George Rowney & Co..,
Collation
cdl; americana
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
219976505
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NONE
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text
Media Type
computer
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online resource
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Subject(s)
amateurs
students
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Suwardi
Source
https://archive.org/details/hintstostudentsa00jopliala/page/vii/mode/1up
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Suwardi
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urn:oclc:record:1046048441
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