 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 sidor
...Again and again he insists, "This idea of the perfect state of nature, which the artist calls the ideal beauty, is the great leading principle by which works of genius are conducted." What Dr. Johnson says bluntly ("Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations... | |
 | William Blake - 1966 - 964 sidor
...nature by herself . . . This idea of the perfect state of nature, which the Artist calls the Ideal Beauty, is the great leading principle by which works of genius are conducted Knowledge of Ideal Beauty is Not to be Acquired. It is Born with us. Innate Ideas are in Every Man,... | |
 | Anita Callaway - 2000 - 248 sidor
...with Reynolds's edict that'[t]he idea of the perfect state of nature, which the Artist calls the Ideal Beauty, is the great leading principle, by which works of genius are conducted'; whereas the colonial La Milo, as 'a mere copier of nature can never produce anything great; can never... | |
 | Elise Lawton Smith, Evelyn De Morgan - 2002 - 268 sidor
...about the meaning and role of art. In an 1841 article Ropes supported Reynolds's belief that ideal beauty is "the great leading principle by which works of genius are conducted"; but he differed from Reynolds in arguing that this form of beauty is "communicated by influx, into... | |
 | Inga Bryden - 1998 - 312 sidor
...unlike to any one object. This idea of the perfect state of nature, which the artist calls the Ideal Beauty, is the great leading principle by which works...this Phidias acquired his fame. He wrought upon a sober principle what has so much excited the enthusiasm of the world: and by this method you, who have... | |
 | Charles A. Cramer - 2006 - 196 sidor
...figures unlike any one object. This idea of the perfect state of nature, which the Artist calls Ideal Beauty, is the great leading principle, by which works of genius are conducted.7 I quote this passage at length because of the density with which Reynolds deploys the new... | |
 | 1839 - 348 sidor
...unlike to any one object. This idea of the perfect state of nature, which the artist calls the ideal beauty, is the great leading principle by which works...this, Phidias acquired his fame. He wrought upon a sober principle what has so much excited the enthusiasm of the world ; and by this method you, who... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1926 - 312 sidor
...unlike to any one object. The idea of the perfect state of Nature, which the artist calls the ideal beauty, is the great leading principle by which works...are conducted. By this Phidias acquired his fame." Such art, the Classicists felt, is the highest attainment of man, the achievement once more of order,... | |
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This idea of the perfect state of nature, which the Artist calls ' the Ideal Beauty, is the great leading principle by which works of genius are conducted. 
