| The discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds |  | Author: Joshua Reynolds
Publisher: J. Carpenter
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 279
ASIN: B000862RI4
Publication Date: 1842
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DISCOURSE Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy, on the Dis- III tribulion ofthe Prizes, Decem ber 14, 1770. THE GREAT LEADING PRINCIPLES OF THE GRAND STYLE. OF BEAUTY.THE GENUINK HABITS OF NATURE TO BE DISTINGUISHED FROM THOSE OF FASHION. Gentlemen, IT is not easy to speak with propriety to so many students of different ages and different degrees of advancement. The mind requires nourishment adapted to its growth ; and what may have promoted our earlier efforts might retard us in our nearer approaches to perfection. The first endeavours of a yeuBg pamterrsI -have remarked in a former discourse, must be employed in the attainment of mechanical dexterity, and, confined to the mere imitattoffbf the object before him. Those who have advanced beyond the rudiments, may, perhaps, find advantage in reflecting on the advice which I have likewise given them, when I recommended the diligent study of the works of our great predecessors ; but I at the same time endeavoured to guard them against an implicit submission to the authority of any one master however excellent: or by a strict imitation C of bis manner, precluding themselves from the abun- ; dance and variety of Nature.?"! will now add, that 'I/Nature herself is not to be too closely copied?] There lUre excellencies in the art of painting beyond what is r commonly called the imitation of nature ; and these excellencies I wish to point outT The students who, having passed through the initiatory exercises, are more advanced in the art, and who, sure of their hand, have leisure to exert their understanding, must now be told, that£S mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great; can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator"] The wish of the genuine painter must be ...
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