 I will only say that he who misses seeing these paintings will miss the best opportunity he may ever have of understanding the age in which he lives; for if ever the nineteenth century has had a prophet, it is the Russian painter, Verestchagin.  Realism - Page 7by Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin - 1888 - 35 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Vasiliĭ Vasilʹevich Vereshchagin - Realism in art - 1889 - 36 pages
...the gross realism that was beginning to obtain in French art. Mr. Dargenty, of ' Courrier de l'Art,' does not consider Verestchagin as a ' seducing ' painter,...of all who take the least pains to understand him. * * * * -X- # -XI will only say that he who misses seeing these paintings will miss the best opportunity... | |
 | Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - Electronic journals - 1907 - 902 pages
...Veretchagin— a painter equal to any of his contemporaries in artistic ability, and beyond any painter who ever lived in the grandeur of his moral aims and...of all who take the least pains to understand him. He who misses seeing these paintings will miss the best opportunity he will ever have of understanding... | |
 | Leo Wiener - Soviet Union - 1915 - 264 pages
...Vereshchagin, a painter equal to any of his contemporaries in artistic ability, and beyond any painter who ever lived in the grandeur of his moral aims and...lessons to the consciences of all who take the least pain to understand him. I will only say that he who misses seeing these paintings will miss the best... | |
 | American Sociological Association - Sociology - 1907 - 162 pages
...Veretchagin—a painter equal to any of his contemporaries in artistic ability, and beyond any painter who ever lived in the grandeur of his moral aims and...of all who take the least pains to understand him. He who misses seeing these paintings will miss the best opportunity he will ever have of understanding... | |
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