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On Technique

Richard Schmid said something at a workshop back in 1997 I’ll never forget.  He said, “When you look at Sargent and Zorn, the first thing you see is their dazzling technique.  But when you look at Sorolla, the first thing … Continue reading

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Henri on painting

“Ability to copy lines, shapes, tones, amounts to little. Ability to correlate lines, shapes, tones is the rare and necessary quality of the artist.   All good art is composition. The painter deals with areas.  He should know areas.” – Robert … Continue reading

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Robert Henri on Subject

“The error rests in the mistaken idea that the subject of a painting is the object painted.” – Robert Henri (The Art Spirit, p. 128, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, originally published in 1923)

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