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"Mr. Whistler's drawing, which is sometimes that of a very slovenly master."
42.--LONG VENICE.
"After all, there are certain accepted canons about what const.i.tutes good drawing, good colour, and good painting; and when an artist deliberately sets himself to ignore or violate all of these, it is desirable that his work should not be cla.s.sed with that of ordinary artists."--_'Arry._
43.--NOCTURNE SALUTE.
"The utter absence, as far as my eye[29] may be trusted, of gradation."--_F. Wedmore._
[Note 29:?
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"There are many things in a painter's art which even a photographer cannot understand."
_Laudatory notice in Provincial Press._
44.--FURNACE NOCTURNE.
"There is no moral element in his chiaroscuro."
_Richmond Eagle._
45.--PIAZETTA.
"Whistler does not take much pains with his work."
_New York Paper._
"A sort of transatlantic impudence in his cleverness."
"His pictures do not claim to be accurate."
46.--THE LITTLE MAST.
"Form and line are of little account to him."
47.--QUIET Ca.n.a.l.
"Herr Whistler stellt ganz wunderbare Productionen aus, die auf Gesetze der Form und der Farbe gegrundet scheinen, die dem Uneingeweihten unverstandlich sind."--_Wiener Presse._
"This new manner of Mr. Whistler's is no improvement upon that which helped him to win his fame in this field of art."
48.--PALACES.
"The absence, seemingly, of any power of drawing the forms of water."[30]--_F. Wedmore._
[Note 30: See No. 30, _The Riva_.]
"He has never, so far as we know, attempted to transfer to copper any of the more ambitious works of the architect."--_Pall Mall Gazette._
"He has been content to show us what his eyes can see, and not what his hand can do."
_St. James's Gazette._
49.--SALUTE DAWN.
"Too sensational."--_Athenaeum._
"Pus.h.i.+ng a single artistic principle to the verge of affectation."--_Sidney Colvin._
50.--BEGGARS.
"In the character of humanity he has not time to be interested."--_Standard._
"General absence of tone."--_P. G. Hamerton._
51.--LAGOON: NOON.
"Years ago James Whistler was a person of high promise."--_F. Wedmore._
"What the art of Mr. Whistler yields is a tertium quid."[31]--_Sidney Colvin._
[Note 31: _REFLECTION:_
The quid of sweet and bitter fancy.
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