Vulgar words in Promenades of an Impressionist (Page 1)
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He had little talent, less taste, for the florid decorative art of Rubens and the Venetians; but give him a simple, human theme (not pretty or sentimental) and he recreated it, not merely interpreted the scene; so that Las Meninas, The Spinners (Las Hilanderas), the hunting pictures, the various portraits of royalty, buffoons, beggars, outcasts, are the chronicles of his time, and he its master psychologist.
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A snag gleams white in his sly, thirsty mouth.
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His personages, all disillusionised, vaguely suffer, make love without desire--disillusioned souls all.
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These brigands and cut-throats, pimps and pickpurses are set before us without bravado, without the genteel glaze of the timid painter, without an attempt to call a prostitute a _cocotte_.
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One of his magnificent sayings and one appreciated by the entire artistic tribe was his ejaculation: "Damn paint!"
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There are the average number of Dutch Italianate painters, Jan Both and the rest, men who employed southern backgrounds and improvised bastard Italian figures.
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To know what a master of physiognomy he was we need only study his Mary Queen of England, the Buffoon of the Beneventas, the Philip II, and the various heads of royal and noble born dames.
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The dwarfs, buffoons, the Æsop and the Menippus are the result of an effortless art.