Art Out-of-Doors 



by incessant training have been developed 

 to a still higher degree of power. 



In the study of form especially, a famil- 

 iarity with landscape-painting is of infinite 

 value. The color-scheme of Nature never 

 remains for an hour the same and, whatever 

 phase of it may be chosen, must be trans- 

 posed, transmuted, before it can be put upon 

 canvas. Therefore we must go to Nature to 

 learn all that beautiful color may mean. 

 But forms are less variable and can be more 

 faithfully painted ; and the easiest way to 

 cultivate a true appreciation of them is to 

 study good landscape-pictures. A painter 

 who has poetic power may help us very 

 much by idealizing the suggestions and 

 rough - draughts of Nature, and expressing 

 her conceptions more perfectly than, in this 

 warring world, she is often able to express 

 them. Colors as beautiful as those we see 

 every day in Nature we seldom see approached 

 in paint ; but forms and compositions more 

 perfect than those we are apt to find alive 

 we constantly find on canvas. 



This is true even of the pictures of to- 

 day, although to-day composition is less 

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