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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