Earl Shinn, writing in the nation magazine in 1869, describes the terms of criticism that students have heard most often teachers at the School of Fine Arts, especially Jean -Léon Gérôme. These terms and concepts they represent, provide insight into the aesthetics that have been evaluated in an academic figure study. Citing Shinn:
"Too bland, weak and soft
This is said of the flesh, or, as the French say, the skin .. "
" inlaid.
it condemns our anatomy when he appeared to be patched on the surface rather than woven under the bones. "
"False sense.
This narrowing is not necessarily applied to a Della Cruscan * elegance but was heard on a Laocoön drawing expressing too much passion and movement instead of wonderfully taken of the original strength. "
" You did not enter the motion.
This is one of the most common of our difficulties; the word can be applied to the most inert things like scanning a lock of hair, putting a fold of drapery, or patterns on the cover; the expression of a supine hand, etc. "
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* Note :. These criticisms have nothing to do with the painting above. "Della Cruscan" refers to members of a late 18th century school of English writers of pretentious, affected, poetry flowery rhetoric.
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----- - ". ART-STUDY iN THE IMPERIAL SCHOOL IN PARIS "The nation , Volume 9, July 22, 1869, page 68. Earl Shinn
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