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Eight lectures which treat of such subjects as quality in color, direct brush work, drawing, imagination and the ideal.
“We have much that is obvious and elementary, and see Mr. Clausen frequently retiring behind the sheltering authority of Reynolds or Millet or Leonardo.”
| + − | Ath. 1906, 2: 699. D. 1. 650w. | |
| + + | Int. Studio. 30: 279. Ja. ’07. 60w. |
“Mr. Clausen is in fact an avowed disciple of Reynolds’s teaching. He finds in the famous ‘Discourses’ matter of pregnant interest and help for the student of to-day; and it is no small compliment to his own lectures that they recall, in their sanity and stimulating power, no less than in their clear and temperate style, their great example.”
| + + | Lond. Times. 5: 368. N. 2, ’06. 1230w. | |
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 158. Mr. 16, ’07. 220w. |
“He has hardly mastered Reynolds’ critical position. His method is simply to juxtapose the old and new in happy oblivion of their mutual exclusions. He has the artist’s lucky knack of seeing only what he wants to see, and the practical man’s gift of holding contradictory opinions. If Mr. Clausen brings us but a little way towards the solution of the problems which he raises, he has at least produced a modest and charming little book.”
| + − | Sat. R. 103: 84. Ja. 19, ’07. 1100w. |
“The views expressed here are sound and the thought is clear. There seems to be little wanting that is possessed by the literary critic, while there is much that only the painter can know.”