Neville Weston Quotes

#1. The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or decoration, and so the content of art became much closer to that of music.

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#2. The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.

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#3. Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching

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#4. Such ideas made him [Constable] a precursor of the essentially twentieth-century view that art and life are inseparable and there is no such thing as ideal subject-matter.

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#5. The English artist likes line more than color or texture.

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#6. Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that marks the beginning of modern art.

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#7. [Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted.

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