The Salons of 1908: English Text (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Let it be honestly confessed the majority of artists no longer know how to draw, and their knowledge of the use of color is insuflicient. Our production is too rapid and too great. The private academies, which have so increased in numbers during the last thirty years, have greatly helped on this decadence. They have sent forth candidates successful candidates for a medal of third or of second class at the annual Salon; but they have produced no artists. We could cite the names of some who, the coveted reward once obtained, have been powerless to produce a work of value. Nearly all such come from the academies. Whilst the Ecole des beaux-arts, so often attacked, has turned out during the same time some who, if not good artists, are at least conscientious workmen. Still, it must be admitted that there, too, since some time is a falling-off.

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