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Mike, I have come back to look at that Dicksee painting at least ten times (and like Tom, finally swiped it).
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Linda,
It has become one of my favorites as well. It brings to mind the advice about not being concerned with "time spent" on your project. Some aspects of this painting must have taken a goodly while to execute. Well worth whatever time when you consider ...
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I am curious if you wouldn't mind what you have learned from your research.
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Enzie,
I've never really done much study of art history. Thanks to all the resources on the web you can pretty much create your own study program. I think the more you stare at these really good works of art the more the principles of design sink in. It certainly couldn't hurt.
Also, without a lot of academic training, you tend to stumble upon things over long periods of time which you suspect are good, true and beneficial. The more exposure you are able to get to the really good stuff gives you more opportunities validate your suspicions, or not. You begin to formulate and refine your "template" of what is valuable, not so valuable, and what is down right essential. I am particularly stubborn about accepting what I hear to be "absolutely essential," especially when my path has indicated something different. This stubbornness will sometimes work in my favor, sometimes not.
The study of art has revealed many things to me about myself and the way I take in information. Also, how my ways can differ from others and still be valid. I wish I'd understood some of these principles when I was younger, I'm sure I could have been more effective in many ways, and in many other aspects of my life.
Sir Frank Dicksee - The Mirror
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