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Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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ntific accuracy, none could be better judges than such men as Agassiz, Guyot, and Desor,but it may be allowed that they were hardly unprejudiced judges of the sentiment of thesepictures, since miich less would have served to satisfy these strangers in a strange landhungering for home. While the merit of Calames Alpine studies may be freely acknowl-edged: the good drawing and the skilful composition, the artist never seems able to ex-press in any adequate degree the grandeur and sublimity of the Alps, nor even their deso-lation. The fault we find with his engravings and etchings, as well as with his pictures, isthat they are too pretty, and seen in any number they weary us by a monotony with whichthe artists mannerisms have as much to do as his want of invention. The trees, the rocks,the cascades, are ever the same, and when we have seen and studied any dozen of these Alpinelandscapes we have seen all. Julius Makak—pronounced Marsch—a Bohemian, born in Leitomischl, in 1835, reminds
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,c rt.^ v-1^ .%*- ^vkK.©v ^o^^\-5^ A. LAND S CAPE. FHOM THE PAINTING BY JULIUS MA) LMARJIESS NDWYDRIC ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 281 las sometimes of Calame in his choice of subjects, but lie has a far less academic way oftreating them. This will appear in his Waterfall as compared with the Swiss mastersAlpine Landscape; the wildness and desolation of the scenery depicted with great force,but without exaggeration by Marak, is in striking contrast with the tameness of Calamesconception, and the smoothness of his execution. Marak is, however, so essentially different

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