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English: Gabriel von Max: Consulting the Fortune-teller

Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (find matches)
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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THE PENITENT MAGDALEN. FROM THE PICTURE BY GABRIEL MAX. von Chamlssos j)oem; then Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew, Looking at a Dead Child; the Child-murderess, and Christ Bringing-back to Life the Daugher of Jairus, where, that ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. -217 no doubting Tliomas may question her death, the artist has, with exquisite taste, placed acorrupting liy already fastened upon her arm !
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CONSULTING THE FORTUNE-TELLER. FROM THE PICTURE BY GABRIEL MAX. . What it is that pleases in Gabriel Max, it would be hard to say. Beyond a certain arti-ficial clearness of coloring, as if he used wax for a medium, and a choice of morbid colors, that 218 ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. degenerates into mannerism, there is little in his execution that would seem suited to pleaseartists, and it might be thought that even the public would tire of the sensational subjectshe delights in. His drawing is clumsy and careless; his forms heavy, his power of facial ex-pression almost nothing—yet, for a time, he seemed likely to become a power in the art-world.The subjects we have selected show him in as favorable a light as could be contrived; ThePenitent Magdalen, is a sweet-faced model, as capable of moral emotion as a canary-bird, andthe drawing of her arm, huge beyond reason, and of the hand with its impossible finger, showsthe carelessness of the artist, when seen undisguised by the luxuriou

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  • bookid:artartistsofourt04cook
  • bookyear:1888
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Cook__Clarence__1828_1900
  • booksubject:Painting
  • booksubject:Painters
  • bookpublisher:New_York__S__Hess
  • bookcontributor:Brandeis_University_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Boston_Library_Consortium_Member_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:76
  • bookcollection:Brandeis_University
  • bookcollection:blc
  • bookcollection:americana
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