I suppo Velasquez was a better painter than El Grebsp;but stales one''s admiration for him: the Cretan, nsual and tragibsp;proffers the mystery of his soul like a standing sacrifibsp;The artist, painter, poet, or musi, by his decoration, sublime or beautiful, satisfies the aesthetibsp;n; but that is akin to the xual instinbsp;and shares its barbarity: he lays before you also the greater gift of himlf. To pursue his cret has something of the fasation of a detective story. It is a riddle whibsp;shares with the univer the merit of having no answer. The most insignifit of Strid''s works suggests a personality whibsp;is strange, tormented, and plex; and it is this surely whibsp;prevents even tho who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this whibsp;has excited so curious an i in his life and character.
It was not till four years after Strid''s death that Mauribsp;Huret wrote that artibsp;in the Mercure de Franbsp;whibsp;rescued the unknown painter from oblivion and blazed the trail whibsp;succeeding writers, with more or less docility, have followed. For a long time no critibsp;has enjoyed in Franbsp;a more intestable authority, and it was impossible not to be impresd by the claims he made; they emed extravagant; but later judgments have firmed his estimate, and the reputation of Charles Strid is now firmly established on the lines whibsp;he laid down.
I suppo Velasquez was a better painter than El Grebsp;but stales one''s admiration for him: the Cretan, nsual and tragibsp;proffers the mystery of his soul like a standing sacrifibsp;The artist, painter, poet, or musi, by his decoration, sublime or beautiful, satisfies the aesthetibsp;n; but that is akin to the xual instinbsp;and shares its barbarity: he lays before you also the greater gift of himlf. To pursue his cret has something of the fasation of a detective story. It is a riddle whibsp;shares with the univer the merit of having no answer. The most insignifit of Strid''s works suggests a personality whibsp;is strange, tormented, and plex; and it is this surely whibsp;prevents even tho who do not like his pictures from being indifferent to them; it is this whibsp;has excited so curious an i in his life and character.
It was not till four years after Strid''s death that Mauribsp;Huret wrote that artibsp;in the Mercure de Franbsp;whibsp;rescued the unknown painter from oblivion and blazed the trail whibsp;succeeding writers, with more or less docility, have followed. For a long time no critibsp;has enjoyed in Franbsp;a more intestable authority, and it was impossible not to be impresd by the claims he made; they emed extravagant; but later judgments have firmed his estimate, and the reputation of Charles Strid is now firmly established on the lines whibsp;he laid down.