The precise quality that renders the sketch the highest expression of the idea is not the suppression of details, but their subordination to the great sweeping lines that come before everything else in making the impression. The greatest difficulty therefore, when it comes to tackling the picture, is this subordination of details which, nevertheless, make up the composition and are the very warp and weft of the picture itself. 23 April 1854 [trans. Lucy Norton]
Ce qui fait precisement de ce croquis l'expression par excellence de l'idee , c'est, non pas la suppression des details, mais leur complete subordination aux grand traits qui doivent saisir avant tout. La plus grande difficulte consiste donc a retrouner dans le tableau a cet effacement des details, lesquels pourtant sont la composition , la trame meme du tableau.....
Paris 23 avril, 1854
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- Aletha Kuschan
- Born in Washington, DC, the artist has resided for many years in the metro area and been a frequent visitor to Washington’s museums, where she has studied old and modern masters. She graduated from the University of Maryland with honors in English literature. Three large commissioned works she painted can be seen in the City Hall of Annapolis, Md. She is a contributor to Edible Chesapeake magazine.
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