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“A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.”

Quote by Marsden Hartley

Book:Adventures in the Arts

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Adventures in the Arts

This book delves into the diverse world of arts, examining different mediums such as painting, sculpture, music, and literature. It provides insights into the historical context, techniques, and the impact of art on society. more

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Marsden Hartley

Marsden Hartley was an American painter recognized for his expressive and frequently abstract artworks. Born on January 4, 1877, in Lewiston, Maine, Hartley's artistic journey began with a focus on rural landscapes and traditional American themes. His style later evolved into a distinctive one, marked by vivid colors and geometric shapes, setting him apart from his contemporaries. Hartley's art often mirrored his personal experiences and emotional states, and he is regarded as a leading figure in American modernism. He passed away on September 2, 1943. more

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“(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.”

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“It is the incongruous thing in my entire life, this isolation.. ... My work requires it - but I myself have no need or use for it - Perhaps once on a time I found isolation imperative - I think all chrysalides do - all embryos go for the underside of the leaf in the time of body-change preparing for the final reassertion -resurrection - the establishment of the entity. But now I've come up tot the outside of my casements.”

Thinking Needs Use Body Found Finals Come Up Isolation Establishment Resurrection Entity Preparing Leafs Imperatives Embryos Tots Body Change

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“They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the way they have begun; they have voiced most of all the imperative need of essential personalism, of direct expression of direct experience.”

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Book:Adventures in the Arts

Source: Adventures in the Arts

“I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.”

Firsts Saws Essence Landscape Mysticism

Book:My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915

Source: My Dear Stieglitz: Letters of Marsden Hartley and Alfred Stieglitz, 1912-1915

“By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. ...we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things.”

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“The essential of a real picture is that the things which occur in it occur to him in his peculiarly personal fashion.. ..the idea of modernity is but a new attachment of things universal - a fresh relationship to the courses of the sun and to the living swing of the earth - a new fire of affection for the living essence present everywhere.”

Ideas Real Earth Courses Sun Fire Fashion Essentials Essence Universal Affection Attachment Swings Modernity

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“Every painter must traverse for himself that distance from Paris to Aix (where Paul Cézanne worked a lot, fh) or from Venice to Toledo (where El Greco painted a lot, fh). Expression is for one knowing its own pivot. Every expressor relates solely to himself - that is the concern of the individualist.”

Knowing Expression Concern Distance Painter Relate Paris Venice Traverse Toledo

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