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others gained, power. The trials of Wilkie, the agonies of Haydon,
and above all the eccentric but inspired studies of Turner, have
produced decided changes. English Art has gained in natural vigor,
and in truthfulness of drawing and detail, what it has lost in
ideal power. It is a good thing to go back to Nature, and copy even
her stones correctly; this lays a foundation for genius to build
upon. Pre-Raphaelitism is already giving over its minute realness,
and beginning to clothe its leanness with the beauty of life and of
higher truth. It has done good; but it has not proved that those
things which God has made small and earthly are as beautiful as
those he has made great and heavenly. " There are glories
terrestrial and glories celestial." Purity is not sufficient for
greatness, or a little child would be morally greater than a tried
and victorious man. Passion, ideality, the divine life, must
breathe and glow in every truly great work of Art. I am Ruskinite
enough to think that Turner, in his best style, was as near an
approach to the great English painter as has yet been made. " But
after my words they spake not," said Job; and who wishes to enter
into an elaborate discussion of Turner after the Oxford oracle has
spoken. Turner did a great work, if it were only to have been the
occasion of Ruskin's marvelous eloquence. One has a perfect right,
however, to look, and see, and judge whether he likes or dislikes
Turner's paintings. There was, when I was in London, a fine
opportunity to do this at the Kensington Museum, popularly the "
Boilers," where there were three large rooms full of Turner's best
and worst pictures, arranged it is said by Mr. Ruskin himself. What
impressed me most in Turner's greatest pictures, those which belong
principally to his second and sound style, ...
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