In the Land of Temples
Aetna over Taormina; Theatre Segesta; Temple over Cañon; Segesta Girgenti: Temple to Temple; Columns of Castor & Pollux; Sunrise Behind Temple of Concord; Temple by Sea-Temple of Concord; Temple of Concord; Columns of Temple of Juno. Paestum: Morning Mist; Evening. Corinth: Towards Gulf; Acro-Corinth. Olympia from Hillside; Temple of Jupiter Evening; Acropolis from Temple of Jupiter Athens; Way up to Acropolis; Down from Acropolis; Sunrise over Acropolis; Storm behind Acropolis; Propylaea; Athens; Parthenon: Portico; from Gateway; Façade. Sunset; Athens: Fallen Column; Little Fête; Great Fête; Temple of Nike; Odeon; Street of Tombs; Eleusis: Pavement of Temple; Aegina: Mountain Top & more
I WENT to Greece for two reasons: because I wanted to see Greece & what remained of her glory-to see if the greatest work of the past impressed me as much as the greatest work of the present-& to try to find out which was greater- more inspiring; second because I was told by a Boston authority that I was nothing but a ragtime sketcher couldn’t see Greek art & couldn’t draw it if I did.
I’ve been there-and did what I saw in my own way. To me Greece was wonderful & was beautiful but anyone can see that-and can rave over it with appropriate quotations from appropriate authors. I know no Greek & have scarce read a translation. I say this regretfully-I wish I had-I should have seen more. I know however if I hadn’t before seen the greatest art of the rest of Europe I could not have been so moved as I was by what I saw in the Land of Temples the land whence we have derived most of our ideas ideals & inspirations.
I drew the things that interested me-and it was & is a great delight to me to be told by those who have some of them spent their lives studying Greeks & Greece that I’ve given the character of the country. What impressed me most was the great feeling of the Greeks for site in placing their temples & shrines in the landscape-so that they not only became a part of it but it leads up to them. & though the same architectural forms were used each temple was so placed that it told from afar by sea or land a goal for pilgrims-a shrine for worshippers to draw near to-yet each had a character of its own-always the same yet ever differing. I know I am sorry to say little of proportion of scale of heights of lengths but what I saw with my own eyes was the way these monuments were part of the country-never stuck about anyhow-always composed-always different-and they were built with grand ideas of composition impressiveness & arrangement. Has there been any change in the black forest before Aegina-the “wine dark sea” at Sunium-the “shining rocks” at Delphi-the grim cliffs of the Acropolis?-these prove in their various ways that the Greeks were great artists.
These were the things I saw. Had I known more I might have seen less-for it seems to me that most artists who have gone to Greece have been so impressed with what they have been told to see that-there are of course great exceptions-they have looked at the land with a foot-rule a translation & a dictionary & they have often been interfered with by these aids. I went ignorant of where to go-or what to see. When I got to Athens I fell among friends who answered my only question that “I wanted to see temples that stood up.” They told me where they were-and there they were. & for this information which resulted in my seeing these sites & making these lithographs I want to thank many people, above all Mr. R. M. Dawkins late Director of the British School at Athens who now that he has seen the work agrees with others that it has something of the character & romance of the country. If it has those qualities they are what I went out to see-and having seen them-and I’ve tried to express them-I know I can see more if I’ve the chance in the future in the Wonder of Work of my time for in our great works to-day we are only carrying on the tradition of the great works of the past. I’ve seen both & it is so.
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I WENT to Greece for two reasons: because I wanted to see Greece & what remained of her glory-to see if the greatest work of the past impressed me as much as the greatest work of the present-& to try to find out which was greater- more inspiring; second because I was told by a Boston authority that I was nothing but a ragtime sketcher couldn’t see Greek art & couldn’t draw it if I did.
I’ve been there-and did what I saw in my own way. To me Greece was wonderful & was beautiful but anyone can see that-and can rave over it with appropriate quotations from appropriate authors. I know no Greek & have scarce read a translation. I say this regretfully-I wish I had-I should have seen more. I know however if I hadn’t before seen the greatest art of the rest of Europe I could not have been so moved as I was by what I saw in the Land of Temples the land whence we have derived most of our ideas ideals & inspirations.
I drew the things that interested me-and it was & is a great delight to me to be told by those who have some of them spent their lives studying Greeks & Greece that I’ve given the character of the country. What impressed me most was the great feeling of the Greeks for site in placing their temples & shrines in the landscape-so that they not only became a part of it but it leads up to them. & though the same architectural forms were used each temple was so placed that it told from afar by sea or land a goal for pilgrims-a shrine for worshippers to draw near to-yet each had a character of its own-always the same yet ever differing. I know I am sorry to say little of proportion of scale of heights of lengths but what I saw with my own eyes was the way these monuments were part of the country-never stuck about anyhow-always composed-always different-and they were built with grand ideas of composition impressiveness & arrangement. Has there been any change in the black forest before Aegina-the “wine dark sea” at Sunium-the “shining rocks” at Delphi-the grim cliffs of the Acropolis?-these prove in their various ways that the Greeks were great artists.
These were the things I saw. Had I known more I might have seen less-for it seems to me that most artists who have gone to Greece have been so impressed with what they have been told to see that-there are of course great exceptions-they have looked at the land with a foot-rule a translation & a dictionary & they have often been interfered with by these aids. I went ignorant of where to go-or what to see. When I got to Athens I fell among friends who answered my only question that “I wanted to see temples that stood up.” They told me where they were-and there they were. & for this information which resulted in my seeing these sites & making these lithographs I want to thank many people, above all Mr. R. M. Dawkins late Director of the British School at Athens who now that he has seen the work agrees with others that it has something of the character & romance of the country. If it has those qualities they are what I went out to see-and having seen them-and I’ve tried to express them-I know I can see more if I’ve the chance in the future in the Wonder of Work of my time for in our great works to-day we are only carrying on the tradition of the great works of the past. I’ve seen both & it is so.
In the Land of Temples
Aetna over Taormina; Theatre Segesta; Temple over Cañon; Segesta Girgenti: Temple to Temple; Columns of Castor & Pollux; Sunrise Behind Temple of Concord; Temple by Sea-Temple of Concord; Temple of Concord; Columns of Temple of Juno. Paestum: Morning Mist; Evening. Corinth: Towards Gulf; Acro-Corinth. Olympia from Hillside; Temple of Jupiter Evening; Acropolis from Temple of Jupiter Athens; Way up to Acropolis; Down from Acropolis; Sunrise over Acropolis; Storm behind Acropolis; Propylaea; Athens; Parthenon: Portico; from Gateway; Façade. Sunset; Athens: Fallen Column; Little Fête; Great Fête; Temple of Nike; Odeon; Street of Tombs; Eleusis: Pavement of Temple; Aegina: Mountain Top & more
I WENT to Greece for two reasons: because I wanted to see Greece & what remained of her glory-to see if the greatest work of the past impressed me as much as the greatest work of the present-& to try to find out which was greater- more inspiring; second because I was told by a Boston authority that I was nothing but a ragtime sketcher couldn’t see Greek art & couldn’t draw it if I did.
I’ve been there-and did what I saw in my own way. To me Greece was wonderful & was beautiful but anyone can see that-and can rave over it with appropriate quotations from appropriate authors. I know no Greek & have scarce read a translation. I say this regretfully-I wish I had-I should have seen more. I know however if I hadn’t before seen the greatest art of the rest of Europe I could not have been so moved as I was by what I saw in the Land of Temples the land whence we have derived most of our ideas ideals & inspirations.
I drew the things that interested me-and it was & is a great delight to me to be told by those who have some of them spent their lives studying Greeks & Greece that I’ve given the character of the country. What impressed me most was the great feeling of the Greeks for site in placing their temples & shrines in the landscape-so that they not only became a part of it but it leads up to them. & though the same architectural forms were used each temple was so placed that it told from afar by sea or land a goal for pilgrims-a shrine for worshippers to draw near to-yet each had a character of its own-always the same yet ever differing. I know I am sorry to say little of proportion of scale of heights of lengths but what I saw with my own eyes was the way these monuments were part of the country-never stuck about anyhow-always composed-always different-and they were built with grand ideas of composition impressiveness & arrangement. Has there been any change in the black forest before Aegina-the “wine dark sea” at Sunium-the “shining rocks” at Delphi-the grim cliffs of the Acropolis?-these prove in their various ways that the Greeks were great artists.
These were the things I saw. Had I known more I might have seen less-for it seems to me that most artists who have gone to Greece have been so impressed with what they have been told to see that-there are of course great exceptions-they have looked at the land with a foot-rule a translation & a dictionary & they have often been interfered with by these aids. I went ignorant of where to go-or what to see. When I got to Athens I fell among friends who answered my only question that “I wanted to see temples that stood up.” They told me where they were-and there they were. & for this information which resulted in my seeing these sites & making these lithographs I want to thank many people, above all Mr. R. M. Dawkins late Director of the British School at Athens who now that he has seen the work agrees with others that it has something of the character & romance of the country. If it has those qualities they are what I went out to see-and having seen them-and I’ve tried to express them-I know I can see more if I’ve the chance in the future in the Wonder of Work of my time for in our great works to-day we are only carrying on the tradition of the great works of the past. I’ve seen both & it is so.
I WENT to Greece for two reasons: because I wanted to see Greece & what remained of her glory-to see if the greatest work of the past impressed me as much as the greatest work of the present-& to try to find out which was greater- more inspiring; second because I was told by a Boston authority that I was nothing but a ragtime sketcher couldn’t see Greek art & couldn’t draw it if I did.
I’ve been there-and did what I saw in my own way. To me Greece was wonderful & was beautiful but anyone can see that-and can rave over it with appropriate quotations from appropriate authors. I know no Greek & have scarce read a translation. I say this regretfully-I wish I had-I should have seen more. I know however if I hadn’t before seen the greatest art of the rest of Europe I could not have been so moved as I was by what I saw in the Land of Temples the land whence we have derived most of our ideas ideals & inspirations.
I drew the things that interested me-and it was & is a great delight to me to be told by those who have some of them spent their lives studying Greeks & Greece that I’ve given the character of the country. What impressed me most was the great feeling of the Greeks for site in placing their temples & shrines in the landscape-so that they not only became a part of it but it leads up to them. & though the same architectural forms were used each temple was so placed that it told from afar by sea or land a goal for pilgrims-a shrine for worshippers to draw near to-yet each had a character of its own-always the same yet ever differing. I know I am sorry to say little of proportion of scale of heights of lengths but what I saw with my own eyes was the way these monuments were part of the country-never stuck about anyhow-always composed-always different-and they were built with grand ideas of composition impressiveness & arrangement. Has there been any change in the black forest before Aegina-the “wine dark sea” at Sunium-the “shining rocks” at Delphi-the grim cliffs of the Acropolis?-these prove in their various ways that the Greeks were great artists.
These were the things I saw. Had I known more I might have seen less-for it seems to me that most artists who have gone to Greece have been so impressed with what they have been told to see that-there are of course great exceptions-they have looked at the land with a foot-rule a translation & a dictionary & they have often been interfered with by these aids. I went ignorant of where to go-or what to see. When I got to Athens I fell among friends who answered my only question that “I wanted to see temples that stood up.” They told me where they were-and there they were. & for this information which resulted in my seeing these sites & making these lithographs I want to thank many people, above all Mr. R. M. Dawkins late Director of the British School at Athens who now that he has seen the work agrees with others that it has something of the character & romance of the country. If it has those qualities they are what I went out to see-and having seen them-and I’ve tried to express them-I know I can see more if I’ve the chance in the future in the Wonder of Work of my time for in our great works to-day we are only carrying on the tradition of the great works of the past. I’ve seen both & it is so.
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| BN ID: | 2940015241082 |
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| Publisher: | Denise Henry |
| Publication date: | 08/26/2012 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 46 KB |
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