The Technique of Painting (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt From The Technique Of Painting It Is Generally Agreed That The Bad Preservation Of Modern Works Is Due To The Bad Quality Of Modern Paints Look What Admirable Colours The Primitives Had! What Were Their Marvellous Secrets Who Will Give These Back To Us Such Are The Exclamations We Constantly Hear. Well, Artists Must Be Willing To Make Their Mea Culpa. As A Fact, If They Will Choose In Accordance With The Indications You Give, They Have At Their Disposal Colours A Thousand Times More Brilliant And More Enduring Than Those Used By The Old Masters. Defective Methods, Due To The Neglect Of The Technical Study Of Colours From The Day When The Artist Found All The Products He Wanted Ready For Use In A Shop, Are Responsible For All The Evil. About The Publisher Forgotten Books Publishes Hundreds Of Thousands Of Rare And Classic Books. Find More At Www.Forgottenbooks.Com This Book Is A Reproduction Of An Important Historical Work. Forgotten Books Uses StateOfTheArt Technology To Digitally Reconstruct The Work, Preserving The Original Format Whilst Repairing Imperfections Present In The Aged Copy. In Rare Cases, An Imperfection In The Original, Such As A Blemish Or Missing Page, May Be Replicated In Our Edition. We Do, However, Repair The Vast Majority Of Imperfections Successfully; Any Imperfections That Remain Are Intentionally Left To Preserve The State Of Such Historical Works.