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- Title
Tom Roberts, Charles Conder, and Pictorial Realism.
- Authors
Matthen, Mohan
- Abstract
Tom Roberts' Coogee Beach is a topographically meticulous rendering of a well‐known landmark. Michael Newall suggests that it is an exact rendering of the colour. According to him, a moth could camouflage itself on Robert's brushstrokes. This seems to me mistaken on two fronts. First, colour is not atomistically rendered: what the eye sees is not the same at a point as the paint that is put down there. Second, realism is not achieved point by point, each brush‐stroke matching the colour of what it attempts to reproduce. Roberts' success has to be judged next to the sun‐flattened look of a bright summer's day, not leaf by leaf.
- Subjects
ROBERTS, Tom, 1856-1931; NEWALL, Michael; ART &; camouflage; BRUSHWORK; COLOR
- Publication
Curator, 2019, Vol 62, Issue 1, p61
- ISSN
0011-3069
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cura.12288