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Fine Arts
April 3, 1879 issue

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The article focuses on the exhibition of the Society of American Artists. An effort to demonstrate to the public, as at the Kurtz Gallery just closed, what are the primary effects sought by a proficient in art technique, is certain to be misunderstood by most spectators. These primary effects are in the nature of a workman's secret; their success or shortcoming is never truly viewed but by the professional. To an expert the masterly stroke tells everything; let the stroke be retouched and finished into softness and roundness, there is not only a waste of concise expression, but there is the inevitable opacity and dullness and color-loss always accompanying tormented workmanship.

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EXHIBITIONS; ART; ART museums; ARTISTS; WORKMANSHIP; SOCIETIES; UNITED States
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