Название: Persian drawings from the 14th through the 19th century (Drawings of the masters)
Автор: B. W Robinson
Издательство: Shorewood Publishers
Год: 1965
Формат: PDF
Размер: 20 Мб
Язык: английский / English

There are many Persian paintings in our museums. The finest of them seem to me as beautiful as anything else those buildings contain. All kinds of people are attracted to them, and some are fascinated. I suspect that colour is what first attracts: real gold, real malachite, true ultramarine, unmixed vermilion are beautiful in themselves. What fascinates us afterwards is something very complex.

There is, for instance, the loitering interest of narrative in childish form subtly organized in a very mature way, and a perfected draughtsmanship which yet has something in common with children's drawings and reminds us of something we can no longer see ourselves. A great wealth of detail not boring when explored, a certain tensity which so permeates the whole work as, for example, to make stiff figures look stiff with excitement, all these and other qualities undoubtedly affect us when we look at Persian paintings. Lovers of flowers have special reasons for lingering before them. They have all kinds of special and general interest and deserve their prestige.