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24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Correspondent, Atlas, _chéri_--far from me to justify spelling of my own! But who could possibly have supposed an orthographer loose! Evidently too"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sixty-three feet seven inches!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "How, sir, cr... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he says, lightly paraphrasing Alfred de Musset,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--already with difficulty gasping its gentle breath--himself an amazing"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "TOUR."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "S---- C---- in the provinces"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Hoboken"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remarque"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Remarque."
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "If beauty were the only province of art, neither painters nor etchers would find anything to occupy them in the foul stream that washes the London wharfs"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Woman in White"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Woman in White"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Corot is one of the most celebrated landscape painters in France. The first impression of an Englishman, on looking at his works, is that they are the sketches of an amateur; it is difficult at first sight to consider them the serious performances of an artist.... I _understand ... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A parallel anecdote is narrated by Mr. Haden: 'The most exquisite series of plates which Whistler ever did--his sixteen Thames subjects--were originally printed by a steel-plate printer, and so badly that the owner thought the plates were worn out, and sold them for a small sum ... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Delatre, then at his prime, had himself printed these etchings--a fact which, amusingly enough, Mr. Haden admits further on, in direct contradiction to his first broad statement. Moreover, I had myself pulled proofs of them all; indeed, one in the set of sixteen plates, a drypoi... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Haden's anecdote."
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Art Critic"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "I used inverted commas because it is the custom to do so when making a quotation. I quoted Mr. Haden's own words from one of his lectures on etching, and they will be found printed, as I quoted them, in Cassell's _Magazine of Art_. ... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Out of their own mouths shall ye judge them."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "His pictures form a dangerous precedent."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Another crop of Mr. Whist... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Pictures in darkness are contradictions in terms."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "There is seldom in his Etchings any large arrangement of light and shade."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Short, scratchy lines."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "T... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, little new came of it, in etching; nothing new that was beautiful."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Amazing!"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "This Archimago of the iconographic aoraton, or graphiology of the Hidden."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"v... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Mast and the Little Mast are dependent for much of their interest, on the drawing of festoons of cord hanging from unequal heights."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "The artist's present principles seem to deny him any effective chiaroscuro."
},
{
"from": "h... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Disastrous failures."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Failures that are complete and failures that are partial."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A publicity rarely bestowed upon failures at all."
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Voilà ce que l'on d... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Jeux Innocents"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of reflectors, he promises to display in his own studio, to his friends,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "under all the appropriate circumstances that might be expected of a"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"v... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Case of Mr. Waldemar."
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Not at all! By this sort of thing was he known among us, poor chap--and so was he our fresh gladness and continued surprise."
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Do not all remember how we leaped for joy at the reading of it?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Even Atlas himself laughed aloud, and, handicapped as he is with the World, and weighted with wisdom, danced upon his plinth, a slow measure of reckless acquiescence, as I ... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "There is one that laboureth, and taketh pains, and maketh haste, and is so much the more behind."
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "To the Electors of the Slade Professor of Fine Art for the University of Cambridge.--My Lord and Gentlemen,--I beg to submit my name as a candidate for the Slade Professorship, and enclose herewith a few testimonials ... I have also received favourable letters from the following... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I have worked at the subject continually in Italy, having for that purpose travelled and stayed in that country--at least a dozen times. I have also painted in France, Germany, and Belgium, in which last-mentioned country I was in a portrait painter's studio."
},
{
"from... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "For the last ten years I have written _every article upon art_ which has appeared in the _Spectator_ newspaper"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "In 1880, I wrote a critical life of Giotto"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "GIOTTO BY 'ARRY"
},
{
"from":... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Here once dwelt the gentle Master of all that is flippant and fine in Art, some anxious student, reading, fall out with Providence in his vain effort to reconcile such joyous reputation with the dank and hopeless appearance of this"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Harmony in Grey and Gold"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why not call it 'Trotty Veck,' and sell it for a round harmony of golden guineas?"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Yankee Doodle, or"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Partant pour la Syrie."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Arrangement in Grey and Black."
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Newmarket"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Les points sur les i"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "What good shall it do?"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the fifteenth century, and"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "C minor Symphony."
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Beware! This matter does indeed concern us. We also have our part in all true Art!--for, remember the 'one touch of Nature' that 'makes the whole world kin.'"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "that calls aloud to the response of each--that explains the popularity of the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Bull of Paul Potter--that excuses the price of Murillo's"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Conception"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "ha... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--he has now grafted Edgar Poe on the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "tree of the early American Market in"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "of dry goods and sympathy; and"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "to"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "than the _naïveté_ of"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "mission is to find"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and have left to"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "the discovery of _"
},
{
"from": "... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "National Art Exhibition"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Oscar, you must really keep outside 'the radius'!"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A poor thing, Oscar!--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "for once, I suppose"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Saturday Reviler. This time it is not to break upon the wheel some poor butterfly of a lady traveller or novelist, but to scoff at an aged painter o... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "art critic, if he ever saw this exhibition at all, didn't go to see these pictures. As Goethe says,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "and he went to see the"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Constant Reader,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "of modern progress and civilization, here do I, in full Paris, _à l'heure de l'absinthe_, upon mischievous discussion intent, call aloud for"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I say to the brilliant brethren g... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "English Art."
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Sapeur of modern progress,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Sapem"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The 'Peacock' drawing-room of a well-to-do shipowner, of Liverpool, at Queen's Gate, London, is hand-painted, representing the noble bird with wings expanded, painted by an Associate of the Royal Academy, at a cost of £7000, and fortunate in claiming his daughter as his bride, a... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The next work, put upon the easel, was a 'Nocturne in blue and silver,' by J. M. Whistler. It was received with hisses."
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "there is but one flesh, that shall do service under all circumstances, whether the person painted be in the soft light of the room or out in the glare of the open. The one aim of the unsuspecting painter is to make his man"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "in colour they are! how"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "how"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ten o'Clock,"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "British Artist says that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Mr. Whistler denies that the recent policy of the Society of British Artists was the cause of the secession of Messrs. Reid and Burr from the ranks of that Society."
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and straightway goes further himself, and scarcely fares better, when, with a quaintness of _naïveté_ rare at this moment, he proposes that"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "be"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "matters but little; but if the policy of your correspondent's"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Catching on"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Harmony,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Caprice, and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Note. Beneath the latter Mr. Whistler has written,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Horsley _soit qui ... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Art Critic should distinguish between the real and the"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Notes on the staircase, and in the vestibule, are not"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "... while"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "PALL MALL GAZETTE"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I am, dear Sir, Very faithfully,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "J. MCNEILL WHISTLER."
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": ""
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "PRINTING HOUSE SQUARE, Dec. 1, 1886."
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Amazing! _Mes compliments!_"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "J. MCNEILL WHISTLER."
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The state of affairs? said Mr. Whistler, in his light and airy way, raising his eyebrows and twinkling his eyes, as if it were all the best possible fun in the world;"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "You do not then consider the Society as out of date? You do not think... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Then how do you explain the bitterness of all the opposition?"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Alfred Stevens, Theodore Roussel, Nelson Maclean, Macnab, Waldo Story, A. Ludovici, jun., Sidney Starr, Francis James, W. A. Rixon, Aubrey Hunt, Moffatt P. Lindner, E. G. Girardot, Ludby, Arthur Hill, Llewellyn, W. Christian Symons, C. Wyllie, A. F. Grace, J. E. Grace, J. D. Wat... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Why should these people do other than delight in me?--Why should they perish rather than forgive the one who had thrust upon them honour and success?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "And the moral of it all?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The organisation... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "PALL MALL GAZETTE:"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Royal Society of British Artists and its Future--An Interview with the New President"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The sales of the Society during the year 1881 were under, whatever that may mean,"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Chairman of the Board-school in his own district,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Champion chess-player of Surrey,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "A member of the Diocesan Council of Rochester,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Fellow of the Soci... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "In 1881, under £5000; 1882, under £6000; 1883, under £7000; 1884, under £8000, until, under the baneful reign of terror and Whistler in 1885--"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "than that put forth by the Cyclist of his suburb, and we arrive at the, for once, not unamusing"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Four thousand pounds! down it went--£3000--£2000--the figures are Wyke's--and this season, the ignominious"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Congratulations upon dignity maintained as Artists left in charge of a brother Artist's work, and upon graceful bearing as officers toward their late President."
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Well, Mr. Whistler, they say they only painted out your butterfly from the signboard, and changed the date. What do you say?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "What do I say? That they have been guilty of an act of villainous Vandalism."
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I shall be justified, and it will be boldly denied by some dainty student that the delicate butterfly was _ever_"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "at the instigation of their president, as he unblushingly acknowledges, and will here distinctly state that the"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "_did not_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and that"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "_did not_"
},
... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and myself placed,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "_new_"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "upon it--in proper relation to the decorative scheme of the whole design, of which it formed naturally an all-important feature. The date was that of the Society's Ro... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Now, Mr. Blank, would you tell me how you came to prefer tones to papers?"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Here the walls used to be covered with a paper of a sombre green, which oppressed me and made me sad,"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "I assure you the effect of a room full of people in evening dress seen against the yellow ground is extraordinary, and, added Blank,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Then do I understand that you would remove all wall papers?"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value":... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Many, when a thing was lent them, reckoned it to be found, and put them to trouble that helped them."
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You will blow your brains out, of course. Pigott has shown you what to do under the circumstances, and you know your way to Spain. Good-bye!"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Law of '84,"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Mr. Herbert Vivian's Reminiscences,"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Decay of Lying, Mr. Wilde has deliberately and incautiously incorporated,"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "a portion of the well-remembered letter in which, after admitting his rare appreciation and amazing memory, I acknowledge that"
},
{
"from": "human",
... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "You, Oscar, can go further, and with fresh effrontery, that will bring you the envy of all criminal _confrères_, unblushingly boast, 'Moi, je prends _son_ bien là où je le trouve!'"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "Plagiarism"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "whose"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for him"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": ""
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "and"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "he claims me as his"
},
{
"from"... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "The Decay of Lying"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ten o'Clock,"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ten o'Clock,"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "He points out that"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Your Reviewer, who complains that I have allowed"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "It will be observed, he says naïvely,"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "--herein he is completely right, this is absolutely the impression I did seek to create--"
},
{
... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Ten o'Clock to the press, or to anybody else excepting yourself. The work is still in the printers' hands, and we have for a long time past been advertising it only as"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "for whose judgment or whose"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "If"
},
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Cups and fans and screens, and Hamilton vases, and figurines of Tanagra, and other"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "--and the gist of the whole argume... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "therefore, confessedly does not appeal to the intelligence, emotions, mind, and heart of the Bard even when aided by the"
}
] |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "may gratefully and respectfully recognize his accurate apprehension and his felicitous application of well-nigh the most hackneyed verse in all the range of Shakespeare's--which yet is almost invariably misconstrued and misapplied--"
},
{
"from": "gpt",
"value": "One... |
24650 | Unknown Title | Unknown Author | [
{
"from": "human",
"value": "Art and Joy go together,"
}
] |
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