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by a close examination of the way these foreground shadows are cast, why, for example, does the shadow strike sharp across the pathway and yet become blurred and faint as it reaches the lawn, except that had its form been definite throughout, as shadows cast by the sun must be, it would have made an obtrusive patch of light across the bottom of the picture? In short, Turner's aim in the "Mortlake" has passed beyond the forcible representation of natural appearances, which, subject to the conditions of oil painting prevalent in his youth, had been his earlier ideal, and has advanced many stages on the road to an ideal of a different kind. symbol in green ink: Ŧ

symbol in green ink: Ŧ C.J. Holmes - Burlington Magazine.

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