Landscape at the Royal Academy

Abstract

IN considering pictures from the point of view of science, one is glad to subscribe to what appears to be Ruskin's central doctrine, which may be put thus: a creative artist in portraying natural subjects, whether figure or landscape, should base his work, except in so far as it is meant to be symbolic, on a scientific realism expressing the love of Nature, and should carefully restrict the selection of particular effects to the suppression of others where this is rendered necessary by the limitations of the medium.