AIXcavating Robert Henri's 'The Art Spirit'

The Art Spirit by Robert Henri

Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art Generally, and on Appreciation

 

Compiled by Margery Ryerson; A New Issue with an Introduction by Forbes Watson; Copyright 1923, 1930 by J B Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, New York, London; New Illustrations Copyright, 1939, by J B Lippincott Co., Made in the United States of America, 14th Impression.

 

Venturing Into the Spirit of Art with Robert Henri

 

Robert Henri: Introduction by Forbes Watson…And Repercussions by Apryl Z Anderson

 

The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same: Endless Art

 

Raising Delectable Food for the Spirit from the Ashes of the Art Market

 

Strange Bedfellows and Other Arduous Conditions

 

Let Him Who Has Eyes See

 

Surprise Encounters in the 'Happiness of Life' and other Brownies

 

Art When Really Understood is the Province of Every Human Being

 

The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to see it through

 

An art student must be a master from the beginning; that is, he must be master of such as he has.

 

The sketch hunter has delightful days

 

Don’t worry about the rejections

 

Through Art mysterious bonds of understanding and of knowledge are established among men

 

If the artist is alive in you, you may meet Greco nearer than many people, also Plato, Shakespeare, the Greeks

 

An interest in the subject; something you want to say definitely about the subject; this is the first condition of a portrait

 

Those who cannot begin do not finish

 

Beauty in the Masses (Or Rearranging the Rubble)

 

What if Writing is my Painting? The Mystery of Mastery

 

Learning the Difference Between Bull’s-eye & Bullsh*t

Fresh Perspective (Peeping through the Smoke & Mirrors)

 

Getting the Greatest Possibility of Expression in the Larger Masses First: the Creator’s Priority