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fol. 52v	'Of Ideas of Power, as they are dependent upon Execution' (Pt I, Sn II, Ch I)     (3.124-25)
      
      
      
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     from the canvass. we find the head shining like a distant lantern , instead
     of substantial or near .    < But even supposing the> result equally successful
     <the means never would affect us with the same pleasure which we receive
     from <the> Rubens .>  Yet I should not consider strangeness as a legitimate
 5   sense of pleasure .  That means which is most conducive to the
     end , should always be the most pleasurable - and that which is most
     conducive to the end can only be strange to the ignorance of the
     spectator.   This kind of pleasure is illegitimate therefore. because
     it implies & requires ignorance of art.
10   The six legitimate excellencies of execution are therefore p. 113.*
     #89#<Hence then will be commonly be found three steps {of advance} in the execution of
     an artist - <and {n} three grades of artists>.  At first he is childish & impotent .
     wanting all power of execution - tottering after an end he is unable to reach -
15   All the virtues are absent in this stage .  Claude is an example - who never
     emerged from it to the end of his life  .  In the second place - he has acquired the
     lower virtues of execution - decision - velocity & ease - & is ostentatious of them - to
     the
     injury of his subject - instance - Berghem &. Salvator - <Rubens . Rem>
     In the third .   he has attained the best *…..* of execution  simplicity & mystery.
20   and out of an untraceable - inimitable negligence & confusion of touch - attains the >
fol. 53r	 'Of Ideas of Power, as they are dependent upon Execution' (Pt I, Sn II, Ch I)     (3.123f)
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     #90#< and observe it in the act of creating - we must be thinking more of the pallet than
     of the line - more of the hand than of the thought.  Simplicity and mystery
     are fit handmaidens of truth - and not only assist - but compel<s> the mind .
     to forget all means - efforts - and fix itself on the Conception -
 5   But if the ^{evident & marked} presence of the other virtues be a sign of inferior
     									art - their felt
     absence is a defect - even in the highest - otherwise they would scarcely
     be worth the name of virtues .  That which is felt to be slow - to be
     undecided, <or> infirm - <and to be> {or} unnecessary - is wrong and painful -
     										however
     great the conception may be .  Whatever is unnecessary injures - and
10   whatever is weak - is forceful.  Besides .  the absence of the virtues draws
     even more attention to the means - and {thereby} destroys the effect of their end
     ^ {in a greater degree} than their too <mark*> evident presence.   <The other
     									vices of execution
     Keeping [sic] three great principles in view>
     The Vices of execution are.  First.  When Truth is sacrificed to any of the
15   others .  It cannot be sacrificed to simplicity or mystery - which are a
     part of it - but it may be - and constantly is - to velocity & decision.
     These qualities are so captivating.  <in themselves> {& so easily seen} - and gain so
     									much praise
     to the artist - while truth - that delicate degree of it which is given up
     to them - is so inappreciable [sic] by the multitude of spectators - and so difficult
20   of attainment . by the artist - that it is <very natural> {no wonder} that an <excellence>
     									{effort} so >

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