It is impossible to reflect upon Frederic Remingtonrsquo;s art without thinking of the merely human elements. Remington became interested in the American Indian; probably because he became interested in the active; exciting life of the American Great Plains. The Indian appealed to him not in any histrionic way; not as a figure stepped out from the pages of Hiawatha; but just as a human subject. Remington hit upon this truth when he travelled west. What he found there was majesty that he did not make; solely; an affair of Indians in war paint and feathers.Remington knew how the light of the moon or of the stars is diffused; how softly and magically it envelops the landscape. There is a sort of artistic honesty in his nocturnal studies. He never set out to be romantic or melodramatic; just to develop his affinity and closeness to nature. The beauty of the painterrsquo;s motive; too; has communicated itself in his technique. His grey-green tones fading into velvety depths take on transparency; and in his handling of form he uses a touch as firm as need be. The determining influence in his career was that of the creative impulse; urging him to deal in the translation of visible things into pictorial terms.
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