... reducing both formand colour to a kind of vague boss and vague sheen, such as they really present in given effects of light, asomething which we define roughly as eminently modern in the painting ... bordering upon the domain of realism. Hence they can raise into interest, by themere power of colour, many an insignificant type; yet even they are incapable of dealing with absoluteugliness, ... to match which in beauty you must think of some rarelyseen veined and jaspered rainy twilight, or opal-tinted hazy winter morning. Ugliness, nay, repulsiveness,vanish, subdued into beauty, even...