Educability and Art: D. H. Lawrence, Paul Cézanne, Herbert Read

Abstract

“But I do think we ought to begin to paint good pictures, now that we know pretty well all there is to know about how a picture should be made. You do agree, don’t you, that technically we know almost all there is to know about painting?” (LEA 215). D.H. Lawrence claims this to be a proposition made to him by a “young English painter, an intelligent and really modest young man,”at some time prior to the drafting (between late December 1928 and early February 1929) of the essay, “Introduction ...