Essays On the Fine Arts
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The form is hewn out of the solid rock ; to tint and daub it over with a flimsy, perishable substance is a mockery and a desecration where the work itself is likely to last for ever. A statue is the utmost possible development of form, and that on which the whole powers and faculties of the artist have been bent. It has a right, then, by the laws of intellectual creation to stand alone in that sim- plicity and unsullied nakedness in which it has been wrought. Tangible form (the primary idea) is... blind, averse to colour. A statue, if it were coloured at all, ought to be inlaid, that is, done in mosaic, where the colour would be part of the solid materials. But this would be an un- dertaking beyond human power. Where art has performed all that it can do, w^hy require it to begin its task again ? Or if the addition is to be made carelessly and lightly, it is unworthy of the subject. Colour is at best the mask of form : paint on a statue is like paint on a real face — it is not of a piece with the work, it does not belong to the face, and justly obtains the epithet of meretricious.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The form is hewn out of the solid rock ; to tint and daub it over with a flimsy, perishable substance is a mockery and a desecration where the work itself is likely to last for ever. A statue is the utmost possible development of form, and that on which the whole powers and faculties of the artist have been bent. It has a right, then, by the laws of intellectual creation to stand alone in that sim- plicity and unsullied nakedness in which it has been wrought. Tangible form (the primary idea) is... blind, averse to colour. A statue, if it were coloured at all, ought to be inlaid, that is, done in mosaic, where the colour would be part of the solid materials. But this would be an un- dertaking beyond human power. Where art has performed all that it can do, w^hy require it to begin its task again ? Or if the addition is to be made carelessly and lightly, it is unworthy of the subject. Colour is at best the mask of form : paint on a statue is like paint on a real face — it is not of a piece with the work, it does not belong to the face, and justly obtains the epithet of meretricious.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Hazlitt William Carew to read onlineMoreLess
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