Holland, V. 1 (Of 2)
Holland, V. 1 (Of 2)
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The nude, the nymphs, the madonnas, the saints, allegory, mythology, the ideal, --the wholeancient edifice was in ruins. The new life which animated Holland wasrevealed and developed in a new way. The little country, which hadsuddenly become so glorious and formidable, felt that it must tell itsgreatness. Its faculties, which had been strengthened and stimulatedin the grand enterprise of creating a native land, a real world, --nowthat this enterprise was achieved, expanded, and created an imagi...naryworld. The conditions of the people were favorable to a revival ofart. They had overcome the supreme perils which threatened them:security, prosperity, a splendid future, were theirs: their heroes haddone their part; the time had come for artists. After so manysacrifices and disasters Holland came forth victorious from thestrife, turned her face upon her people, and smiled, and that smilewas Art.
We could picture to ourselves what this art was even if no example ofit remained. A peaceable, industrious, practical people, who, to usethe words of a great German poet, were continually brought back todull realities by the conditions of a vulgar bourgeois life; whocultivated their reason at the expense of their imagination, living inconsequence on manifest ideas rather than beautiful images; who fledfrom the abstract, whose thoughts never rose beyond nature, with whichthey waged continual warfare--a people that saw only what exists, thatenjoyed only what it possessed, whose happiness consisted in wealthyease and an honest indulgence of the senses, although without violentpassions or inordinate desires;--such a people would naturally bephlegmatic in their art, --they would love a style that pleased but didnot arouse them, that spoke to the senses rather than to theimagination--a school of art placid, precise, full of repose, andthoroughly material like their life--an art, in a word, realistic andself-satisfied, in which they could see themselves reflected as theywere and as they were content to remain.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The nude, the nymphs, the madonnas, the saints, allegory, mythology, the ideal, --the wholeancient edifice was in ruins. The new life which animated Holland wasrevealed and developed in a new way. The little country, which hadsuddenly become so glorious and formidable, felt that it must tell itsgreatness. Its faculties, which had been strengthened and stimulatedin the grand enterprise of creating a native land, a real world, --nowthat this enterprise was achieved, expanded, and created an imagi...naryworld. The conditions of the people were favorable to a revival ofart. They had overcome the supreme perils which threatened them:security, prosperity, a splendid future, were theirs: their heroes haddone their part; the time had come for artists. After so manysacrifices and disasters Holland came forth victorious from thestrife, turned her face upon her people, and smiled, and that smilewas Art.
We could picture to ourselves what this art was even if no example ofit remained. A peaceable, industrious, practical people, who, to usethe words of a great German poet, were continually brought back todull realities by the conditions of a vulgar bourgeois life; whocultivated their reason at the expense of their imagination, living inconsequence on manifest ideas rather than beautiful images; who fledfrom the abstract, whose thoughts never rose beyond nature, with whichthey waged continual warfare--a people that saw only what exists, thatenjoyed only what it possessed, whose happiness consisted in wealthyease and an honest indulgence of the senses, although without violentpassions or inordinate desires;--such a people would naturally bephlegmatic in their art, --they would love a style that pleased but didnot arouse them, that spoke to the senses rather than to theimagination--a school of art placid, precise, full of repose, andthoroughly material like their life--an art, in a word, realistic andself-satisfied, in which they could see themselves reflected as theywere and as they were content to remain.
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