The Appreciation of Painting
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But the manifestation of beauty certainly is not the end of art, nor is beauty itself indispensable in a work of art. As Sir Charles Walston well puts it, " the abnormal, even the diseased, may well be introduced into art if it dissolves itself into a higher normality, the harmonious expression of some greater idea " ; '' to appreciate the truth of this it is only necessary to recall the treatment of certain subjects in reli- 1 See Plate 3. Greek Sculpture and Modern Art, p. 35.
38 THE APPRECIA...TION OF PAINTING gious art. He suggests the substitution of " har- mony " for " beauty " as the essence of art : " If you think it misleading to use the term beauty ... Let me then say, as practically Aristotle did, that harmony is and ever will remain the essence of art, its primary impulse, and its ultimate purpose " ; and harmony in this sense primarily means the satisfaction of man's sense of form. " » With beauty or harmony, whichever term may be preferred, must always be found that correlation of parts which is known as rhythm ; but all said and done " beauty " is only a relative term.
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But the manifestation of beauty certainly is not the end of art, nor is beauty itself indispensable in a work of art. As Sir Charles Walston well puts it, " the abnormal, even the diseased, may well be introduced into art if it dissolves itself into a higher normality, the harmonious expression of some greater idea " ; '' to appreciate the truth of this it is only necessary to recall the treatment of certain subjects in reli- 1 See Plate 3. Greek Sculpture and Modern Art, p. 35.
38 THE APPRECIA...TION OF PAINTING gious art. He suggests the substitution of " har- mony " for " beauty " as the essence of art : " If you think it misleading to use the term beauty ... Let me then say, as practically Aristotle did, that harmony is and ever will remain the essence of art, its primary impulse, and its ultimate purpose " ; and harmony in this sense primarily means the satisfaction of man's sense of form. " » With beauty or harmony, whichever term may be preferred, must always be found that correlation of parts which is known as rhythm ; but all said and done " beauty " is only a relative term.
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