The Esthetic Basis of the Greek Art of the Fifth And Fourth Centuries B C

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Rather than the question — "What are the expressive forms of my art, into obedience with which I must mould my matter?" the sculptor seems to put himself the query — "Have I caught the true look and fashion of the things which I portray?" Apparently, the one criticism which artists have been least able to endure or to meet, has been the artistically rather gratuitous one — "You have failed to copy Nature correctly!" Removed by lapse of centuries from the whole cycle of Greek sculpture, we can s...ee that the works of each period have artistic value and that what seemed at the time to be progress, rendering one's predecessor's methods obsolete, was always realistic advance but not necessarily greater artistic achievement. How we are to rate these various periods for this, their artistic 127 AND MONOGRAPHS 128 Relation of representa- tional fidelity to emotional forms, in the (1) archaic period ESTHETIC BASIvS achievement, is a problem for the Canon of Taste to decide. Some critics will see the peak already attained in the late archaic, and class all subsequent products as decline; others prefer the period of strength, others the period of beauty; few will put their preference so late as the final stage of Naturalism or Eclecticism.

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