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Art Principles with Special Reference to Painting; Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... NOTES NOTE I. PAGE 2 It is usual and proper to distinguish three kinds of beauty in painting, namely, of colour, of form, and of expression. But form must be denned by tones, and colour without form is meaningless: hence in the general consideration of the painter's art, it is convenient to place form and colour together as representing the sensorial element of beauty. Nevertheless colour and form are not on the same plane in regard to sense perception. Harmony of colour is distinguished involuntarily by nerve sensations, but in the case of harmony of form there must be a certain consideration before its aesthetic determination. The recognition of this harmony commonly appears to be instantaneous, but still it is delayed, the delay varying with the complexity of the signs, that is to say, with the quality of the beauty. NOTE 2. PAGE 2 Benedetto Croce, the inventor of the latest serious aesthetic system, talks of the "science of art," but he says a: Science--true science, is a science of the spirit--Philosophy. Natural sciences spoken of apart from philosophy, are complexes of knowledge, arbitrarily abstracted and fixed. a Msthelic, Douglas Ainslie Translation, 1909. 18 273 It is perhaps needless to say that Croce's aesthetic system, like all the others, collapses on a breath of inquiry. On the purely philosophical side of it, further criticism is unnecessary, and its practical outcome from the point of view of art is not far removed from the amazing conclusions of Hegel. From the latter philosopher we learn that an idol in the form of a stone pillar, or an animal set up by the primitive races, is higher art than a drama by Shakespeare, or a portrait by Titian, because it represents the Idea (Hegel's unintelligible abstraction--see Note...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230197885
- ISBN 13 9781230197883
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages106
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