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Oscar Bluemner, Audiator et Altera Pars: Some Plain Sense on the Modern Art Movement
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tionalities. Theirs, at best, is dead art; and our art-authorities and dealers
stick to it like the butcher to his trade in dead meat. Dead art, like dead
meat, may be valued and continue as a necessary commodity.
But art is not dead. Art is. It is, because as an idea it is inherent in
the human mind. The new art movement of Europe has once more estab-
lished the standard of true art. It is up to the American also to give his art
the form of the living day.
Oscar Bluemner.
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stick to it like the butcher to his trade in dead meat. Dead art, like dead
meat, may be valued and continue as a necessary commodity.
But art is not dead. Art is. It is, because as an idea it is inherent in
the human mind. The new art movement of Europe has once more estab-
lished the standard of true art. It is up to the American also to give his art
the form of the living day.
Oscar Bluemner.
38
