DOI Heft:
Nr. 333 (February 1925)
DOI Artikel:Pearson, Ralph M.: Etchings as works of art
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19984#0133
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Number Eleven. This etching is strikingly built on diagonal construction, and gives, therefore, the
great vitality which is inherent in this method of eye control.
from the main performance. The fact that they
have been featured so prominently, and accom-
plished the distraction of interest to themselves
so thoroughly, during the past three centuries,
probably accounts in some measure for the general
indifference toward art which is the prevailing
condition today. An observer of pictures may be
momentarily interested, or amused, by an old
house or smoking factory; he is never stirred to
the depths by them—never gains from them a
release into esthetic experience.
In music particularly, and in poetry and drama
to a somewhat lesser degree, perhaps, it is the
creative contribution of the maker of the work
that is valued most highly and is given the name
of art. In pictures the same has been true, to
judge by the work produced, in all ages except
those in which concern with the tools and mate-
rials, of which subject matter is one, has eclipsed
concern with the creation, as in our own repre-
sentative period. The modern movement in art
has directed attention back to the creative con-
FEBRUARY 1 Q 2 j
three ninety-three
StaZIONE X -
GbSTT' sp0gl1at0, ed abbevekato cost fele -
Number Eleven. This etching is strikingly built on diagonal construction, and gives, therefore, the
great vitality which is inherent in this method of eye control.
from the main performance. The fact that they
have been featured so prominently, and accom-
plished the distraction of interest to themselves
so thoroughly, during the past three centuries,
probably accounts in some measure for the general
indifference toward art which is the prevailing
condition today. An observer of pictures may be
momentarily interested, or amused, by an old
house or smoking factory; he is never stirred to
the depths by them—never gains from them a
release into esthetic experience.
In music particularly, and in poetry and drama
to a somewhat lesser degree, perhaps, it is the
creative contribution of the maker of the work
that is valued most highly and is given the name
of art. In pictures the same has been true, to
judge by the work produced, in all ages except
those in which concern with the tools and mate-
rials, of which subject matter is one, has eclipsed
concern with the creation, as in our own repre-
sentative period. The modern movement in art
has directed attention back to the creative con-
FEBRUARY 1 Q 2 j
three ninety-three