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#0134
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Number Twelve. This also has diagonal construction which, with the omission oj every unessential,
contributes to its strength both in the presentation oj the idea, and as a picture.
tribution of the maker—{. e., in pictures, as in This creative contribution is the meat in a work
music, to the organized relation of the parts—to of art. It takes any subject matter, story-telling,
those elements which exist to be seen as ends in nature, human-emotional, or what-not, and bends
themselves. We listen to combinations of notes it to its purposes—builds it, according to those
in music and are thrilled by their quality—by the mysterious universal laws of the human spirit,
relations of the parts to each other—the design, into the organized relations which create ecstacy
It is how the composer composes that measures his through the agency of the organ of sight,
achievement as artist and arouses the enthusiasm Concern with subject matter, or skill, or per-
of his audience. In pictures it should be the same, sonality, is strictly within the scope of ordinary,
three ninety-Jour
february i 9 2 5
Number Twelve. This also has diagonal construction which, with the omission oj every unessential,
contributes to its strength both in the presentation oj the idea, and as a picture.
tribution of the maker—{. e., in pictures, as in This creative contribution is the meat in a work
music, to the organized relation of the parts—to of art. It takes any subject matter, story-telling,
those elements which exist to be seen as ends in nature, human-emotional, or what-not, and bends
themselves. We listen to combinations of notes it to its purposes—builds it, according to those
in music and are thrilled by their quality—by the mysterious universal laws of the human spirit,
relations of the parts to each other—the design, into the organized relations which create ecstacy
It is how the composer composes that measures his through the agency of the organ of sight,
achievement as artist and arouses the enthusiasm Concern with subject matter, or skill, or per-
of his audience. In pictures it should be the same, sonality, is strictly within the scope of ordinary,
three ninety-Jour
february i 9 2 5