DOI Heft:
No. 87 (June, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: The art of 1900
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19785#0020
The Art of 1900
as a whole swarm, and would leave them in no has to grope about in search of some kind of
manner of doubt concerning the reality of the guidance that will save him from betraying himself,
summer for which they were longing. He waits till the leaders of opinion begin to
But now-a-days the untutored taste is out of comment on the number of swallows there are
fashion in art matters. Everyone has to pretend about before he will admit that he has seen one at
to have the critical faculty whether it belongs to all, and keeps up a discreet scepticism concerning
him naturally or not. Everyone is expected the advent of summer until the fact itself is beyond
to be analytical and to discriminate between dispute. To such a one, especially, a few clear
asstheticism, pure and simple, and that which rules as to what form his admirations should take
covers up imperfections under a fair exterior. The would be an inestimable boon; his existence
plain man who pins his faith to one type of art, would be far more comfortable, and his mind would
who knows what he likes and will not interest be eased of many irritations.
himself in anything else, does not by any means Really, there is a great deal of truth in the old
come up to modern standards. For him the proverb, even if it is a little vague and unsatis-
single swallow is quite sufficient, and one picture factory from an educational point of view. There
of the sort he wants sets him boasting that the is in existence a tendency to assume that any
full blaze of the artistic summer has come. This school-of-art practice which is headed by one or
narrow creed, however, can only be professed by two men of conspicuous power is necessarily in
the person who is absolutely indifferent to what a state of exuberant vitality, and deserves to be
may be said about him. The sensitive or self- regarded as of the highest possible importance,
conscious man, with aspirations to be thought Enthusiasm of an exaggerated kind is wasted upon
enlightened and intelligent, may privately be quite artistic associations which have really no claim to
as limited in his aesthetic beliefs, but he cannot influence and no right to be ranked as in any sense
stand the ridicule to which he would have to authoritative. They are hailed as exponents of all
submit if he said openly what he thought. He that is valuable and illuminating in aesthetic
progress, as evidences of
the strong hold that great
statue of saint mungo by george framfton, a.r.a. busy toilers, striving one
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as a whole swarm, and would leave them in no has to grope about in search of some kind of
manner of doubt concerning the reality of the guidance that will save him from betraying himself,
summer for which they were longing. He waits till the leaders of opinion begin to
But now-a-days the untutored taste is out of comment on the number of swallows there are
fashion in art matters. Everyone has to pretend about before he will admit that he has seen one at
to have the critical faculty whether it belongs to all, and keeps up a discreet scepticism concerning
him naturally or not. Everyone is expected the advent of summer until the fact itself is beyond
to be analytical and to discriminate between dispute. To such a one, especially, a few clear
asstheticism, pure and simple, and that which rules as to what form his admirations should take
covers up imperfections under a fair exterior. The would be an inestimable boon; his existence
plain man who pins his faith to one type of art, would be far more comfortable, and his mind would
who knows what he likes and will not interest be eased of many irritations.
himself in anything else, does not by any means Really, there is a great deal of truth in the old
come up to modern standards. For him the proverb, even if it is a little vague and unsatis-
single swallow is quite sufficient, and one picture factory from an educational point of view. There
of the sort he wants sets him boasting that the is in existence a tendency to assume that any
full blaze of the artistic summer has come. This school-of-art practice which is headed by one or
narrow creed, however, can only be professed by two men of conspicuous power is necessarily in
the person who is absolutely indifferent to what a state of exuberant vitality, and deserves to be
may be said about him. The sensitive or self- regarded as of the highest possible importance,
conscious man, with aspirations to be thought Enthusiasm of an exaggerated kind is wasted upon
enlightened and intelligent, may privately be quite artistic associations which have really no claim to
as limited in his aesthetic beliefs, but he cannot influence and no right to be ranked as in any sense
stand the ridicule to which he would have to authoritative. They are hailed as exponents of all
submit if he said openly what he thought. He that is valuable and illuminating in aesthetic
progress, as evidences of
the strong hold that great
statue of saint mungo by george framfton, a.r.a. busy toilers, striving one
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