DOI issue:
No. 318 (September 1919)
DOI article:Manson, James Bolivar: Notes on some drawings by Edmund Kapp
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21358#0151
NOTES ON SOME DRAWINGS BY EDMUND KAPP
" THE BISHOP ” (THE
BISHOP OF NORWICH)
BY EDMUND X. KAPP
did invent forcible feeding for suffragettes,
it would have nothing to do with art; and
usually Mr. Kapp resists the temptation to
weave his personal dislikes into the pattern
of his dreams; mostly he lets the simple
beauty of his victims speak for itself, he
having previously dissected it. 0 0
Art being intuition and not intellectual
activity, the artist is like a sensitive instru-
ment which receives and records impres-
sions with varying vividness. Pure intui-
tion is practically impossible in any one
over the age of six months—the mind is so
soon overcrowded with associations, pre-
conceived ideas, and other lumber. The
ground on which the impression is received
bears some traces, some imprint, of previous
use, but Mr. Kapp manages to keep his
impressions clear and bright. 0 0
His work divides into two classes : in
135
" THE BISHOP ” (THE
BISHOP OF NORWICH)
BY EDMUND X. KAPP
did invent forcible feeding for suffragettes,
it would have nothing to do with art; and
usually Mr. Kapp resists the temptation to
weave his personal dislikes into the pattern
of his dreams; mostly he lets the simple
beauty of his victims speak for itself, he
having previously dissected it. 0 0
Art being intuition and not intellectual
activity, the artist is like a sensitive instru-
ment which receives and records impres-
sions with varying vividness. Pure intui-
tion is practically impossible in any one
over the age of six months—the mind is so
soon overcrowded with associations, pre-
conceived ideas, and other lumber. The
ground on which the impression is received
bears some traces, some imprint, of previous
use, but Mr. Kapp manages to keep his
impressions clear and bright. 0 0
His work divides into two classes : in
135