# Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning

Author: Wright, Willard Huntington, 1888-1939

Genre: Category: Art

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39886

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Modern+Painting%2C+Its+Tendency+and+Meaning+Wright&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

That beneath all great art there has been a definite animating purpose, a single and profound desire to reach a specific goal, has been but vaguely sensed by the general public and by the great majority of critics. And there are, I believe, but very few persons not directly and seriously concerned with the production of pictures, who realise that this animating purpose has for its aim the solution of the profoundest problems of the creative will, that it is rooted deeply in the aesthetic consciousness, and that its evolution marks one of the most complex phases of human psychology. The habit of approaching a work of art from the naif standpoint of one's personal temperament or taste and o...

## Chapters

- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Part 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/modern-painting-its-tendency-and-meaning-39886/chapters/25/index.md)