Category: Art
This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded heaven, And I said to my spirit _When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every thing in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then?_ And my spirit said _No, we but level tha...
In an exhibition of paintings were once displayed two panels precisely similar in appearance, presenting an army coat and cap, a sabre and a canteen. At a distance there was no...
2. Chapter 2In order to seize the real meaning of art it is necessary to strip the word beauty of all the wrappings of customary associations and the accretions of tradition and habit. As t...
4. Chapter 4Widely different from annual exhibitions, too, are galleries and museums; for here the proportion of really good things is immeasurably larger. In the study of masterpieces, it...
1. Chapter 1This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at the crowded heaven, And I said to my spirit _When we become the enfolders of those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of e...