CHAPTER XVI

THE QUALITY OF ART, CONSIDERED ACCORDING TO ITS SUBJECT-MATTER--The better the feeling the better the art--The cultured crowd--The religious perception of our age--The new ideals put fresh demands to art--Art unites--Religious art--Universal art--Both coöperate to one result--The new appraisement of art--Bad art--Examples of art--How to test a work claiming to be art 479