The meaning of art, its nature, rôle, and value (1913)
Gaultier, Paul, b. 1872, Baldwin, H., Baldwin, E. · London, G. Allen & Company ltd. · leaf 158
ave, if not their equals, at least their pro-totypes in everyday life. But this is not all. In symbolical painting,o-enerally called idealistic—religious, allegorical,or fantastic—the subject is more or less the workof the artist himself: it is indeed his very soul,his dreams made incarnate, and,… … t>2 WHAT A WORK OF ART TEACHES 99 lightness of Watteau appears in his treatment of Fetes. The interest of works of this sort, theirhighly significant value, comes precisely fromthis, that in them style and subject—althoughnecessarily indebted to nature, which separatesthem—are united, as two…
Art · Aesthetics
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