Excerpt from The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters, March 13th to March 25th, 1916 In stating that the moderns have changed the quality and not the nature Of art, there is no implication that in many instances the great men Of the past, even with limited means, have not surpassed in artistic achievement the men of today who have at hand more extensive means. Great organizers of plastic form have, because of their tremendous power, done with small means more masterly work than lesser men with large means. For ...
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Excerpt from The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters, March 13th to March 25th, 1916 In stating that the moderns have changed the quality and not the nature Of art, there is no implication that in many instances the great men Of the past, even with limited means, have not surpassed in artistic achievement the men of today who have at hand more extensive means. Great organizers of plastic form have, because of their tremendous power, done with small means more masterly work than lesser men with large means. For instance, Goya as an artist surpasses Manet, and Rembrandt transcends Daumier. This principle holds true in all the arts. Balzac, ignorant of modern literary methods, is greater than George Moore, a master of modem means. And Beethoven still remains the colossal figure in music, despite the vastly increased modern scope of Richard Strauss's methods. Methods are use less without the creative will. But granting this point (which unconsciously is the stumbling block of nearly all modern art critics), new and fuller means, even in the hands of inferior men, are not the proper subject for ridicule. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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