. Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent . re to say about him when we come to consider, in orderto lead up to the changes in French art at the beginning ofour special period, the character of the art of the periodimmediately preceding it. We need not give examples from the art of other coun-tries of the action and reaction upon each other of contem-porary life and nature on the one hand, and tradition on theother. Enough has been said to show that there is in artabundant material for orthodoxies and heresies, for tyranniesand revolutions. The purpose of this book, it may be said her
. Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent . re to say about him when we come to consider, in orderto lead up to the changes in French art at the beginning ofour special period, the character of the art of the periodimmediately preceding it. We need not give examples from the art of other coun-tries of the action and reaction upon each other of contem-porary life and nature on the one hand, and tradition on theother. Enough has been said to show that there is in artabundant material for orthodoxies and heresies, for tyranniesand revolutions. The purpose of this book, it may be said here, is notto pass judgment on the various developments and ten-dencies, the orthodoxies and the heresies, of art during thelast fifty years; nor to hold a brief for any particularschool. Idealism, Realism, Impressionism, all have theirvalue, and therefore ought to have their place. And inusing such terms we ought to bear in mind that thequalities for which they respectively stand are not theabsolutely peculiar possession of any particular school. It. INTRODUCTORY II is only that one or other of them occupies a larger placehere than there. And no one of them has any right always to claim thefirst place. We who are not artists do not want our pleasureto be limited by what any particular school has to give us;or, if we do so restrict our pleasure, it is to our own are not unfrequently good critics only in the particularfield of art in which they themselves are working. Howcautious one has sometimes to be in conversation with themif one does not wish suddenly to have ones head almostblown off! The dyers hand is subdued to what it works are critics also who violently take sides. Perhapsthere are occasions on which sides ought violently to betaken. Still, it has been said that new constitutions arebuilt up out of the wisdom of those whose heads have beencut off in revolutions. In the following pages, if preferencebe shown and sides taken, it will not be by intent
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