. Trees in nature, myth and art; . nd even size. The difference in tone betweena tree a hundred yards away, and another treeof the same kind half a mile away, did notinterest him as an artist, any more than sucha problem, and similar ones, interest childrendrawing in the nursery. The art of the early Middle Ages showedless interest in nature even than that of theCatacombs. Christianity lost its early joyous-ness. The great problem as stated by theChurch, was not so much to live rightly in thisworld, as to believe rightly, so that happinessmight be secured in the world to come. Re-ligion, of co
. Trees in nature, myth and art; . nd even size. The difference in tone betweena tree a hundred yards away, and another treeof the same kind half a mile away, did notinterest him as an artist, any more than sucha problem, and similar ones, interest childrendrawing in the nursery. The art of the early Middle Ages showedless interest in nature even than that of theCatacombs. Christianity lost its early joyous-ness. The great problem as stated by theChurch, was not so much to live rightly in thisworld, as to believe rightly, so that happinessmight be secured in the world to come. Re-ligion, of course, included more than this. Butthis aspect of it received great emphasis; andwas the one almost exclusively dealt with byart; and art, controlled by the Church, dealtwith little but religion. The world was a sinfuland lost world; its doom might come upon itat any time. To have the thoughts turned tothe world behind this world, and to the beingsthere, Divine and between the Divine and thehuman, was the prime necessity. Hence art. %^v ft W\ } i f1 3 y eg .. if fit ^&^ ^C* ? 5 o 2 .->S/V> *>•• -^ -■> * \ i A uteri
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