. The Genesis of art-form : an essay in comparative easthetics showing the identity of the sources, methods, and effects of composition in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture . composition, which is toreduce factors to unity and order, so as to render themaesthetically intelligible, is not accomplished. At thesame time, interspersion, like variety and confusion andtheir kindred methods, is one of the characteristics ofnature ; and because of this, and because it clearly con-trasts with such effects as are most distinctively artistic,it always gives some suggestion of naturalnes
. The Genesis of art-form : an essay in comparative easthetics showing the identity of the sources, methods, and effects of composition in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture . composition, which is toreduce factors to unity and order, so as to render themaesthetically intelligible, is not accomplished. At thesame time, interspersion, like variety and confusion andtheir kindred methods, is one of the characteristics ofnature ; and because of this, and because it clearly con-trasts with such effects as are most distinctively artistic,it always gives some suggestion of naturalness to a prod-uct in which it appears. Loosely constructed sentencesand whole compositions, like Emersons Essays, say, ascontrasted with Everetts Orations ; or like Crabbs LV7£ASP£AS/OA\ COMPLICA TIOX, CONTINUITY. 221 Parish Register as contrasted with Miltons ParadiseLost ; or Hke Sullivans Patience as contrasted withWagners Tannhauser ; or like almost any Nocturne ascontrasted with a March, or Variation as contrasted witha Symphony—all the former of these, owing to the way inwhich, in the absence of cumulative or massing methods,unforetokened and unexpected effects are intcjspersed. FIG. 72.—CHATEAU AT pages 31, 37, 77, 7S, 124, 222, 235. throughout, have a peculiar charm of their own. So inthe arts of sight, the blending of all sorts of forms, naturaland human, in hill and valley, foliage and rock, landand water, or shade and sunshine, robed, as in somepaintings, in all possible colors, and mixed, as in somearchitecture, like that characterizing the street fronts ofcertain American cities, or the diversified roofs and tur- 222 THE GENESIS OF ART-FORM. rets of certain villas—these too, presenting what we term^.picturesque effect, owe their main attractiveness to inter-spcrsiofi. Always in connection with this effect, however, thereneeds to be, as in the Landscape with Water, by Corot,Fig. 73, page 223, a liberal application of certain of theother methods of
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