Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . such things to be in the fashion,others buy them because they love and enjoy them. Is notthe reason found in the artistic quality of design and ma-terial? Is not the spell which has existed so long beingbroken, and something like an anti-renaissance growing up?That is to say, the fundamental philosoj^hy of the renais-sance is being discovered to be an error. ^Michelangelo no longer dominates the mind as oncehe did when he said that art is great in proportion to thenobility of what is represented, and that the better theimitation the better the art. Another spirit is
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . such things to be in the fashion,others buy them because they love and enjoy them. Is notthe reason found in the artistic quality of design and ma-terial? Is not the spell which has existed so long beingbroken, and something like an anti-renaissance growing up?That is to say, the fundamental philosoj^hy of the renais-sance is being discovered to be an error. ^Michelangelo no longer dominates the mind as oncehe did when he said that art is great in proportion to thenobility of what is represented, and that the better theimitation the better the art. Another spirit is in the air,and in every country people of taste and education, who areno longer beguiled by illusive catch words, see that any motifcan be made beautiful by right design and suitable is a new appreciation of and a development in skillin craftsmanship. Though the novelty of this has had itsday, and the impossibility of reviving ancient arts in theway they used to be carried on is recognized, there is a 14-3. GWATSUTEN(The second of the Twelve Deva Kings.)The Moon Deva (Sanskrit, Tchandra ofSoma). A woman holding in both hands a discemblematic of the moon. Attributed to Hokyo Tokuo of Kyoto,Kwan ei Period (1624-1644). Brooklyn Museum Collection. 144 growing- interest anddesire for s u e hcraftsmanship a smay be possible inour time. In every countrya few have becomeaware of this crafts-mans ideal andhave fostered it, and,as time goes on, thefew will influence themass. The influenceof ancient art is be-ginning to create anappreciation for thatwhich only recentlywas discarded, and,in the end, the broadfact must come intoview that the ^^orldsart has arisen out ofcraftsmanship, thatmen did not designout of nothing, andthen have their draw-ings blindly realizedby a n uninterestedexecutant. The an-cients, w h o createdthe objects we copy,themselves had noth-ing to copy; the menwho developed newideas were the actualworkers who made the things. Previousto the sixteenth ce
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