. Art thoughts : the experiences and observations of an American amateur in Europe. CHAPTER XV. THE ART OP THE FUTURE. ^^HE brief summary given of past and present phasesof the aesthetic life of nations naturally suoo-estssome thoughts regarding its future. As a basiswe must take a retrospective view of each domi-nant principle and aspect of the several great peri-ods which underlie the art of to-day. It is unnecessary to recallthe specific styles of early paganism; to wit, the Egyptian, Hin-doo, Etruscan, or Assyrian, but we can limit our glance to itshighest form, the Grecian. To this there
. Art thoughts : the experiences and observations of an American amateur in Europe. CHAPTER XV. THE ART OP THE FUTURE. ^^HE brief summary given of past and present phasesof the aesthetic life of nations naturally suoo-estssome thoughts regarding its future. As a basiswe must take a retrospective view of each domi-nant principle and aspect of the several great peri-ods which underlie the art of to-day. It is unnecessary to recallthe specific styles of early paganism; to wit, the Egyptian, Hin-doo, Etruscan, or Assyrian, but we can limit our glance to itshighest form, the Grecian. To this there is to be opposed theantagonistic mediaeval art, its special reaction towards classicalinfluences under the guise of the late Renaissance, and thosedemocratic motives which are coextensive with the spread ofProtestant ideas. Art is the material representative of the ideal, whether it beon a spiritual, intellectual, or sensual basis. Hence, to predicateof the art of an epoch we have first to get a clear vision of itsimmediate passion, or what it most covets. The basis, there-fore,
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