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This dualism has always, I say, existed in life, and since art is an expression of life, and is governed and controlled by life's emotions and ideas, we can but expect that so marked a distinction in life Will reflect itself in a corresponding distinction in art. That expectation is verified. The true main elements in art are form and colour. Of these form, in its essence, is a process of definition which lends itself spontaneously to the Opera tions of intellect-while colour, in its essence and divorced from form, is the natural medium in which sensuous and emotional, as distinct from rational, impulses express themselves. Thus the essential division of the human mind into intellectual and emotional is mirrored in art's similar division into form and colour.
In this way have these two vehicles been used in the past. Form has dominated art whenever and wherever the intellectual faculty was dominant in life colour has dominated art whenever and wherever the emotional faculty has dominated life. Thus, by the traces they have left in art, the two great currents of ideas which have illumined the mind and spirit of man may be traced in their ebb and flow and in their interaction upon each other.
Moreover, it appears that not only is the mind of man divided into intellectual and spiritual faculties, and not only is art divided into the corresponding elements of form and colour, but the actual universe itself has come to share in this arrangement and be subject to a similar division. Every spiritual impulse which has quickened the soul of man has come out of the East just as every practical invention or intellectual conception has come out of the West. Mysticism is as commonplace an affair in Eastern life as science is in Western. Form, therefore, is the art idiom of the West, colour the art idiom of the East.
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Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book explores the dynamics between form and colour, concepts that have historically divided life and art, and shows how each element is the outward manifestation of its own order of ideas. By drawing a parallel between the evolution of thought and the development of art, the author suggests that the dominance of form in the West reflects the intellectual bias of that region, while the prominence of colour in the East mirrors its spiritual orientation. The book argues that form and colour are intrinsic to the human psyche and that the creative forces which have shaped art throughout history are rooted in the interplay of these concepts. The author underscores the importance of recognising the intellectual and emotional strains within art and life, regardless of which element may be more pronounced, to develop a well-rounded perspective on the human experience. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781330671627_0
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