Calvinism - pagina 211

CALVINISM AND ART.

we begin with

ion,

Calvin's last saying, viz., that art reveals

to us a higher reality than

You

is

by

offered

this sinful world.

are familiar with the question, already mentionned,

whether it.

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art should imitate nature or should transcend

Greece grapes were painted with such accuracy

In

by

that birds were deceived

to eat them.

And

highest

to

ideal

too

truth,

all

forms

and

appearance and tried

their

nature seemed the

this imitation of

the

Socratic

Herein

school.

by idealists, that the exhibited by nature are and ever forgotten

often

relations

must remain the fundamental forms and all

arbitrarily

likes to

a wild play of opposition

empirical confines

same mistake

by

mitted

of

is

scientists

art

deteriorates into

it,

should

empirical,

task to

its

sounds,

But on the other hand

purely

the

to

listen to its

hover over

fantasy.

interpretation

idealistic

the

relations of

actual reality, and an art which does not watch the

forms and motions of nature nor but

the

lies

mere

committed

when they

be

as

often

imitation. in

justified

as

all

in

the

For then

art so often

com-

confine their scientific

task to the mere observation, computation and accurate report of

the

For even as science has

facts.

phenomena

the

to

so also

it

every

propagate nobler species of animals,

fruits,

than nature, herself, could produce,

the vocation of

thing

reproduce those

is

it

by the knowledge

may

of this order,

and

from

investigation of their inherent

order, to the end that man, enriched

flowers

to ascend

visible

forms

not merely to observe

and audible, to apprehend

artistically,

natural

art,

but

the

much more

it,

and

to discover in

order of the beautiful, and,

enriched by this higher kwowledge, to produce a beautiful

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