The Early Renaissance And Other Essays On Art Subjects
The Early Renaissance And Other Essays On Art Subjects
J M James Mason Hoppin
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Let us look secondly, at the relation of art to morality, since it has been affirmed that art has no * Literature, p. 201. ART AND RELIGION 183 moral quality, and some have gone so far as to say that art is opposed to morality. I have not space to do more than to offer here an argument or two to prove not only that art is not opposed to morality, but that what is immoral cannot be true art. First, as an ex- pression of mind, art must be in harmony with truth. Truth is not precisely beauty, thou...gh the summit of truth is beauty, but there can be no artistic beauty which is not true. Art occupies a middle ground be- tween nature and morality, and while it is neither, it cannot be false to either. Art is not bounded merely by outward and physical forms of things which it copies, but it aims to be true to the deeper moral idea and truth in nature. Since nature, which is the chief field of art, is full of God, is the manifestation of the indwelling God, then the soul of art is moral and religious.
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