The Philosophy of the Beautiful Being Outlines of the History of Aesthetics
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I. Ch. V. 16, \ p. 68). His analysis of the picturesque in Art is excellent (Pt. II. Ch. Ii. 15-27). It does not consist in reproducing " what the eye sees, " but in massing objects so as to give them breadth of light and shade, blending them lightly and airily. An Enquiry into the state of the Arts of Design in E?ig- land, etc. , by Prince Hoare (1806), need only be mentioned as a connecting link of a conventional character in a some- what barren discussion. In 1806, ten essays on The Anatomy ...and Philosophy of Expression as connected with the Fine Arts, by Sir Charles (then Mr. ) Bell, were published, though they were written some time previously. They contain a " theory of Beauty, in the (human) countenance. " Mr. Bell held that it was by losing sight of Nature that the right principle of Beauty had not always been reached. He objected to the notion that the artist's principle was in losing sight of the real to find the ideal ; as if, by avoiding the human, we could reach the Divine.
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