The Savoy (1896) (14595720978)

Identifier: savoy02symo (find matches) Title: The Savoy Year: 1896 (1890s) Authors: Symons, Arthur, 1865-1945 Beardsley, Aubrey, 1872-1898 Subjects: English literature Literature, Modern Art Publisher: London, L. Smithers Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: or its depth from being in light orin shadow. He does not mean by outline the bounding line dividing a formfrom its background, as one of his commentators has thought, but the linethat divides it from surrounding space, and unless you have an overmasteringsense of this you cannot draw true beauty at all, but only the beauty that isappended to folly, a beauty of mere voluptuous softness, a lamentableaccident of the mortal and perishing life, for the beauty proper for sublimeart is lineaments, or forms and features capable of being the receptacles ofintellect, and the face or limbs that alter least from youth to old age arethe face and limbs of the greatest beauty and perfection. His praise of asevere art had been beyond price had his age rested a moment to listen, inthe midst of its enthusiasm for Correggio and the later Renaissance, forBartolozzi and for Stothard ; and yet in his visionary realism, and in hisenthusiasm for what, after all, is perhaps the greatest art, and a necessary Text Appearing After Image: BLAKES ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE DIVINE COMEDY 49 part of every picture that is art at all, he forgot how he who wraps the visionin lights and shadows, in irridescent or glowing colour ; having in the midstof his labour many little visions of these secondary essences ; until form behalf lost in pattern, may compel the canvas or paper to become itself asymbol of some not indefinite because unsearchabl