What Is Art?

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III QUALITY IN ART The word quality in art is so widely used, and so generally confused ia its meaning, that thus far it seems no one has had the hardihood to run it down and put it in the dictionaries. The picture buyer has it launched at him by salesmen in the art shop, the painters use it freely and somewhat indiscriminately in discussing pictures, and occasionally a writer on art weaves it into a sentence where it sounds well, or tends to create an impression of art knowledge in the writer. But they all take precious good care not to say precisely what they mean by it. Any attempt, therefore, at definition is likely to meet with dissent. However, let us make the attempt. The use of the word by dealers is more often of commercial than artistic significance. They speak of pictures as importers do of wines, silks, or rugs. One kind of wine is of a finer quality than another kind, perhaps because it is older; and one picture is of a higher quality than another, perhaps again because it is older, or is better known, or is a better piece of workmanship. This meaning of quality corresponds to grades, kinds, classes, and has to do chiefly with barter and sale. But dealers, as well as artists, sometimes use the word in a slightly different sense in referring to the tone or light or color or drawing of a picture. A certain work may be spoken of as having a deeper quality of color than another or a more brilliant quality of light. The meaning here is obvious enough. If you hold in one hand an American gingham and in the other hand a Pongee silk you must be aware of a difference in the quality of the texture, and if you try them closely with your eye you cannot help noticing also a difference in the quality of color. This meaning is so closely related to the commercial us...

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