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    The Enjoyment of Art
    The Enjoyment of Art
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    The Enjoyment of Art

    By Carleton Eldredge Noyes

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Enjoyment of Art - Carleton Eldredge Noyes

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Enjoyment of Art, by Carleton Noyes

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      Title: The Enjoyment of Art

      Author: Carleton Noyes

      Release Date: November 7, 2008 [EBook #27194]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ENJOYMENT OF ART ***

      Produced by Ruth Hart

      [Note:  for this online edition I have moved the Table of Contents to the beginning of the text.]

      THE ENJOYMENT OF ART

      BY

      CARLETON NOYES

      BOSTON AND NEW YORK

      HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

      The Riverside Press, Cambridge

      1903

      COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY CARLETON NOYES

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

      Published, March, 1903

      To

      ROBERT HENRI

      AND

      VAN D. PERRINE

      This day before dawn I ascended a hill and look'd at

           the crowded heaven,

      And I said to my spirit When we become the enfolders of

               those orbs, and the pleasure and knowledge of every

           thing in them, shall we be fill'd and satisfied then?

      And my spirit said No, we but level that lift to pass and

           continue beyond.

      WALT WHITMAN

      CONTENTS

      PREFACE

      The following pages are the answer to questions which a young man asked himself when, fresh from the university, he found himself adrift in the great galleries of Europe. As he stood helpless and confused in the presence of the visible expressions of the spirit of man in so many ages and so many lands, one question recurred insistently: Why are these pictures? What is the meaning of all this striving after expression? What was the aim of these men who have left their record here? What was their moving impulse? Why, why does the human spirit seek to manifest itself in forms which we call beautiful?

      He turned to histories of art and to biographies of artists, but he found no answer! to the Why? The philosophers with their theories of aesthetics helped him little to understand the dignity and force of this portrait or the beauty of that landscape. In the conversation of his artist friends there was no enlightenment, for they talked about values and planes of modeling and the mysteries of tone. At last he turned in upon himself: What does this canvas mean to me? And here he found his answer. This work of art is the revelation to me of a fuller beauty, a deeper harmony, than I have ever seen or felt. The artist is he who has experienced this new wonder in nature and who wants to communicate his joy, in concrete forms, to his fellow men.

      The purpose of this book is to set forth in simple, untechnical fashion the nature and the meaning of a work of art. Although the illustrations of the underlying principles are drawn mainly from pictures, yet the conclusions apply equally to books and to music. It is true that the manifestations of the art-impulse are innumerable, embracing not only painting, sculpture, literature, music, and architecture, but also the handiwork of the craftsman in the designing of a rug or in the fashioning of a cup or a candlestick; it is true that each art has its special province and function, and that each is peculiarly adapted to the expression of a certain order of emotion or idea, and that the distinctions between one art and another are not to be inconsiderately swept aside or obscured. Yet art is one. It is possible, without confusing the individual characteristics essential to each, to discuss these principles under the comprehensive rubric of Art.

      The attempt is made here to reduce the supposed mysteries of art discussion to the basis of practical, every-day intelligence and common sense. What the ordinary man who feels himself in any way attracted; towards art needs is not more and constantly more pictures to look at, not added lore about them, not further knowledge of the men and the times that have produced them; but rather what he needs is some understanding of what the artist has aimed to express, and, as reinforcing that understanding, the capacity rightly to appreciate and enjoy.

      It is hoped that in this book the artist may find expressed with simplicity and justice his own highest aims; and that the appreciator and the layman may gain some insight into the meaning of art expression, and that they may be helped a little on their way to the enjoyment of art.

      HARVARD COLLEGE, December tenth, 1902.

      I

      THE PICTURE AND THE MAN

      At any exhibition of paintings, more particularly at some public gallery or museum, one can hardly fail to reflect that an interest in pictures is unmistakably widespread. People are there in considerable numbers, and what is more striking, they seem to represent every station and walk in life. It is evident that pictures, as exhibited to the public, are not the cult of an initiated few; their appeal is manifestly to no one class; and this popular interest is as genuine as it is extended.

      Thus reflectively scanning the crowd, the observer asks himself: What has attracted these numbers to that which might be supposed not to be understood of the many? And what are the pictures that in general draw the popular attention?

      A few persons have of course drifted into the exhibition out of curiosity or from lack of something better to do. So much is evident

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