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Art
Loving, Pierre | April 11, 1923 issue

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If art is to be viewed as expression, then it belongs to exactly where philosopher Baruch Spinoza discovered the creative will, namely, within the pantheistic scheme of nature itself, within the surging flow of life, and not extraneous to it. If natural beauty is, as Spinoza indicated, the garment by which we may come to know God then formal beauty is not something hazy and metaphysical, but the simple contours which nature assumes. If art be expression, human expression, then formal beauty issues as the consummate fusion of feeling and expression. Form is thus lifted out of the ruck of mere technical deftness, and at the same time it is rescued from the twilight zone in which artist Olive Bell has involuntarily fettered it for so long.

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ART; SPINOZA, Benedictus de, 1632-1677; WILL; NATURE; PHILOSOPHY; ARTISTS
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