Abstract
THE GREATER part of Western art centers about man, his personality, his pleasures, his interests, his aspirations. Greek art of the classic period glorifies the beauty of the human form. The art of the great Renaissance masters is a projection of this world into an ideal harmonization. Dutch painting of the seventeenth century and much of the French painting of the nineteenth century is a careful interpretation of every day: its joy and its pathos are the joys and the sorrows of the individual. Certain currents of modern painting that have turned against the “anecdotic” and the “literary” and have seen in art no more than a balance of forms, lines and colors, represent to my irreverent mind no more than the apotheosis of millinery into art.
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