| Show s 1 bato 1 lu fencl tar are pame e me incongruities for which it 13 Luin lt r to account why will a i roman w who ho is a good judge of a picture I 1 hang on her person a naturalistic bug or dower bower made out of gold and diamonds tho the prince of wales buys much je jewelry elry it is is his favorite gift on wedding occasions and ho he misses taste just as often as anybody else ele in fact he must bear some iome of the blame of keeping bad de signs in vogue cgue according to reports he presented not long iong aro ago to a professionally sio nally macal bride a brooch which was nas n as an mutation imitation of a violin and his gift to his bit niece who was lately married was a diamond set flower the prince can make such designs fashionable but he be can never make them in taste what la is the matter with them several things in the first place jewels imitate natural objects its a long iong story why but I 1 will try to abridge art that imitates is ia never good art imitations ask admiration merely for the skill with which ono ona thing has been mado made to look like another this thia is is an idea that has nothing to do with beauty or with orna ornament menk and it ia is artisans and not artists work besides to use an object as a violin fo another purpose e than the one for which it was designed is 13 absurd and stupid this sort eort of thing is 13 a low kind of 0 humor on a par with puns true art is is creative it aims at pro dancing ducin 1 forms of pure beauty such a 4 form asks admiration for itself for its form or color without conjuring up foreign ideas art may make use of natural forms but only to combine their beauties into a new form never imitatively harpers bazar |
