Some Sources of Romanticism: 2 – The First Attack on Enlightenment
Isaiah Berlin
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The Art of Painting
Reynolds, who i suppose was most representative asthetic theorist in england of his period, in the ightenth century, said. The painter corrects nature by herself, her imperfect state, by her more perfect he makes out an abstract idea of forms more perfect than any one in the original. This is the famous ideal by which he says, by this phidias acquired his immortal fame. We know what perfection is by some inner sense which tells us what is norma and what is abnormal. What is the ideal and what is the deviation from this ideal.
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