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Dallas Art Notes
Vol. I Season of 1929-30, December No. 2
.IRT as the expression of man's inner life will always
partake of man's mental and probably also of his physical
characteristics. The modernists at least make us realize
that art is man made, for better or worse. But the artists
of almost every great period have had to bear the brunt
of accusations of unorthodoxy.
As an age changes so must its art-the thing that
registers its feelings. Granting all this it is impossible
to forget that the content of art is largely hereditary and
traditional. Especially at Christmas time do we feel the
deep significance of art to the religious life of man even
if Christians visualize the Nativity in as many ways as
there are sects to give different interpretations to it.
The mother-father love and the centuries old reverence
and wonder at the beauty of Life are at the base of all
such expressions. Many religions have sought art chan-
nels to vivify their conceptions and teachings. The Egyp-
tians, Greeks, Buddhists, and our North American In-
dians gave art form to religious content and by so doing
have preserved a continuity of ideas over long stretches
of time.
Artists, in the large, like other men, have imitative
habits and produce picture or statue, building or craft
work, much as others before them have done, until some
strong wave of emotion starts new ideas that demand
new forms. We should value such occasions and seek
to get all possible artistic gain from creative upheavals.
Although much of the new will wear off and the old
remain, there will be a difference and our vision may be
greatly benefitted if we keep an open mind.
In the present sweeping social readjustments, many
changes in applied design are noticeable on every hand.
Domestic architecture as well as commercial buildings,
costume and conveyance have changed so vitally it is
little wonder that painting and sculpture should take on
new effects. The range of color has been extended, the
problem of form studied from many new angles, and
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