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Updated: May 17, 2025
Everything can be found at sea, according to the spirit of your quest strife, peace, romance, naturalism of the most pronounced kind, ideals, boredom, disgust, inspiration and every conceivable opportunity, including the opportunity to make a fool of yourself exactly as in the pursuit of literature. But the quarter-deck criticism is somewhat different from literary criticism.
This really was madness! The Church had created art, had cherished it for centuries; and now by the effeteness of her sons she was cast into a corner. All the great movements of our day, one after the other romanticism, naturalism had been effected independently of her, or even against her will.
Is there any fair way of disposing of the current of assertion, and the still deeper undercurrent of implication, on this subject, without one which loosens all faith in revelation, and throws us on pure naturalism? But of one thing I am sure, probation does not end with this life, and the number of the redeemed may therefore be infinitely greater than the world's history leads us to suppose.
We stand dumfounded, not even trying to understand; for this work, stamped with transcendent naturalism, is beyond and apart from painting; no one can copy or reproduce it. "After Rembrandt," Durtal went on, "there is an irremediable decay of religious feeling in painting.
But the difference between naturalism and idealism may, I think, be better stated otherwise than by emphasising the contrast between existence and value, which it is impossible for either side to maintain. Naturalism seeks to interpret the world by investigation of origins; idealism by investigation of ends.
Darwin's great influence as a force turning scholarly interest toward naturalism and away from classicism, as a factor in modern materialism and even pessimism, as a background, if no more, for the Haeckels and Ostwalds of science is no inconsiderable factor in the scientific and objective spirit of the day. Facts must be faced.
He would have little need of a special model; but would daily observe some fresh detail of muscles, some notable pose which he could add from memory to his conception of the human body. But in the greatest periods of art naturalism is not predominant. Its constantly working tendency is kept in check by noble ideas and noble style.
Brandan is the most singular product of this combination of Celtic naturalism with Christian spiritualism. A very considerable number of the saints of Brittany, St. Tenenan, St. Renan, etc., were emigrants from Ireland. The Breton legends of St. Malo, St. David, and of St.
Thus, it cannot be reckoned possible to make a whole nation pass from the abyss of superstition, that is to say, from the bosom of ignorance, from the ravings of delirium, into absolute naturalism, or as the priests of superstition would denominate it, into atheism; which supposes reflection requires intense study demands extensive knowledge exacts a long series of experience includes the habit of contemplating nature the faculty of observing her laws; which, in short, embraces the expansive science of the causes producing her various phenomena; her multiplied combinations, together with the diversified actions of the beings she contains, as well as their numerous properties.
Giotto, in the frescoes of Avignon, has, with his usual strong feeling for naturalism, given the best example I remember, in painting, of the unity of the conventional system with direct imitation, and that both in sea and river; giving in pure blue color the coiling whirlpool of the stream, and the curled crest of the breaker.
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