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...thesis is that modernist painting, about which both laity and the profession rage, is not painting at all. It is " the art of color " and has developed by a historical accident through the medium of oil, pigment and canvas, to which it bears no essential relation. The true, traditional painting is pictorial draughtsmanship. Its tools are line and mass, black, white and gray. Its function is decoration in public and private buildings. It reached its apex in Rubens (1577-1640), and since then no fundamental advances have been made - merely improvements in method, conquests of technical problems, emotionally impotent...
...France, reacted against the orthodox tradition. They were dimly aware of the uses of color, and, though they probably would not recognize their spiritual descendants, they fathered the long line of impressionists, neo-impressionists, pointillists, postimpressionists, cubists, orphists, synchromists and what not, whom the 19th and 20th Centuries spawned. Modernist art is not yet aware of itself. The academic painters are in it only an insolent and half-baked challenge in their own medium. The modernists think they are destined to supplant the older school entirely. Neither is right, and when a true understanding of their respective purposes is spread...
...MODERNIST 1. The Bible CONTAINS the Word of God. 2. Jesus Christ is A Son of God in the sense that ALL men are. 3. The birth of Jesus was NATURAL. 4. The death of Jesus was EXEMPLARY. 5. Man is the product of EVOLUTION. 6. Man is the unfortunate VICTIM of environment but through self culture can make good. 7. Man is justified by WORKS in following Christ's example. Result, Natural development from WITHIN...
Perhaps it is impossible for a Fundamentalist to state fairly the Liberal position. Probably, if he could state it, he would not so militantly oppose it. In stating the Modernist position above, the Fundamentalists completely ignore the main point in all the Modernist attitude. For example, the Modernist does not say that the birth of Jesus was NATURAL.* He says he does not know that it was supernatural. "But," says he, "whether Jesus was or was not the natural son of Joseph, matters less than that Jesus' followers should seek and do the will of God as Jesus...
...dozen men in the entire world who would be able to understand it. The publisher replied meditatively that he would print the work. The music houses constantly got out editions of composers who had only the smallest vogue, losing money cheerfully in the larger interest of music. They printed modernists, when "nobody" wanted a page of the modernists. In particular they published the .works of the new school of Italian modernist composers. These had been unable to get publication in Italy. Firms like Ricordi and Sozogno limit themselves chiefly to opera publications, where the profits are probable and large...