Modern art education, its practical and aesthetic character educationally considered : being part of the Austrian official report on the Vienna world's fair of 1873

Langl, Josef

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Titel:: Modern art education, its practical and aesthetic character educationally considered : being part of the Austrian official report on the Vienna world's fair of 1873

Erscheinungsort:: Boston

Herausgeber:: L. Prang and Company

Dokumenttyp:: Monographie

Bestand:: Wiener Weltausstellung 1873

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1875

Ausgabenbezeichnung:: [Electronic ed.]

Sprache:: Englisch

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Titel:: ITALY

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ITALY. Theke are few branches of art-industry whose origin and first development must not be sought upon Italian soil. The revolution whicli took place in art in this country during the Cinque-Cento acted also upon the art-industries. While in art the human flgure suddenly awoke to life, in art-industry the Ornament freed itself from its rigid arcfiitectural framework, shot fortli in an abundance of animated forms, and developed such a wealth ancT variety of motives, that, even after the pause which was brought about by the Baroque period, it w T as still capable of becoming the never- failiug source of modern industry. The Italian Industrial Exhibi tion plainly shovved how the development of form in art-industry can be influenced by good examples. Ihe Italy of to-day may, indeed, be likened to a museum contain- ing the monuments of all those branches of art whose triumphs were achieved upon its soil a few hundred years ago. With tliese splendors continually before its eyes, it is impossible for Italian industi'3 to leave its noble old traditions. It continues to build in the same direction, uses the motives already in existence, and transplants thern, as the gardener transplants his flowers, into the most varied compositions for the decoration of its objects, and in this rnanner is finally led to original invention in the spirit of the ancients themselves. But, together with the forms of the Renaissance, its various technical processes have also been inherited ; and Italy is therefore still unsurpassed in certain departments of art even to-day. The spirit of the Renaissance has been handed down undimmed in the Ornament as applied in the industries ; but in the flgure, that form which of all forms is the most truly artistic, it has descended from sublime solemnity to the naive and the profane. It made a 108

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