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Art Part of Formal: ;
3 Rational Side of Life

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rate moment of this background can-
not be preserved unless it is preserved
by art. For art, by the use of media
which make possible the continuance
in some form of the vividness of ac-
tual intuition, retains the content that
the clearest of memories must lose.
Yet mere reproduction of an experi-
enced depth of reality is not the pur-
pose of art; its aim is. likewise a
revelation of other depths to come.

The artist foregoes much rich va-
riety in order to fix one aspect of what
he has: enjoyed in a permanent form.
Within this form,’ however, he in-
cludes as variants even that which his
life has missed, because the intensity,
the _adumbrated portion of being
which it is his task to portray, is to
him a question asking after the na-
ture of other ‘adumbrateds, and he
can answer this question only by
clarifying the meaning of that very
adumbrated which aroused it. He
must involve in that which he is ex-
pressing more than its own individual
character, for he can never penetrate
sufficiently to the inmost being of any-
. thing to express that and that alone.

Beginning with the relativized and
repeatable sensuous, the sole guide to
the intensity of experience, he at-
tempts to transmute it into a symbol
of the absolutely unique and essential
reality beneath it; but he cannot find
such a complete and private idiosyn-
crasy. He atones for his failure by
trying to answer what the intensive



being to which he can attain demands
—its relation to other adumbrateds,
inasmuch as it is still a universal.

The sensuous object which is used
to express the adumbrated need not
belong to any particular artistic me-.
dium. Any material that can be
manipulated ‘so that its symbolic
values are transformed” is satisfac-
tory material for the artist. In order
to perform such manipulation, how-
ever, he must be a master of craft
and technique, which are the leading
principles ‘of art.

Not only are the leading principles
of art integrated into the process of
attainment; they are embodied in the
attained result as well. If the result
stood alone, it would be inferred, ‘not
made, ‘and art is a making. In this
way art does imitate nature, ‘for it
reproduces nature’s rhythm on a
smaller scale. The: artist is a more
clever worker than: ‘nature, who is
blind, ‘but -he can produce only sym-
bolical things, while nature makes
reality. Even by means of his sym-
bols, however, he can improve on na-
ture, for he can unite past and future
in the present.

If one art object cannot completely
supplement another so that the extent
of reality as a whole is known, aes-
thetics, which is art generalized and
geparated from the limitations of con-
crete existence, can nevertheless com-
pass the whole which art can possi-
bly. reveal. The main problem of aes-
thetics if considered in this light, is
to understand the expressive powers
of the different media which art em-
ploys. These fall into two basic
classes—the spatial and the temporal.

The spatial arts, such as architecture,
present a single object which em-
bodies at once the accumulative. sig-
nificance of the steps by which it was
achieved. The temporal arts, such as
music, on the other hand, present a
series of .elements whose ° accumula-
tive effect is present only in a
retentive mind. There must be a way
of bridging the gap between the two,
a way of presenting a spatial art so
that its meaning will be apprehended
by the succession of its parts and of
spatially presenting a temporal art
so that its accumulative effect will
not be lost.

Before the answer to this problem
can be discovered, a means must be
found to transmute the - different
forms of spatial art into one aygother
and likewise with the fotms of tem-
poral art. It is not to be inferred
from this that each art form is de-
nied to have a function and a flavor
of its own, but there is to be in-
ferred a possibility that the meaning
which one expresses may be expressed
again in another, ‘not by duplication,
but by readjustment of the new me-
dium. A knowledge of the capacities
of each medium is therefore neces-
sary, an understanding of the varia-
tions possible’ in’ each. Only when
this is possessed can the investig&tion
advance to the creation of a formula







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Haverford Ho

April 22.—Speeches by Joseph Tay-
lor, ’°36, Professor Richard M. Fulton
and Raymond Wilson, assistant direc-
tor of the Peace Division of the Amer-
ican Friends Service Committee, com-
pose the program for the peace
demonstration held at Haverford Col-
lege at ‘11 o’clock today. Munitions,
neutrality legislation and the aboli-
tion of compulsory military service
are the specific issues concerned.



by which one medium can reproduce
the significance of another. That
such a formula is not impossible is
demonstrated by modern. ‘logicians,
who have at least fore-shadowed the
way to an understanding of how all
the different kinds of speech and ar-
guments which men use could be re-
duced'to one another. If by 4 similar
method, a principle for transmuting
arts of a single class into each other

might be found, by such a method ‘

still, some principle for bridging the
spatial and temporal classes. them-
selves might be possible of discovery,
some aesthetic formula defining the
whole field of art. But without the
discipline of logic, nothing like this
can be attained.







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Ids Peace Program! PRE. COLLEGE GUIDANCE

| CONFERENCE SCHEDULED



Representatives of thirteen women’s
colleges, including Bryn Mawr, will
attend a Pre-College’ Guidance Con-
ference in advisory capacities on April
23, 24, 25 and 26. The conference is
being held at the New Jersey College
for Women in New Brunswick, N. J.
’ The purpose of the conference is to
give preparatory hool students a

i foretaste of college life and an oppor-

tunity to talk personally with, college
women and professional advisors.
The girls live in the dormitories
have their meals in the college com-
mons. They follow a regular college
program, attending classes, labora-



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