Art (Clive Bell)
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"let no one imagine, because he has made merry in the warm tilth and quaint nooks of romance, that he can even guess at the austere and thrilling raptures of those who have climbed the cold, white peaks of art." --Art (1914) |
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Art (1914) is a work by Clive Bell.
Significant form
Soon after Bell met Roger Fry, he developed his art theory called "significant form". The two shared a passion for contemporary French art. Bell's book Art (1914) was the first publication of his theory, which he describes as "lines and colours combined in a particular way, certain forms, and relations of forms, that stir our aesthetic emotions." This form can be seen in art created by many members of the Bloomsbury Group, an example being Interior at Gordon Square by Duncan Grant.