The Developing of Art 



things that man sees about him while the deeper emotions 

 are expressed in Music, Poetry and the Drama which tran- 

 scend the material forms and carry our souls away for a 

 glimpse into the realms of the Infinite. 



The spark of genius that enters into the inner con- 

 sciousness of some persons and that gives to them the power 

 to re-create the things of Nature can not be explained by 

 any of the laws of psychology but they are mental processes 

 in tune with the Creative Mind which can not as yet be 

 explained. The spark of inspiration that gave to them 

 being may have been generated in a vision appearing to 

 some remote ancestor that set in motion the electronic 

 forces of the brain cells that continued to work through 

 succeeding generations until the plan was perfected and its 

 expression manifested in the genius of the Artist. It is 

 through these re-creations that man's soul is lifted up until 

 a glimpse of the perfect harmony of the Infinite may be seen. 



We are all creatures of our environments and those 

 living in one particular part of the world differ from those 

 living in another part of the world. There are differences 

 in races, food, clothing, shelter, language, habits and cus- 

 toms. These differences create different thoughts and dif- 

 ferent emotions and create different ideas of beauty. They 

 find expression in race feeling, environmental emotions and 

 racial standards of beauty and design. Because of these dif- 

 ferences, we find the arts of one country or one people differ- 

 ing from the arts of another country or people. Some excel 

 in one line while others excel in another. Again no two peo- 

 ple see an object from the same intellectual angle. Like "The 



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