XVI. DEPARTMENT : 



CALLO TECHNICS. 



IN the department of Callotechnics, we comprehend those arts of 

 ornament and amusement which relate to material objects, and hence 

 depend upon materials and instruments for their exercise. The name 

 is derived from the Greek, xaxoj, beautiful, or xaMoj, beauty ; and te xv*ii 

 an art : and the term Fine Arts, is chiefly applied to this group ; which 

 is here made to include Printing, Painting, Sculpture, Music, and 

 Argics, or active amusements. These arts have close relations with 

 Poetry and Romance, or Callography ; and they are accordingly 

 assigned to the final place in the study of the material world, as Cal- 

 lography was in the intellectual : but they differ essentially in the 

 means which they employ to produce the same ideas or emotions ; 

 the one acting through the medium of the senses ; the other directly 

 upon the imagination. 



Painting and Sculpture, have many principles of taste in common 

 not only with Architecture and Horticulture, which are sometimes 

 ranked as fine arts, but also with Vestiture and Furniture, in their 

 more ornamental productions. There is, however, this distinction 

 between them ; that while these latter arts are chiefly subservient to 

 utility, or the physical wants of man, the former are designed chiefly 

 for intellectual gratification. This distinction also applies to Music, 

 and to Argics, including gymnastic exercises and games of chance 

 and skill : and it may be extended, though with less force, to the art 

 of Printing, for which the present department has seemed the most 

 appropriate place. The close connection of writing and printing 

 with drawing and engraving, is another reason for the arrangement 

 here adopted; especially as books, the joint production of these arts, 

 are really specimens of the Fine Arts, and greatly contribute to our 

 intellectual gratification. 



The characteristic arts, embraced in this group, have often been 

 termed Imitative Arts ; a term which belongs to them in common 

 with various others. It is true that Painting and Sculpture imitate 

 shapes and colors, and Music imitates sounds and motions ; and 

 hence arises one source of the pleasure which these arts afford. But 

 they are imitative in a higher sense than this ; that is to say, in 

 copying abstract nature, and representing objects not merely as they 

 do exist, or have existed ; but as they might be supposed to exist, 

 under any imagined circumstances or conditions. In this sense, they 

 are properly termed Creative Arts ; as producing representations 

 which have no original in nature ; and thus enlarging the boundaries 



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