Art Out-of-Doors 



In naturalistic work such as this, I say, we 

 may carelessly admire the result while for- 

 getting that an artist wrought it. But, on 

 the other hand, when an artist has essayed 

 the formal, architectural style of garden- 

 ing, and has disposed Nature's materials in 

 frankly non-natural ways, his activity will 

 be recognized, but, in our country at least, 

 few will stop to consider whether it has been 

 artistic or not. A more or less intelligent 

 love for natural beauty is very common wdth 

 us while good judgment in art is very rare. 

 Therefore — and especially as we are unac- 

 customed to thinking of art out-of-doors at 

 all — we do not understand that in certain 

 situations a formal design may be the best. 

 Seeing that it is not Nature's work, or like 

 Nature's work, we condemn it as a wilful 

 misuse of good natural material. We recog- 

 nize man's product, but we do not appreci- 

 ate any beauty that it may possess. 



Again, gardening - art differs from all 

 others in the unstable character of its re- 

 sults. When surfaces are modelled and 

 plants arranged. Nature and the artist must 

 still work a long time together before the 



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