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HE Arts of Design are usually 

 named as three : architecture, 

 sculpture, and painting. It is 

 the popular belief that a man 

 who practises one of these is an artist, and 

 that other men who work with forms and 

 colors are at the best but artisans. Yet 

 there is a fourth Art of Design which well 

 deserves to rank with them, for it demands 

 quite as much in the way of aesthetic feel- 

 ing, creative power, and executive skill. 

 This is the art which creates beautiful com- 

 positions upon the surface of the ground. 



The mere statement of its purpose should 

 show that it is truly an art. The effort to 

 ■produce organic beauty is what makes a man 

 an artist ; neither the production of a merely 

 useful organism nor of a beautiful isolated 

 detail can suffice ; he must compose a beau- 

 tiful whole with a number of related parts. 

 Therefore, while he who raises useful crops 



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