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iHE 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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