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\n\n\n
\n\t\t\t <\/p>\n

\n Section Two <\/font><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

\n  <\/p>\n

\n On the Visual Arts
\n  
\n  
\n<\/font><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\n

\n  <\/p>\n

\n General Remarks on the Visual Arts <\/font><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

\n  <\/p>\n

\n Art and Nature<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

\n  <\/p>\n

\nThere is no incompatibility between the inspiration from within and the dependence on Nature. The essence of the inspiration
\nalways comes from within but the forms of expression are based on Nature though developed and modified by the selective or
\ninterpretative sight of the artist.<\/p>\n

\n 6 September 1933 <\/font><\/p>\n

\n *<\/p>\n

\n  <\/p>\n

\nA painter can certainly bring home the aspects of the sea and
\nthe beauty of Nature, but he does it as an artist, in the way of Art. He does it by representation and suggestion, not by mere
\nreproduction of the object. The question of Art or Nature being more beautiful therefore does not arise. <\/p>\n

16 March 1936 <\/font> <\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n

\nArt cannot give what Nature gives; it gives something else. <\/p>\n

20 June 1934
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n <\/p>\n


\n\t\t\tOn Nandalal Bose’s Ideas on Art <\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Nandalal Bose says: “In art three points are essential. We may
\nsay that the top point of the triangle is inspiration and the two points of the base are the study of nature and the study
\nof tradition.” <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nNandalal’s saying is true; but the three have to be combined and
\ndeveloped and harmonised in their combination to a sufficient degree before they bear the fruit of finished or great art. <\/p>\n

10 January 1936 <\/font> <\/p>\n

\n  <\/p>\n

\n*<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\tPage-685<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

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In a letter to me, Nandalal wrote of love as “the only thing for Art”. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nIt is a way of speaking, I suppose, in accordance with his own experience. It is the creative Force which he calls Love
\n―others
\nmight call it by another name because they see it in another aspect. <\/p>\n

4 November 1933 <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Inspiration and the Vital <\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

For the last two or three days I have been getting inspirations for painting. But I have a question about that. Do these
\ninspirations come from the vital world? Is this harmful? <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nIt is of course vital. All art comes through the vital. But what
\nmanifests through it can only be said when one sees what it produces. <\/p>\n

7 November 1933 <\/font><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Form and Colour
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nIn order to get a significance through a picture there must be a definite form ―form and colour are the essentials of painting
\nand neither by itself is enough. Here [in a painting sent to Sri<\/i> Aurobindo<\/i>] there is colour but no form
\n―or only a shapeless
\nshape ―as if you were trying to get rid of form and paint only forces or indefinite suggestions. But that is contrary to an art
\nwhich depends on colour, line and design. <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nCinema
\n<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\nI see no objection to your going for two or three days to Madras for this purpose [to make a recording<\/i>]. I don’t suppose you will
\npaint the town red and the Cinema sounds harmless, though if the newspaper pictures are any guide, it is likely to be disappointing; I have yet to see anything that really suggested an artistic piece. <\/p>\n

28 November 1936  
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 <\/p>\n

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