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Title: The craftsman
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Art Arts and crafts movement
Publisher: New York (etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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wo Greek friends of longago, a noted sculptor and a painter. The former inquiredof the painter: ** Among your predecessors whom doyou select as worthy of imitation ? ^* The painter wavinghis hand toward a passing crowd, replied, ** There go mymodels! ** This anecdote epitomizes the experience of alloriginal and genuine art workers. The art that does notexpress the story of its own time and place is inferior. Certainly the life of our owntimes and country is as worthy of representation as thelife of any epoch, and the products of nature are as lavishand precious as they have ever been in the past. And if thewheels of accomplishment and attainment are hinderedunless men realize themselves at first hand through theirown experiments and experiences, then indeed let us wel-come L^Art Nouveau, not as a frivolity, any more thanthe Renascence was a frivolity, but as a step in a series ofexperimental movements toward a larger field for the playof human genius and the expression of personality.
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