Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.137

c12.137

extraneous effects to make himself appreciated by his public. He is the exponent of national art-culture, not a specialist shut up in a narrow domain of knowledge from which the world at large is excluded. He, therefore, can be sure that a suggestion of his own thought-impressions will evoke a response from his public, just as a note of music finds a response in every wire tuned to the same pitch through which the vibration passes. Relying on this knowledge of sympathetic response in his public, he develops his representation of the natural facts and phenomena which form the framework of his art just to the point at which he knows it will communicate to others the exact impression which exists in his own mind, and does not attempt a laboured and superfluous explanation of irrevelant facts. The imagination of the public he is addressing supplies the complement of the imagination of the artist.