Clive Bell
Clive Bell
Arthur Clive Heward Bellwas an English art critic, associated with formalism and the Bloomsbury Group. Bell died, aged 83, in London...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth16 September 1881
appreciation art ideas
The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate a work of art, we must bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its affairs and ideas, no familiarity with its emotions.
color shapes mixing
It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.
beautiful art mean
We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.
discovery cezanne columbus
Cezanne is the Christopher Columbus of a new continent of form.
mistake work class
Do not mistake a crowd of big wage earners for the leisure class.