]--once more a non-artistic appeal. To
set this red horse in a careful naturalistic landscape would
create such a discord as to produce no appeal and no coherence.
The need for coherence is the essential of harmony--whether
founded on conventional discord or concord. The new harmony
demands that the inner value of a picture should remain unified
whatever the variations or contrasts of outward form or colour.
The elements of the new art are to be found, therefore, in the
inner and not the outer qualities of nature.
The spectator is too ready to look for a meaning in a picture--
i.e., some outward connection between its various parts. Our
materialistic age has produced a type of spectator or
"connoisseur," who is not content to put himself opposite a
picture and let it say its own message. Instead of allowing the
inner value of the picture to work, he worries himself in looking
for "closeness to nature," or "temperament," or "handling," or
"tonality," or "perspective," or what not. His eye does not probe
the outer expression to arrive at the inner meaning. In a
conversation with an interesting person, we endeavour to get at
his fundamental ideas and feelings.
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