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Kenneth Clark: \u201cFacts become art through love, which unifies them and lifts them to a higher plane of reality.\u201d <\/p>\n
Almost right, that. <\/p>\n
Right on the link between artifice (poetry, courtesy, ornamentation) and love. Right too on the unifying metaphoricity of art. Right too on the link of fact and art. <\/p>\n
Not quite right, it seems, on two points. First, on the (perhaps) implied positivism of the use of \u201cfacts,\u201d for we never encounter bare facts (facts barren of love and artifice) , facts are themselves God\u2019s poesis <\/em> , and art itself is supremely factual ( factum <\/em> , made). Second, on the \u201celevation\u201d to a \u201chigher plane.\u201d That\u2019s too allegorical, whereas I\u2019d want to say art is typological. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kenneth Clark: \u201cFacts become art through love, which unifies them and lifts them to a higher plane of reality.\u201d Almost right, that. Right on the link between artifice (poetry, courtesy, ornamentation) and love. Right too on the unifying metaphoricity of art. Right too on the link of fact and art. Not quite right, it seems, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"yoast_head":"\n