This man believed that the greatest artworks were the ones that conveyed "to the mind of the spectator the greatest number of the greatest ideas", and went on to classify these great ideas in the categories of Power, Imagination, Truth, Beauty, and Relation.
This man believed that the greatest artworks were the ones that conveyed "to the mind of the spectator the greatest number of the greatest ideas", and went on to classify these great ideas in the categories of Power, Imagination, Truth, Beauty, and Relation. He developed his philosophy of art in works like Val d'Arno, The Eagle's Nest, Aratra Pentelici, and The Bible of Amiens. FTP, who is this 19th century art critic, author of The Stones of Venice?
This man believed that the greatest artworks were the ones that conveyed "to the mind of the spectator the greatest number of the greatest ideas", and went on to classify these great ideas in the categories of Power, Imagination, Truth, Beauty, and Relation.
John Ruskin