The Nature of the Fine Arts Author:Henry Parker General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1885 Original Publisher: Macmillan Subjects: Art Arts Aesthetics Art / General Art / Criticism Art / History / General Philosophy / Aesthetics Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missin... more »g text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. REALISTIC THEORY. THOUGH Horace first put the comparison between painting and poetry in such a shape as to make it permanent, Aristotle had anticipated him in a more philosophic investigation of the relation of these arts to each other. There are, in his Poetic Art, the rudiments, though only the rudiments, of a theory of the Fine Arts. Creative, or poetic, art was, it is there said, born of the union of two tendencies which are innate in mankind, coireari 8e yevvrjcrai fiev oXw? Ttjv 7roirjnKrjv ai-rlai 8vo rives Kal avrai fvTiKai. To re yap fiifieiTdai crvfifvTov Tok avdpanrois K TralSiov ecrrl, Kal Tovtco Siafepovcri r« less