ARTERY i CS) Be never has been given a completely satisfying and lasting verbal definition of art. Neither of beauty. Because both are qualities of the mind and have changed accordi to the varying conceptions, throughout the ages, of what thes | qualities consist of. Py The human mind always has been more conscious of things unbeauti r ful, because material. How then could it give satisfying expression 0 ° what art and beauty in absolute mentality are? i 4 Yet the artist if he wishes true self-expression, must, after freellll . himself from past and contemporary influences for himself, find an express the answer to the questions: what is art? What is beauty? | ) And rather not in the entanglements of verbal definition, but in th ate a medium in which he chooses his ideas to become comprehensible tf | one of the forms of fine arts. j Of course even if he only reflects mere intuition, the unsolved why (CONTINUED ON PAGE FIFTY-FIVE)