The Tenth Muse (Excerpts)

(. . .) The cinema is certainly not a pure and emphatic art as is painting and can only be ascribed to what Holzapfal terms inauthentic arts, i.e., those which work with given matenrials ot nature (gardening, art of actor, pedagogy) and which can, in his opinion, scale even greater heights than the arts proper. The artistic element is inherent in arrangement, direction, and of course filming of cinegrammes, but it can also stem from fact that events drawn raw and neat from real world can create impression of beauty, like mountains or sea. If we consider latter case, we will notice that whereas painting corresponds to beauty of unmoved mountains, beauty of sea particularly beauty of a storm at sea or waves breaking against rocks corresponds to which art? There is something missing here. (.. .)

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