The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 3 (of 4): Hegel's Aesthetik
Georg Hegel · en
[Footnote 273: _Das Beisichseyn der Liebe im Absoluten._ Lit., the
self-inherency cf Love within the Absolute.]
[Footnote 274: _Sondern auch selbständig._ He seems to mean that they
receive from this relation the subsistent individuality of spirit. This
reference to landscape is obviously very perfunctory and insufficient.]
[Footnote 275: See vol. I, p. 220.]
[Footnote 276: _Mit dem in sich particularisirten Innern._ With the
ideal complexus of particular objects as related to one subject. Their
particularity is due to their characterization, and that is dependent
on idealization.]
[Footnote 277: _Diess Verwachsenseyn._ Lit., this growing up with.]
[Footnote 278: There is, however, the aspect of consummate execution
which in itself is a very real source of artistic enjoyment, and Hegel
rather seems to overlook this here.]
[Footnote 279: _Verzweigungen._ All off-shoots of attention or
interest.]
[Footnote 280: Of course, even in the painting of still life, artistic
composition itself implies by its selection and subordination to an
idea a new result. And the characteristic technique of a painter
inevitably has the same result.]
[Footnote 281: _Geistigen Ausdrück._]
[Footnote 282: _Grundlage._]
[Footnote 283: It is perhaps rather strange that Hegel should have
considered the Dutch and Flemish schools as pre-eminently colourists.
Apart from Rembrandt the truth is not very apparent. But he was mainly
thinking of their dexterity in the lighting of a picture and the
scintillation of colour.]
[Footnote 284: That is, as black and white and its gradations.]
[Footnote 285: It is not quite clear what is intended here by
_Vervielfältigung_, probably power of being adapted to various subject
matter and modes of expression.]
[Footnote 286: It is hardly necessary to point out that this
discussion, being based on Goethe's false theory of colour in
opposition to Newton's prismatic analysis, has no scientific value,
though historically of interest. The blueness of the sky is due to the
blue rays being detained.]
[Footnote 287: I presume by concrete unity Hegel refers in some form to
a unity that is such owing to its intrinsic nature.]
[Footnote 288: But red quite as often symbolizes enthusiasm and love,
and in Tintoret's Paradise the Virgin has the red tunic and the blue
mantle.]
[Footnote 289: As a matter of fact violet or purple is a cardinal
colour.]
[Footnote 290: Green is not a cardinal colour.]
[Footnote 291: Hegel seems to have in view the Flemish school rather
than the Dutch in the restricted sense. It is rather strange that he
should dwell on this rather than work of the Venetians such as Bellini.]
[Footnote 292: _Verschwemmte._ Carried away by a stream.]
[Footnote 293: Such as Ary Scheffer and others of the same monotony.
The flesh tints of Leighton and Poynter and many less men suffer in the
same way.]