la mission de l’art in english

“The world of art is hard­ly less var­i­ous­ly peo­pled than the wider world of pol­i­tics and af­fairs. No painter, no writer, can ever please all artists, and M. Delville, es­pe­cial­ly, by his un­flinch­ing ad­her­ence to ide­al­ism, has en­coun­tered for many years much ridicule or abuse from the sup­port­ers of oth­er schools.”
—Clif­ford Bax, from the pref­ace to the Eng­lish trans­la­tion, 1910
 

A rare per­spec­tive of an an­ti­mod­ernist talk­ing against nat­u­ral­ism, im­pres­sion­ism, re­al­ism and art that ne­glects form!

I want­ed to or­der a leather bound Jean Delville in Eng­lish but wasn’t fast enough and now it’s gone and they only have the val­ued au­thor se­lec­tion print now. 😞

wauw, here is a dig­i­tal copy.

I want­ed the whole thing in pris­tine con­di­tion. It’s quite dif­fer­ent from a real book. I should or­der it. 

But read on! 

And ask your­self, how does this ap­ply today?

And what can we do?

Just sit and watch the spec­ta­cle they are mak­ing of themselves.
 
 

—aey­lyeaelle ell­he de ellendeh

Flom­mist Aey­lyeaelle Ell­he De El­len­deh is a ne­oro­man­tic and neosym­bol­ist artist and philoso­pher, stud­ied sculpt­ing at The Roy­al Acad­e­my of Dec­o­ra­tive Arts of Antwerp Bel­gium, He de­cried ac­tu­al­ly hav­ing fall­en in love stand­ing be­fore the Psy­che of Leighton in Lon­don, hav­ing cried over the Sleep­ing Beau­ty by Suss­mann hell­born and hav­ing spir­i­tu­al re­li­gious af­fec­tions for the Sphinc Mys­terieux by Charles van der Stap­pen. Dec­o­ra­tive sculp­tor and Au­thor of a neosym­bol­ist mythol­o­gy on Kant­ian per­cep­tion, on the imag­i­na­tion, in­spi­ra­tion, art, deca­dence, es­thet­ics and pas­sion, hate, mis­an­thropy main­ly. Heav­i­ly in­flu­enced by Huys­mans A re­bours and Schopen­hauers refuge in art as Sades will to free erotics. He in­vent­ed the Eif­fel tow­er sev­er­al times the size of the cur­rent one in paris to launch trains into space in an art nou­veau way. He in­vent­ed can­dles on re­mote con­trol. He in­vent­ed a game of chess with over 200 pieces per play­er and in an en­tire­ly clas­si­cal and de­scent set­up. With a line of Bish­ops, an Army, an­gels, boul­ders, with tow­ers that need to be de­fend­ed for­ward to launch the boul­ders, with a court, and a high­er court with Elvin, Elvin King, Em­per­or, Em­press and vam­pire of melan­choly and a vam­pire le­gion. He is a self de­clared mad­man and of­fi­cial­ly de­clared in­sane by the state of Bel­gium deu to his ro­man­tic up­risals. De­sign­er and ar­chi­tect of the fu­ture city of Anae­htheana, which is best de­scribed as the most beau­ti­ful and lux­u­ri­ous place ever de­vised, with the con­crete bridges done again in mar­ble, a wild zoo where the high­way is now. And a for­ti­fied vat­i­can in­spired wall for a le­gion of Joans of Arc he is try­ing to call. Among that, he is call­ing upon all ar­che­types cur­rent­ly in cos­play goth­ic and mu­sic to build, among oth­er things, a Vam­pire Lane with goth­ic schools, goth­ic mu­se­ums and goth­ic lounges and palaces. And an Angh an­gel fortress. It is his one and only and fi­nal mis­sion to re­place all com­mer­cial bill­boards with ro­man­tic and aca­d­e­m­ic paint­ings. Etc … Copy­right © 2018 Aey­lyeaelle Ell­he De Ellendeh.‬

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