Shama’a October 1922

The movements of the heart in its enjoyment of action its own and that of others may either be directed dowwards as is the case with the animals and animal men to the mere satisfaction ofOCTOBER I922] THE NATIONAL VALUE OF ART 5 the ten-sense organs and the vital desires which make instruments of the senses in the average sensual man or they may work for the satisfaction of the heart itse [...] The spirit of old Indian Art must be recovered the inspiration and directness of vision which even now subsists among theOCTOBEk ia22] THE NATIONAL VALUE OF ART 11 possessors of the ancient traditions the inborn skill and taste of the race the dexterity of the Indian hand and the intuitive gaze of the Indian eye must be recovered and the whole nation lifted again to the high level of the ancie [...] Indian Art demands of the artist the power of communion with the soul of things the sense of spiritual taking precedence of the sense of material beauty and fidelity to the deeper vision within of the lover of art it demands the power to see the spirit in things the openness of mind to follow a developing tradition and the sattvic passivity discharged of prejudgments which opens luminously t [...] This was the annual show of the school of painting at the head of which stands one of the foremost Japanese artists of the day Yokohama Taikwan mho is in the opinion of many on of the two leaders of progressive classical art in Japan the other being Shirnomura Kanzan. [...] THE KING What what ? THE JESTER RVI'EATS 1T THE KING Fool the king is called Brahmadatta and the city Kampilya ! THE JESTER Oh the king is Brahmadatta and the city Kampilya! THE KING Of course.