The Visva-Bharati Quarterly May 1935 (New Series)

Such heroic activity over the greater part of the Eastern continent clearly answers the question : what is art —Art is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the real. [...] We can see from the Gandhara figures of Buddha that the artistic influence of Greece put its emphasis on the scientific aspect on anatomical accuracy while the purely indian mind dwelt on the symbolic aspect and tried to give expression to the soul of Buddha never acknowledging the limitaions of realism6 THE VISVA-BHARATI QUARTERLY '[ Map 1935 To the adventirewbokirit of the great European sc [...] H. H. Horne in The Philosophy of Education had to confess that aesthetical education is the most neglected feature of our curriculum and yet it stands as an essential constituent of the child's present and future environment and is the product of one of the deepest phases of the human consciousness." It is not far from certain that the neglect of an essential human constituent in the preparin [...] What is needed is ( to use a suggestive figure of speech that is becoming healthily frequent in educational literature) the "canalising" of the floods of emotion that is the putting of them under control in definite directions to the vitalising of thought and action instead of letting them work havoc on their way to futility or to disappearance in "the dreary desert sand of dead habit." The d [...] On this side crowd the bamboo the mango tree the patriarchal banian ; the obsolete but in ruins ; the aged jack tree of a massive trunk ; the mustard field on the slope of the pond ; the cane bush round the ditch by the lane; the remnant walls of an indigo planttion clinging to a silenced time its row of casuarinas murmuring day and night in the forsaken garden.