PAINTING Music, we find, substantiates our conclusion on the nature of the experience of beauty. Is this conclusion also supported by the other arts? Pater claims that all art aspires to the condition of music; hence, if Pater is right, what is true of music also holds for the other arts. Our problem is therefore to see why Pater places music in that supreme position among the arts, and then examine his contention in the light of whatever evidence is available, but particularly from that of painting. The Testimony of the History of Painting The Aesthetic Element in Painting The Aesthetic Experience in Painting Poor Art and Rich Art Poetry Pissarro		Home The Nature and Objective of Aesthetics Art and the Artist The Art Work The Art Work in the Making The Creative Mind Art and the Artist Art and the Layman The Experience of Beauty Beauty in Music Painting