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cushion takes the shape of terrible monsters,
such as Gothic dragons and serpents; and one
night after I have spent a hilarious evening, I
am greeted on my return by a mediæval demon,
a devil with horned head and other
appurtenances. I was not at all frightened; it
looked so natural, but it also made on my
mind the impression of something abnormal and
unearthly.
When I invited my friend the sculptor to look
at it, he was not at all astonished, and called
me into his studio, where a pencil sketch hanging
on the wall surprised me by its grace of
outline.
“Where have you got that from?” I asked.
“A Madonna, isn’t it?”
“Yes, a Madonna of Versailles, copied from
the floating plants in a Swiss lake!”
A new-discovered art of nature! Naturalistic
clairvoyance! Why blame naturalism when it
introduces a new art full of capacities of growth
and development. The old gods return, and the
watchword of the poets and artists, “Back to
Pan!” has roused such a strong echo that nature
has awoken from her long sleep of centuries.
Nothing can exist on earth without the concurrence
of the powers. Now naturalism did once
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