ABSTRACT

This interrelationship, moreover, reveals itself in a dynamic process in which each and every art medium organically affects and is affected by the others. An artist is to a large extent conditioned by the dom inant intellectual and aesthetic forces of his own culture. Perhaps for this reason it might be said that such a thing as purely ‘personal’ art is impossible. Though it is true that the looser the cohesion between individuals in society the less com­ munal and hence more individualistic will be the artist’s product (1).