ABSTRACT
Leaving literature for the present, the author thinks that most of the major art forms, in their most common manifestations in Western culture, can be divided into two groups. First is the group, which includes painting and sculpture, where the creative artist himself normally fashions the object which is the work of art. Second group of arts exists, including music, theatre, ballet, and opera in their standard forms, in which the audience or spectators do not witness, without any intermediaries, the work made by the creative artist. There is a need for executant's artists, with a serious aesthetic role as interpreters. It would be theoretically possible to devise a painting notation so that a creative artist could give a set of instructions for executant painters to follow and produce a set of equally valid interpretations of the painting, analogous to musical performances.
