ABSTRACT
In music, architecture, and the minor arts, the object is fabricated in accordance with the dictates of its intrinsic form. The object's material, while in poetry, sculpture, and painting the artist is influenced, not only by the intrinsic form of his raw materials, but also by their extrinsic form, by the subject they are intended to represent. Roger Fry considers form to be the most essential feature in the graphic arts, an arrangement of line and colour which combines both 'order and 'variety'. Although the Kantian aesthetic is by no means consistent in its attitude to beauty, at one moment at least it appears definitely formalistic. The judgment of taste, being determined by the mere feeling of the free play between cognitive faculties, excludes as a possible determinant all concepts or universals, and so makes the utility or perfection of an object quite irrelevant to its artistic value.
