ABSTRACT
The aesthetic situation will consist of the felt materials with their forms, and the expression of those materials and forms. A felt situation could hardly be imagined that were without felt materials in some felt design or other, as in a perceived painting. The alleged form that were the proper and peculiar referent of the phrase “form as such” would be at once common to and distinct from any determinate form such as this case of chiasmos, or any other determinate form such as that of an alternate sequence of hues. The objection that this is no reason at all because the reason why a being of any sort is properly called by this term rather than that one must be something distinct from that being itself, would seem to be short-sighted. Criticism of painting and sculpture is sometimes confined almost exclusively to matters of referential expression and to considerations of an historical nature.
