Art, Symbol & Imagination
Appreciation of a Picture and Meeting a Friend
Art appreciation and reunion appear together on this paired plate, although their figure numbers run in reverse order. The upper image, figure 36, combines the authors' colours for intellectual interest, sympathy and devotion in an account of looking at a religious picture. Below it, figure 35 spreads a rose-and-green crescent around a yellow centre to express the welcome offered to a friend after a long separation. Their juxtaposition shows how the same symbolic palette serves aesthetic and personal experience within the book's theory, without establishing that either feeling produces a measurable coloured object.
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"Appreciation of a Picture and Meeting a Friend" [editorial title]. In Thought-Forms, Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater. 1905, Theosophical Publishing Society. Source scan leaf 45. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/art-thought-picture-friend
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
The original panel order, figure 36 above figure 35, is preserved. Interpretations follow the accompanying primary text.
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Appreciation of a Picture and Meeting a Friend. Thought-Forms. Scan leaf 45. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/art-thought-picture-friend