[41] A third name might be added: that of Manuel de Falla, Spain’s leading composer and a pure Andalusian, also. Falla in tonal structures hard, fluid, irreducible, conveys into æsthetic form elements of life that are very close to those which we shall consider in Picasso and Jiménez. He may be said to recreate the body of Andalusian folk-song, as Picasso recreates physical shapes and Jiménez physical sensations, into a new arabesque.
[42] I—at least—know of no Forms, in the east, so great as (to choose haphazard) the Medieval Church of Rome, the Gothic Cathedral, Dante’s Poem, the music of Palestrina and of Bach, the Ethic of Spinoza. Yet the concepts in these Forms are invariably of the east.
[43] Æsthetic creation is an act from the unitary self upon the objective world. It is the contrary of analysis which breaks up that world—unreally. But analysis may precede creation, if the elements broken up by it are reabsorbed and fused into a new subjective unity.
[44] Born in 1881.
Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:
Mckor Hayim=> Makor Hayim {pg 113}
Mekor Hayim=> Makor Hayim {pg 159}