Apelles : Hellenistic Greek painter regarded as the greatest of his time.
... s genius, no Macbeth, no Lear, would he be so great a dramatic artist and creator as he now is? It is in the varying possibilities of one subject or another that there lies an immense difference. Apelles' grapes deceived the birds that came to peck at them, but there was more aesthetic content in the Zeus of Phidias, a greater content of consciousness and therefore of Ananda to express and with it ...
... genius, no Macbeth, no Lear, would he be so great a dramatic artist and creator as he now is ? It is in the varying possibilities of one subject or another that there lies an immense difference. Apelles' 1 grapes deceived the birds that came to peck at them, but there was more aesthetic content in the Zeus ofPheidias, 2 a greater content of Consciousness and therefore of Ananda to express and ...
... reproduce, for example, the poise of the neck which was tilted slightly to the left, or a certain melting look in his eyes, and the artist has exactly caught these peculiarities. On the other hand when Apelles painted Alexander wielding a thunderbolt, he did not reproduce his colouring at all accurately. He made Alexander's complexion appear too dark-skinned and swarthy, whereas we are told that he was ...
... s genius, no Macbeth, no Lear, would he be so great a dramatic artist and creator as he now is? It is in the varying possibilities of one subject or another that there lies an immense difference. Apelles' grapes deceived the birds that came to peck at them, but there was more aesthetic content in the Zeus of Pheidias... . 80 Or he can, in the course of a few lines, balance the merits of ...
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