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 forms, appreciate an "incorrect" anatomy, and look upon arbitrary proportions not as distortions but rather as "restorations," should find an affinity with the work of the Hindu masters. And the psychology of this post-impressionist art-credo is perfectly natural, because like the previous pre-Raphaelitism and the still earlier romanticism, the new art movement is essentially a revolt. It is a reaction against the Academicians' rule of thumb. It is born of a Bolshevistic discontent with the things that be, and of a desire to search for truth and beauty from far and old.

This latest revolution against the status quo of art was brought about when Gauguin, the French master, conceived "the truth that the modern European and his like all over the globe,