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THE private view of this year's Exhibition of the Royal Academy took place on Friday, May 4. The juxtaposition of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy suggests something deeper than the accident of both being dependent upon the patronage of the wealthy and the hospitality of the State. On either side of the wall that separates the academies of art and science the work is alike also in this-the impulse of the worker is to represent and thereby to preserve the visions that he has seen, that others might have seen if they had been gifted with the insight that sees things hidden from the rest of the world by the blinding candour of Nature. One uses paint or clay, and the other the printing-press or the experimental table; and however dependent either may be on the smile of the wealthy or the favour of the potentate for the means to “carry on,” the satisfaction of achievement in the effort to express what they alone have seen with the mind's eye redresses for either the adverse balance of many an account. A year's Proceedings of the Royal Society show what the fellows wish to hand on to posterity as expressing their searching into Nature: so the yearly exhibition at Burlington House represents the messages to which the artists of to-day have dedicated their power of insight.
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The Royal Academy, 1923. Nature 111, 642–643 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111642a0
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