F. Wellington Ruckstuhl: Idealism and Realism Art[1]
There is no term so vague as Idealism. No sat is factory definition of the word has ever been made; because since Plato and Aristotle wrote, hundreds of writers on Metaphysics and Philosophy have handled the subject of Idealism in Life and Art, and so enmeshed and obscured the matter, that it is of no practical use for the layman to wade through the oceans of speculative and transcendental writing on the subject.
Idealism has often been confounded