Wilde thought poetry was superior to the graphic arts for what reasons? Evaluate your complaints.STUDENTSSend an instant message.Phone number not available. See all available user details.Send an internal web study mail.No external webpage available.In "The Critic as an Artist", Oscar Wilde writes that literature is superior to the graphic arts, because unlike to paintings of sunsets, portraits, or other related art forms, literature is "soul speaking to soul in these long, cadenced lines, not only through form and color...but with an intellectual and emotional statement, with high passion and higher thought, with imaginative insight and with poetic purpose” (2289). Wilde goes on to express that there is nothing really special about graphic art. People might try to interpret, for example, the meaning of a sculpture and think it has a deeper meaning than it actually does. Wilde believes that artists who paint or sculpt simply make their art because it is pleasing to the eye, with colors that complement each other or "simply with certain arrangements of lines and masses" (2290), and that "it "It is rather the spectator who lends the beautiful thing its myriad meanings" (2290). He says that art is very beautiful, but because it has no real meaning and is simply open to various interpretations by everyone, it is inferior to literature, which "shows us...not only the meaning but also the mystery of beauty, and… resolves once and for all the problem of the unity of art" (2293).Advanced answer4/4/2014 11:19:05 AM RE: LITERATURE VS. THE GRAPHIC ARTSKELLEE MCKINNEYSTUDENTSend Instant Message Phone Number Not Available See All Available User Details.Send Web Study Internal Mail.No External We...... middle of paper.... ..argues that lying is a requisite of art, because without it there is nothing but basic realism. The test in which the novel finds itself in England, Wilde asserts, is that writers don't lie enough; they don't have enough imagination in their works: "they find life crude and leave it crude." imitates art much more than art imitates life.” Although perhaps and obviously exaggerating the fact, Wilde convincingly discusses the many ways in which our perceptions of reality are affected by the art we have experienced, an idea adapted from the poet and critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge and d other earlier English romantics. But in everything he thinks, poetry can be expressed more easily and much more widely than art itself, art can only be art and be seen as it is, but the poetry can be expressed in many other ways..