This landmark principle, "All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves," was stated by Eli Siegel, the American poet, critic, and educator, who founded Aesthetic Realism. It is the basis of the museum art and anthropology classes we teach together. And this principle, we've seen, is the means for people to have large emotions from the art of every continent—including styles unfamiliar to them— and to see people of other cultures with authentic depth and kindness
