 In accordance with these theoretical assumptions, Schlegel was very negative about naturalistic neo-classicist tendencies in art. He praised wholeness and poetical unity as well as originality in a work of art. For Schlegel, similarly as for Baumgarten, the magic of a work of art is that it creates and hence brings us into a different world, with all its own internal coherence. It is in this sense that a work of art is organic and complete. The purpose of a work of art should therefore not be to reflect the real world with naturalism, but rather to create its own world, which could never be a question of applying a set of rules and principles to a particular matter (paintings, words, marble), such as classicist aesthetics seemed to suggest. The search for naturalism and plausibility, in an attempt at producing the most true and real representation of reality, makes art lose its greatness, beauty, and wonder.