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About The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1902)
' "WA " i'1CVrm,9 '"r",gr'rv sr, -vr "3T5C-: "w-1.'.. 1J j-v. "s.. : . -f-t- vr THE DAILY NEBRASKA!. TflE DAILY NEBRASKAN A wsppr dToUd to the Interests of th Unlvarsllr of Nbm ska. Published at 131 North lltli St., by THE HESPERIAN PUB. CO. (IucortMritfld.) DIHKirrOKB: J. W. Crnfotro. President. I, L.Town.SecrotarY-Trasnrer. tjet, T. J. HOWOlt, li. VT. TTMOUUm. J.I. A CONSOLIDATION OK Tho Hohportun Vol XXXI 'I lit) NubniHkuii Vol XI Tlio HrurliM mill Cmmiiii Vol II Sttirllnn II. McCnw. K V. Iliirlwr. (jIiivh I. Taylor I rims K. W.-llHf MimnKlriK Editor toll lor lii-Clilof Huttlni'Hs MuiniKors ' The subscription price of the Dlly Nebres ken U f2 for the collejre r" with a refrular de llTorr before chapel eac day. Notices, com munications, and other mntter Intended for pub lication, must be handed In at the Nebraskan offlce before 7 p. m., or mailed to the editor be fore 8 p. m., of the day pretlous to that day on ,hich they are expected to appear Subscriptions may be left at the Nebmskan offlce, at the Co.Op., or with Business ManHanr Subscribers will confer a fator by reporting promptly at this offlce any failure to recelre the matter must be In by 3 p. m. on uie uaj punuu. .u. a which they are to appear. AddreM all communications to the Dally Ne fcraakaa, 184 N, lltk Bt., Lincoln, Nebraska, AH changes In adyertUIna; ra the offlce by 3 p. m. on the day Telephone 479. Kntort'd ut the post ofllco at Lincoln, Nclx lUijHorond class mall matter HOW TO LOOK AT PICTURES. Tho folio ivinir extracts from an ar tielo on art by Mrs. Schuyler Van Renssolaor will be of interest to tho many students who are now freuuent inu tlio art rooms: " The Art-(5ailery of the Pan-Amer ican Exposition contains, undoubted ly, tho best collection of American works of art that has ever boon gath ored. Such u collection deserves to bo approached In tho right mood and tho right manner. Tho fact that a picture docs not greatly please our own eyes should not convince us that lt'.is a poor pic ture. We do not decido in this way ' anout other thlnus. No ono'says," I don't care to rean a book of that kind therefore it Is a poor book;" nor, "That honnet is unbecoming to me -therefore lt'ls an uirly bonnet." Mut too often wo no say, "1 should not caru to buy that picture, to live with it therefore It can't be'a find picture." Rules for the discovering of true excellence cannot, of course, be laid down in words. They must he learned by educating the" mind and tlio eye in tlio presence of actual works of art. and, moreover, in the presence of Naturo also; for very few eyes untrained In art have ever really looked at Nature in such a way as to be entitled to trust thelrown testi mony in regard to the question whether or not an artist has truth fully pi rtrayed any phase of it. Nevertheless, ono general counsel can bo given'to the Inexperienced: Try to put yourself at the artist's point of view, try to understand what ho lias endeavored to do, before yen say whether ho has dono it well or not. CONE, The Installment Tailor, 115 North 11th. This counsel Is nocded even in the most literal sonso. Often tho effect of a picture depends very greatly upon its dlstanco from tho observer's oyo. Thero arc many methods of painting, from tho most minute anci to uso a general (but in accurate term) "highly finished," to tho most broadly generalized; and each method, each given canvas, ap pears at its best from Rome special distance. To walk about a gallery close to tho pictures, studying each as narrowly as possible, is to mis read, to misunderstand, tlio language in whlchjnost of them have been written. Then it should bo romembored that no kind of painting is or can be a literal and complete representation of the chosen subject, any more than a story can be afull and complete re cord of all that its characters did and said and Telt during the period that it covers. To uaint a picture or to tell a storv. one must select ann condense, omit here and accentuate there. ZT It one asks for a plainly told anec dote when a poetic suggestion is offered him, lie does injustice to the painter and ruins his own chances of enjoyment. Yet this is what that many-minded creature called "the got.eral public" constantly does in a picture gallery. It complains that! all the blades or grass in the fore ground of a land-scape are not de lined, when the painter lias cantl nothing aboutthemfor the moment because ho has wanton to suggest tho effect of a cloud-shadow on a mead ow, or a wind in the tree tops, or tho glow of a sunset sky, and knew that to mako his grass-blades conspicuous would distract tlio eyo from this, tho central thought, tlio main intention of ills picture. Or in looking at a portrait the public complains that only tho head Is "finished," that tho gown and tho hands arc hut "roughly" or "carelessly" done, when the painter has wished, ner haps, to concentrate attention upon a beautiful elTect of light Tailing upon the head, and has puprosely and very wisely subordinated the other portions ot his work. Such in stances as these might bo almost in definitely repeated. And they bring me to another point; As truly as the painter may choose what ho will paint, and dwell upon some factors in his subject more than upon others if he thinks best, so ho may choose tho kind of treatment, or handling. of painting in the technical sen.se. that he will use to express his idea. And if he expresses this idea well, then his picture is well painted and Is as "highly finished" as It ought to be. This very popular term-"highly finished" is, as I have said, an in accurate ono. It implies that eery painter ought to elaborate his can vass as carofmly as any brush couio, and every partof it in equal measure Hut, in truth, tho most full and coin pleto expression of a subject is some times given by moans of brush-work, which is very far indeed from mi nute, and. when examined close at hand, seoms very careless. Look at them for a moment not for tho sake of enjoyment but of Instruction as closely is you can. Their meaning as an Interpretation of Naturo will almost disappear. Then go to a distance and look again. You will find them more truthful, more vividly real, and therefore In the genuine sonso more skilful and careful pieces of painting than you (Continued 00 fourth pugo.) EWING'S 1115-1117 ST., LINCOLN. 2 0 PER CENT FLAT DISCOUNT SALES On Fine Tailored Clothing is the talk of the town. The greatest success ever known 20 per cent discount on Suits or Overcoats. $2.r) Suits or Overcoats now $2) 81.r Suits or Overcoats now. . . $12 820 Su.ts or Overcoats now. . . .$1 '2 "ts or Overcoats now. .$ M .,00 ,1 i . . ..,,. 810 Sui's or Overcoats now . ..$8 $18 Suite or OvrfffeoRtenow 14 4 8 8 Huli8 or Overcoats now. .$ 40 Includes Stein Mocks, L Holtz & Son, H. Knppenheimer high Hrt cloth ing. 20 per cent off on Underwear, Ha's Cats. (Moves, Mittens, Trunks and Valises. See us before making your purchases, EWING CL 0TH1NG CO., "SEE? 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