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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.)
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