Show the nude in art LONDON april 30 A wave of propriety is is passing over the paris salon despite al M bognats Bon protest the jury rejected a picture of the nude entitled by a regular contributor M K who has already sold various pictures to tho the state and to provincial museums the artistic merit of the painting was not questioned by the jury al lalere was indignant and sent the picture to the opposition salon in the champs I 1 do mars where it was accepted the bow street police court was filled with artists the other day when the case of E J cox against mr ru ku dolph blind the painter was called the subject of the case was mr blinds last picture the worlds do sire which was seen while on exhibition at no strand by mr cox and complained of by him as indecent the picture was placed where the magistrate magi strato and the witnesses could see it it represents a beautiful young woman standing undraped while she attracts to her worship the poet the warrior who is his sword and the octogenarian in the foreground a dark robed monk seeks to restrain with uplifted crucifix the unstable youth who would rush forward toward tho the nudo nude divinity mr cox said ho he was a dry goods clerk out of employment and a baptist church member moin ber ho he frequented art exhibitions but was not in his own opinion an experienced critic ile ho thought tho the picture immoral and so caused mr blinds arrest tho the magistrate said that the picture undoubtedly bo belonged longed to a high order of art and that mr blind had conceived it without any immoral intent whatever ho would therefore dismiss the complaint |