Show ONLY REAL LIFE UFE WORTH PAINTING George Bellowes Has Litile Lingle e Regard for Better BeUer Nature A. A Artists l fists rip nr Set Chicago Jan 3 Art Art critics critiC's professional and antl otherwise brought broush t a 0 stow now cr er of or condemnation on their heads when they criticised tho the pictures of oC George Georgo B at t an nn exhibit In theArt tho the Art Institute here herc Is 13 a painter paint paint- er of or tho things that are arc Art critics said arc aro a stupid lot lotho who rho dont don't know what the they are aro talking about In New York m my home 1 r know several te One is a t. t cad another IB Is n. n t. t pompous former Cormer minister A third Ja Is tho the meanest man I ever er saw and tho the fourth although a a. good follow I Is Innocuous Speaking about art Itself Jar Mr rr Bellowes Bel- Bel 10 lowes said Artists rUsts who try to paint better than nature are Tho The average e artist nit art 1st Is a painter of his own on limitations Pretty pictures decorative o effects effects- I I bah There arc are perhaps a dozen good tood canvasses In iii tho the whole exhibit at tho the Institute The rest are are- Innocuous silly and stupid Lifo Life Is the tho only thing worth painting paint paint- In ing raw ing-raw raw red teething seething life lire Tragedy Is beautiful even thou though h It may bo be brutal The Th successful sul robber Is a good artist such artIst such Intensity of or reeling strain strain- In lag emotions Ho Hi lives and expresses himself like an artist Art is not concerned with moral loral ity Hy People viewing Icv beautiful things think beautiful thoughts and are aro themselves made beautifuL That's That tho the way It goes with an mounting ever se- se se SC quence There arc nrc two kinds of ot artists One paints and paints In an effort to create ire tre e greatest picture the world has ever seen They generally go o mad Tb The Theother other kind like Franz Hals HaIs laughs like a sod god as he works and works when hen he chosen I try to be like the tha latter kindA kind A 1 picture la is finished only when the artist can think of or no DO moro more to do tai Til rl It Imagination Is everything but ware of or sentiment There Is a a. tendency In American toward profound truths But you roes dO doe find It at the e exhibits The mea inca w are doing the tho real work ork are bud known at all |