Show ABOUT ART I Colonel Fairmans Lecture at Hammond Hall The Boys Clnb Ball Entertainments Jdeet Inci and Other Gatherings For Social or Political Purposes I I One of the most intensely interesting lectures of the season was given last night at Hammond Hall by CoL James Fairman the well known landscape and marine painter who has been sojourning in Salt Lake during the past week The lecturer gave an analysis of the scope of expression in the different arts assuming the following order of excel lence Music poetry painting sculpture and architecture rating histrionic urt as a mingling of poetry in text sculpture In pose and mnsio in intellection He declared de-clared the art of earth to be a mere prophecy proph-ecy and suggestion of what man would be in a future state and claimed that the fine arts in their ministry are In reality a universal language and that sentiment is the dominant quality in true art The sculpture of the Greeks was never dramatic ts they avoided giving expression ex-pression and with the study of tho drama and anatomy our modern sculptors should excolL This branch takes its highest form in the monumental but George Washing ton on a dray horse with arm uncomforta bly extended is not to be taken as a model While in painting light and shade necessi tate color all attempts to color works of the sculptor have failed The ancient artists ar-tists had no colors and our modern chem ists have done much for painting This branch of the arts differs from the others in that all is given at a stroke and but a i moment of time is represented and in this element a picture is necessarily shorter than a poem or a novel but even poetr takes refuge in human tigures In considering music the sneaker main tained that it operates airectly on the emo tions and is not limited by intellectual notion It is the highest form of art and there are conceptions which can never be placed on the staff This is the one art which we ro assured will survive this state of existence The stage the platform and the drama wore all reviewed and the conventionalities conventionali-ties of tho modern theater as representing art were repudiated The strong doses to which the public was subjected were apt to produce a morbid effat Of modern literature the colonel though that the French school had proven a dire calamity and a veritable disease to the emotions Wo do not want shadow for shadows sake but for tho sake of light The great art of the student nowadays Is 1 to know what not to read Even Thomas Moore wished that his own daughter might not read his poems A great musician can play a picture and 1 great painter can paint a song The real pools painters and actors as well as novelists were briefly considered and their excellence and defects pointed tnt A most pleasant and instructive feature of the evening was the question box out which much valuable information as to the great modern artists writers and actors act-ors was drawn Salvini and Geneviv Ward were pronounced the greatest of living actors and striking comparisons were drawn between Booth and Fechter the one being of the naturalistic and the other of the artificial school The great want of the stage is the romantic drama real human life exalted enough to lift us to a higher plane Wniio wo look at all art as perishable the time will come when the groat artist will take it up and in heaven it will be awakened to new beauties which the human hu-man eye cannot see or our limited senses comprehend The address was listened to with marked attention for the speaker used only clear AngloSaxon and his manner was most en tertaining The study of art has told upon him for he shows its improving and elevat ing effect in action and thought as well Colonel Fairman is of Scotch origin and came to this country in his infancy With the usual struggles of a olobian he worked his way to scholarship and professional profes-sional eminence and In the late war was commander of the Ninetysixth New York Volunteers He was appointed a lecturer of fine art and social science at Olivet college and has been active in moral reforms Many years of his life have been spent abroad and be looks on the up grade though sixtyseven years havo crossed his path This is his first trip to the west and hes studying this recion with an artists eye He has with him twelve paintings now on exhibition at Diuwoodeys large rooms including the following subjects Jerusa lem Melrose Abbey Shakespeare Cliff Sunset at Corsica A Wet Sheet and Flow ing Sea Edens Isle Loch Catrine Twi light on the Hudson Autumnal Roles of New England Plains of Sharon Cliffs of Etratut and the Storm off tile Pier at Dover These may be seen during the next succeeding suc-ceeding week |