Show I I MODERN ART I Au Interesting Lecture By Mrs Hah I herly Last Evening i I Mrs Habberly last evening gave the first of a series of lectures on Modern Art before the Womans club Art said the lady is classed in many series but in the most extended i I I and most popular sense of the word it means everything which we distinguish I dis-tinguish from nature Decorative art is the product of the hands together with artificial action I I It is taste and most everything can ba so arranged as to become artistic I Every employment can be turned into j art and when they reach that climax j are truly valuable But it is not everyman J 1 every-man or woman that can be artists j Decorations can under the hands of i j artists be made of almost every fabric and represent every object or action I and the decoration of any kind is art i in the proper sense of the word Beauty I Is seen in everything from the eye of an artist The poet is an artist as also is the musician The broad fields in summer time team with beauty and music the sounds of mighty thunder the swelling of the sea fill true artists souls with awe and reverence to the creator of all things All history shows to us that the industrial in-dustrial arts of a nation dominate over the decorative and secluded arts America has never in its history reached so grand an epoch in art as I it has reached today We nave schools of art In all the principal cities east of the Missouri and a great many of value I val-ue west of that line True America has never established an original school and perhaps she never will but our schools are not decreasing on that account ac-count There must be originality in art as well as in literature and music a true artist scorns the idea of copying I the ideas of others The Centennial exposition was the turning point of art and started it I fairly in the direction that England had taken in 1851 I The Romans imported Greek artists and Germany and France imported the I French and Italians but at the present I pres-ent day each of these nations stand represented by its own distinctive j i school Lately Spain has taken a greater interest II in-terest in that line and Russia has established Of Japan everyone tablished a school I but truly is aware of the peculiar I that thrives I great decorative genius artistic I nation is more there Pbably no Out of every nations tistic than Japan odei n decorative art we can se ideas I that rightfullY belong to the Japanese The art of stained glass is an original orig-inal American art John Lafarge and Louis Tiffany have done much for America in this particular line as also Tlllinghast of New has Miss Mary Tillinghast is in the estimation York Miss i mation of many one of the most remarkable All markable of American women who have had the good fortune to visit Grace church New York and see the famous Jacobs Dream executed by j that lady can express the truth of her greatness Decorative tiles is a branch recently begun but nevertheless an art which will live long among nations The Centennial Cen-tennial exposition set in motion the interior or decorative arts and the j tile was the direct result of decorative I painting which caused many artists ito i-to lay aside the palette and decorate the interiors of homes Woodcarving is an art of ancient I origin which is fast becoming obsolete obso-lete because at the presenttirnerna j chinery has taKen its pmce ann < i I work of hand woodcarving Is more beautiful only because of the labor expended I ex-pended upon it In this line Cincinnati has taken the I lead of all cities in America j The art of pottery is one of long growth and one destined to continue The pottery workers of the old world must be wary for already America can imitate the Dresden to such a nicety I I that only experts can distinguish the I one from the other Of the other arts there is the ornamental I orna-mental metal art which has been ushered ush-ered in with the present century i In America we have many artists of worldwide lenown many workers in black and white and many caricatui I ists well known and certainly the last I decade of American art has proved far greater than all others Art is fast becoming recognized for art is the embodiment of all intellect I Mrs Habberly will deliver the second of her lectures on Early American I Art and Artists before the Womans I club on Friday next at 10 a m I |