Show ART AND ARTISTS I LOCAL AXD OUTSIDE MATTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST I A Spirited Reply By Tilr Evans to the Art Editors Mountain Ideas Ceoierrl Notes I An exhibition of paintings by M Monet is open for a few days in New York They shoW more plainly now than they did a few years ago what amount of influence they should justly have had on the art of the world The most exaggerated eulogiums were once bestowed upon them but now only a few of these pictures excite more than a passing remark This Is partly due to the fact however that so many others have adopted the principles of painting that he was the first to reveal re-veal Raphaels Holy Family brought the highest price that was ever paid for a picture 350000 Meissonlers painting of 1814 was much smaller but has been sold at the rate of 290 per square inch or 170000 Other high prices that have been paid are 110000 to BurneJones for his Legend of the Briar Rose Millets Angelus was sold for 150000 though he only got 360 for it Gainsboroughs Duchess of Devonshire brought 52000 and Du bufes Prodigal Son 100000 llun kacsys enormous picture of Christ Before Pilate fetched 100000 but he had previously cleared nearly that much by exhibiting it Lehi Jan 31 1895 Mr Art Editor Your able article in Sundays Herald of January 20 commenting upon my communication shows a very clever pen but upon analyzing it I find that the impression has been forced by a play of dazzling words and flowery sentences some of which I cannot pass without offering a few remarks You I say that mountains can and do afford af-ford material for an endless variety of beautiful and pleasing pictures in which a very large majority of people of good taste find pleasure I cannot imagine what you base this statement upon It may be upon the number manufactured It surely canot be upon the number sold You should remember remem-ber that an art which is only pretty or amusing is of a dangerous kind It is not elevating or refining though it may serve as a harmless diversion I from daily toil In referring to > that vermilllon portrait por-trait at the Worlds Fair by Bonnat which had the carrying powers of a Krupp gun you have gained for me here what I could not possibly have done for myself and with such force that it must carry conviction wherever it is read Great art may have no subject sub-ject but very rarely an obtrusive one so we find a difficulty at once In trying to paint our mountainsand it is only too true ithat they force themselves upon us The colors that you speak of may be there but the atmospheric effects ef-fects In blue and purple are oh so rare that one woud have a hard task indeed to penetrate the grays in search of them Mr Editor says we are all poets on the mountain tops p Yes and I say we would all be poets on top of the Eiffel tower with such beautiful such enchanting valleys spread before us Not oecausg of the rugged rocks the thundering iioises of the cataracts and the awful precipices which fill one with horror as one gazes upon them below terrifying enough I think to knock all the poetry from people who sell soap and sugar on Slain street or advertise pants at 450 There is a quiet spirit in these woods i That dwells whereer the south wind I blows I Where underneath the whitethorn in the glade I The wild flowers bloom or kiss the soft air I The leaves above their sunny palms out I I spread That spirit moves In i the green valley where the silvery 1 brook i I p From its full layer pours the white cas 1 cade I And bubbling low amid the tangled woods Slips down through mossgrown stones with endless laughter Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I In support of your argument you say if mountains are grand they must be I cIt c-It wduld be just as amsisttent to say that all poetry is grand llnere is a dlfferanee between mat is poetic arc Hhe literary and pictorial sense whidh may foe discussed liareaf ter showing also 1 the difficulties tfhat patnitsrs encounter to UhtJr attempts to patot mountains while such difficulties may be readily overcoma by writers I am not at all surprised tWat you have gone to the wortf pdet for support Forbad For-bad you looked to paInters for light I greasily fear you wouvil have found darkness in lilt 1 2 place teraof I Not but that Unere are pltenty of mountain pictures for refeivnee for I they > have been painted at from Raph aiels day down but we do not gia to ithsuni fur poetic feaslts although I am here reminded that Mr Morans picture pic-ture of > the Yellowstone has stfirral aBut smil j I But what ihJas b2Come of Uhese mioun tein paintings We see or hear not of them today Tibia answer confess back tiihab aoiusts Bilive all gone astray in search of some fog trse In a mirsh At tine Worlds far nat even Norway came forth witih her 1ovely scenery I Wihats the matter Why sir they have sought other fields H > me may be found hoeing eaiboage and turnips in this garden whIle others parchano may I have gone oj fishing No Artists have come to understand I that In trying to depict tttie true character char-acter bigness of tte mountains that they have derfcakena < difficulty Which pigment is manifestly incapajble of doing do-ing And here comes in very fittingly the1 remarks of Ulr Hamcrton oa that I great poet Tennyson He says of him there is not the slightest straining after af-ter I are irnattalnat fide3tnes in any of his descriptions They go no farther han > Mia art allows and they ara always al-ways exquisite as far as they s > > 1bd is tbs highest praise that can be do orb to any artist because it implies his cdn ception the boundaries of his art and his mastery over aSl that TL5 w1t3T t1IJoS bJllndarl liR If the eagte is nobler than the TOt = dow lark so the majesfcic lion of lUbe jun ls is noibrpr tihan the olMpmurtk OK tine thousand hills But Wham of itt Let us confine ourselves more rtosely to the subject We have for our noun talfts a native prttle They have been good to Uit for they have furntehed us With fuel for winter and kept our fields from parching in tltoe summer So wo naturally tike to tttieir pictures as ones dbes to his own portrait But because of this sSibuW the Ifctle blade of grass along tine quiet running Jbrook or this tny lititCe flower of tfbemeacfrow bow thair head in submission to this bolil obtruder For Its inagnfficence hall be diminished dimin-ished and its faflty tops of which you have so muCh boasted s bali be ttmbl ¼ ito i-to the dust Their rocks cliffs and I prdeipices Shall all be swept away While thus baautilful lifctte ftow r dainty and modest shall Tot be lost It is apart a-part of creation It is poetry ATK f w < hMe the mauntaJns shoiE crumble ami truce their p ace in tOss earth as originally origin-ally uteiguefd the libtle flower Will still put forth its tovefly face and Kva uts be eli joy to the artist forever E EVANS Our friend Alfred Lamlrourne the famed Utah artist anti author received on Friday a handsome volume of 500 puges containing the genealogy of > Svft LamSbournc family back to SIT Robert de Xombouime 1199 There are several branches of the family spelling the name with slight vaifeitions Poof Po-of a large number of distinguished and women of the family are gh including an excellent likeness Fred as he is familiarly called by his many friends It is a most complete com-plete and comprehensive work and ia highly esteemed by Mr Lamboume wihto does not know wan sent It to him nor now his portrait was obtained unless it was had from The Herald which published one some time ago of which this is a copy There are some worldfamed artfets in tine family connections con-nections among whom are Howard Fyle the celebrated American painter and Albert des Pittieres Lambron tji noted French artist Fred is or lighted with the book ond well he maybe may-be 1 The vexed question of TVhJo Ss tci paint Mayor Baskins potrait Jiay been setiteH at last and the commission has Wacn awarded to llr J W CLawson for a full feng > Ki painting Just what priea Is to be plaid has not 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