Show THE ARTIST AND HIS CRITIC It Is altogether notorious that the artist ar-tist even more than most workers in Intellectual fields caves nothing about criticism or eyon suggestion from outside out-side Moredvcr there Is absolutely no person who having devoted himself to studying the world of art past and present with such success that he Is fit to wrlte about Its ancient and its modern manifestations has also the Immediate and minute knowledge fitting fit-ting him to say to this sculptor and that decorative painter that he the ar tint might have found a better or an easier way of doing what he undertook to do Such knowledge Is too great forman for-man The only crlliclsm If that be still the word which the artist cares about ai all Is thai which Is contained in the half hints and the guarded sug gestions of his brother artist who looking over his shoulder or standing In front of his abandoned drawing board says three Words of enlighten lug comment or takes up a pencil and scratches a possible combination Such criticism aa that does Indeed exist From The Field of Art In Ihe April Scribners |