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Show HOLDS MODERN ART WANTS 1 BEAUTY C R Nevmson, Futurist Painter, Says War Will Strengthen His Cult VITALITY NECESSARY Declares Artists Should Go to the Front to Secure Inspiration Special Cable to The Tribune LOXDON April to Some time before he outbreak of tie var C R. Isevlnson tl a futurist painter and chief Brit sb d sc p e of tire Ita Ian poet and propa ga diet MarlnettI pa nted a pi cure which bore the characteristic tile Speed No se Smell When war broke out Mr Nevinson seized his opportunl y to fo low the promp Ings both of hie patriotism and of h s cu os j concerning new emotional experience 11a wen ou n c a ge of a motor am bulan e v. be etee ed through many a dange n or Im nedla a behind the f ring ine He found more speed olse smell than Is hea th could s and To f nd poetic np ration in such scenes of horror needs the iron nerve ot a Ma ine tl bl Nevinaon b futur at sens b litv was not trained in the same school. Hie nerves gave way his healtu broke do vn and he had to return He says Here our ways part. Lnllke my Ital an futurist fr ends I do not g ory n war fo Is own aake nor can I accep elr doctrine that war is le on healthglver This war will be a lo ent incentive o futurism for we believe there is no beauty except In strife no mae terplece without aggressiveness In my own pictures I have tr ed to express he emot on produced by the apparent ug iness and dullness oi modern warfare Our futurist tech nlque is tbe only poaslb e med um to express the crudenees of violence and bruta ity of the emotions seen and felt on the present ba ef elds of Europe. A 1 artists should go to the front to strengthen their art b a wo sh p or phys cal and moral courage and a fearless desire of adventure risk and daring and free themselves from the canker of professors archaeologists, clcerones antiquaries and beauty worshipers. Modern art needs hot beauty or rs-stra rs-stra nl but ltal ty The public cannot can-not rea lze too soon that the modern artist is not the puny and efflminate long ha red creature of the eight es The sooner the expo atlon of od masters and the wa6 Ing of several thousands, or e en millions, of pounas ceasef t e greater w II be the oppor tun for an artist today to gain a livelihood A masterpiece must d s appear with its autho immortal ty In art is a d sgrace which has bui t a prison of timidity of Imitation, and of plagiarism |