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Show Art Talks f BY GORDON (!OrE ""To" write" or' talk ' in ' generalities generali-ties is more often than not, done with a result impregnated with vagueries. This, however, seems to be a necessary evil in dwelling casually on such a large subject as art. Would that it were possible to touch upon the specific byway of discussion on individual lives and works, tut space less limited limit-ed than available here is needed to develop such matter. The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker, etc., that lives by the sweat of his brow in the everlasting struggle to feed himself him-self and his dependents, providing provid-ing the wherewithal to maintain the institution called home and attempting to endow his life with the happy social conditions that make of him a good citizen, is a forlorn and incomplete individual individ-ual if his interests are confined to the survival problem alone. There is escape from the struggle strug-gle in entertainment for those who seek diversion and forget-fulness forget-fulness in the lull of labor. That entertainment is provided by people peo-ple who do the thinking for us, and give us, as it were, the satisfaction of amusement served directly to us. Fortunately, there are many whose curiosities are awakened to the point where life is not complete without an attempt to go beyond the daily round of existing. This curiosity of mind and spirit leads them to study and thought, to realms of mind gained only through personal initiative. A pedagogue made the statement that a teacher was but a tool and could accomplish nothing noth-ing of himself in the passing on of knowledge, simply because there were three types of students, stu-dents, to-wit: the first, too stupid to learn; the second, not interested in other than the compiling com-piling of necessary fact in order to successfully make his grade, and thirdly, the type that learns by himself and heaven and high water cannot hold him from satisfying sat-isfying his mental curiosity. Paintings are stimuli only to those who are curious about what man can record in pigment, intriguing in-triguing only to those interested in the development of man as expressed, mind to eye. The road to awakening is mostly most-ly one of contact. How learn to swim without approaching water; how learn to love the mountain with the eyes glued to the ground ? Pictures are certainly available. avail-able. Let's go to the gallery. |