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Show tssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss EDITORIAL: THIS YEAR'S EXHIBIT AMONG BEST Another annual National Art Show is about to become history with the closing of the 1951 exhibit scheduled Monday, April 30. This year's exhibition with, a total of 244 paintings and nine pieces of fine sculpture work, will hold its place among the finest art displays in the country. While there seemed to be fewer national exhibitors exhib-itors this year than in some years previous, the quality qual-ity of most of the pictures holds the same high stan-. stan-. dard and it will be a problem this year as in the past, to select the painting which will be representative of the exhibit; one which the city and the school will be proud of and one which they can afford. Concerning that which the school can afford reminds re-minds us of the comment heard by one of the students recently. She said, "We raise the money for the art, but we never get the credit." This may have been an original statement by the student or she may have had the subject suggested at home. At any rate few realize the extra work which does go into the art show but it is by no means all done by students. Those students who feel they are doing all the work for the art, little realize what the art is doing for them and the effect it will have on their lives. The benefits which they derive will perhaps prove many times more valuable and will be remembered longer than any work which they have done. It will mean a lot to these students as has been proven in the past, to come back to the school several years after graduation, gradu-ation, and find they recognize the work of some artist. art-ist. It will be like meeting fine old friends. The art theme which the students are asked to write each year on their favorite picture, is one of the best things which could happen to them. It is one way of getting them to visit the gallery often, which is for their own special benefit. It is an incentive for them to look over the pictures and learn what they like and why. Perhaps a similar method might be tried out with the adults of Springville to get them to see that which people are talking about throughout the state and which hundreds travel many miles to view. It is really a generous gesture on the part of the high school faculty, the art committee, and the art board and all others concerned in sponsoring the annual an-nual art exhibit, to go to the wTork and trouble involved in-volved in getting paintings here and back again so that townspeople and others far and wide, might look at them. So if we hear anyone criticizing the art exhibit or any phase of it, it should be our responsibility to remind re-mind them of the benefits derived from it as individuals, individ-uals, of the publicity it brings to this city and the pleasure it affords visitors who travel many miles to see the work of the well known exhibiting artists. . Many larger cities would be proud to own an art collection the size and value of that in Springville and we should do everything in our power to keep it large and valuable and not commonplace. Even if it in- volves some extra work, surely it has an aesthetic value which compensates all efforts. Members of the high school faculty, students as a whole and the city realize the value of the project. By no others means could it have been carried on to become the greatest collection of art in any high school in the United States. |