Show L V ARTIST I RECONCILES OLD AND N NEW I s SeT Sees No No S v Conflict Between Been Between Ultramodern X A Academic c S Schools i i T I S 4 Ultra-modern Ultra and other schools of art represent strivings toward the san sam sams ultimate goal goal according to S A. A B. B Wright art instructor at the L L. L D D. D S S. S college who 1 illustrates this interesting 1 theory with two of his own I I paintings Two Lovers t I and Evening Ev ning on on the Weber Rier ls I IS I'S I c S 'S S SS S S. S 5 5 S 5 S 'S t S S. S 5 S 'S S l ll l S ii A S 'S 3 t 4 I Ir e t 4 r- r i S. t j S 5 jr S 4 I 4 S I Modern l Modern Painters Seeking to Break Away From Tradition A. A B. B Wright Says S S By HARRY BAGLEY There is no conflict between ul ultramodern ultramodern ultramodern ul- ul I and academic art All schools schools are world working g toward th the tle same end that end that of pt elevating ideals and standards o of art so that it achieves a higher purer plane I Ultra modernists deliberately abandon bandon academic traditions evolve new forms and new modes o of expression expression ex ex- for the solo sole purpose of shocking the world at large into the tile Idea that a picture can be e art although it resembles nothing upon the earth These ideas express briefly fly some somo of or the thoughts of ot A. A B. B Wright rig rig-ht art instructor at the I. I L. L D. D S. S college college col col- col- col lege loge who is recognized as one one- one of the outstanding artists In America To illustrate his theory that art artis artis artis is art regardless from which school schoola a picture may originate Mr Mn Wright presented two canvases on one an ultramodern bit entitled Tho The Two Lovers and nd the tile other Evening I on Weber River a painting that thatis is expressed d along old school lines FROM SAME BRUSH Both Hoth pictures have have- been widely exhibited Both have havo been given iven recognition There Is a wide dissimilarity dissimilarity dis dis- similarity between the two subjects yet they are arc from the sam samp brush Both pictures strive toward the same art Ideal the Ideal the effort to capture and imprison upon c canvas the vivid or or the tranquil peace of the emotion that dominated the artists artist's effort Modern artists are merely trying in to break breal away from traditional manners of expression Mr Wright said Their work differs little little from from an any other art in Its essentials MOdernists Modernists Modernists Mod MOd- discard accepted styles and attempt new ways of expressing the spirit oC or their compositions The strivings of ot artists have Ilave ever eer been toward a form of ot pure art and I artists have haye always striven to make every element of their work organic There are rudiments governing art accepted b by all treat great artists ReUbens Reubens Reubens Reu Reu- bens and accepted fundamentals and achieved a a. harmony harmony har bar mony knowledge o of structure and anda a a. sense of rhythm that invests their pictures with a completeness that lesser artists artists- fail to achieve Modern art in the opinion of ot Mr 1 Wright should be a D. sour source e of or as assistance assistance assistance as- as to lesser artists whose ef efforts efforts efforts ef- ef forts lack art art structure for modern modern mod mod- ern cnn art ant whatever the opinion of la laymen nen is constantly evolving new structural f forms Illustrating the difference in n perception between artist and layman Mr 11 Wright calls cans attention attention at at- to the fact that artists artists artists art art- consider balance depth and technique as outstanding qualities to th the subordination of subject matter matter matter mat mat- ter while laymen are more Interested interested interested Inter inter- ested in the subject It Is to overcome overcome overcome over over- come this tendency upon the tile part of the public to seek In p paintings a alikeness alikeness likeness eness of something they have seen seen that causes modern artists to purposely paint abstract beauties that resemble nothing in nature The modern attitude is that beauty is sufficient unto itself itsel and Is not dependent upon its resemblance to anything Artists would have laymen appreciate appreciate elate the tho arabesque of pattern ill In a painting the balance of or masses of light and dark and the harmony harmon and rhythm of ot line and action that all aU good pictures have haye And an artist Mr 11 Wright contends contends con con- tends does docs only only half half the work even when his painting is finished Completion Com Corn of the tile other half rests with th the person who views views' the pain painting tin an and I In the manner in which he cr creates creates cre cre- ates ate the tho illusion that the picture suggests |