Show NOTED ILLUSTRATOR GIVES LECTURE HERE IN DEFENSE OF TRUE ART Proving himself a wit as well as illustrator il II- and painter of distinction I Rockwell Rock K Kent nt made handsome amends to his Salt Lake audience assembled in force at Kingsbury han hall Thursday night to hear his lecture In Defense of True Art for tor their disappointment of Monday night The intimate and informal talk with which Mr Kent entertained his hearers was vas wasso wasso so 0 delightfully interesting as to placate the most carping B Besides ide Mr Kent announced his intention of ot sending as a gift gUt to the state art collection one of his paintings in the way of further amends for the fiasco of his Monday Mr Kent had a fling g at the critics who have so go much Jo o 0 say about art artand artand and its Us good and bad qualities and andI I S said he was gratified that at last wf an artist was allowed to speak for his own profession He had thought an j appropriate title for or his talk might be The liThe Worm Turns Jurns but believed it was It-was was well that someone had altered it True art however he said is not a term to be used It is either S art or it isn't art Real art is its own justification and need not be defend t ed It is one way human beings have of expressing themselves and perhaps perhaps per per- haps Imps the tho simplest form Ionn since inca it t is in There is no such thing as French art or Italian art or even American art The language is h universal uni uni- versal veral it needs no dictionary Beg Beginning his hb discussion neatly i with a a story of Eve who became the C first artist when desiring to tell Adam AdamI 14 I about tho the apple and having no IanI Ian Ian- I guage drew the picture of the apple I I Mr Kent went on to show that sine SInce ln e I Adams Adam's time art has ha developed The Th world has lias become more complex am and 1 we have discovered new values Art Aft I has had to change chang and find new values f- f falso also and a It now language for r its exI ex cx- S I Fundamentally t tie the e artists artist purpose e is Li to give expression to what wha whai S i he has learned of the of life Mr Kent devoted a part of at his le lec S ture turc to an explanation of the processes of executing wood engravings drawings draw craw l. l ings and lithographs illustrating his hi I. I talk by screen creen reproductions of his own works yorks and also t. t thing of the bre breadth of his lila travels by 1 I pictures picture ranging from rom Greenland to t New Nei Hampshire Iran tolD F. F Francs Q to toe 1 I e I. I 5 |