Show THE MONOTYPE CRAZE it Is lice online popular anti anil Tin to develop dei flop into it wild fad n an effective departure in art is th new monotype that is beginning to fill find its way to america from paris where i 1 has haa enjoyed for sonic some months a popularity the pl icess was discovered by hubert herkimer the artistic folk of paris were quick to see its possibilities find and tho the fume fame thereof hew flow like ime wildfire throughout the inflammable painters quarters monotype parties have been ono one of the latest fails fads of these appreciative precia tive people artists infected with tho the craze find and their curious friends friend gathor gather in ili sonic some accessible studio in ardent groups to turn out these tho the excitement lies in III tile fact that no ono one can call foresee quite how they will turn out the pleasure not in fit the ovelty novelty though that of course on tributes to it but mostly in fix the potent truth that in fit no other way can call tile tho same effects of oe light and shade bo obtained to produce the monotype the artist paints ills his study upon a 1 I zinc plate which Is put through a press As the name InI implies pIles only one impression is produced choso that are done dona in ili one color are the most successful as yet though sonic some of tile the two color attempts are very charming the subtlety of certain delicate effects as for instance sunlight on oil water is rendered by this new phase of art in a truly marvelous manner although tile the cordiality of paris may not be expected perhaps in america for the monotype there can call be no doubt that they will be warmly received here when they ire are once at homo home in our art exhibits and when too tile tho public has learned to understand der stand them thein sufficiently to appreciate the fact that a favorite study produced in this way will not bo be found duplicated in a neighbors drawing room this is now tile tho fear of the careless art patron who seems to have some hazy idea of etchings in his mind the practical wife of an artist who has lately returned from parts with the monotype fever raging in ili ills his blood complains ruefully why my husband I 1 took the cloth clothes es arl wringer tiger away from the maids for a press to produce those pictures she smiled smile with a comans womans vo mans superiority as she added ile he said they could haye lave it back again it would take at least three hours to remove that oily pal paint nt with turpentine every time t they hey used it with a sigh 1 I have bought a new wringer so there is a sordid side to even such gems of art as ills his wife displays with a pride that must soften it if it does not efface tho the domestic inconvenience ven veni lence ence the esthetic side is venetian scenes in brown an ail old stone bridge in gray mountain peaks and a seascape in blue and a cluster of 0 picturesque willows in ili green who could mind the loss of oc ono one wringer after feasting the eyes on such exquisite shading particularly it it her wringer |