Show madam but the form and features that beauty is objective don’t you wish you could?” If truth alone Another set will tell you that it exists in the were the object of the arts Gerome would be bought only that beauty is subjective If we see that greater than Raphael or Michael Angelo and view the matter in a broad way we bePope greater than Shakespeare or M ilton This neither is exclusively right Beauty may is not an argument against the painter’s or long to both the objective and the subjective poet’s veracity but to discriminate between an worlds It ought not to be hard for any one particuaccessory and a principle Then we hear certainly the plain brutal larly any one living in this part of the country truth is not wanted it is too realistic the to believe that there is a beauty about sunsets painter must strive for the ideal Rut how mountains valleys and animals independent many know what they mean when they use of man or his thoughts If you claim that is an attribute of a flower why is beauty the word? People talk of the ideal of Phidias or Raphael and when they make a practical not an attribute of higher creations? Our perception or lack of perception has nothing to do application of it in modern painting they usuor ally mean a cliaracterless insipid face or figure with its existence The African Hottentot imitated from the artist’s recollections of the Australian Bushman may see no beauty in Greek sculpture or a figure or object formed by the forest but that does not signify there is many fancies Such work is quite worthless none Because a man just begins to realize and except for purely decorative purposes has that there is very great beauty in his natural no good reason for existence There are others surroundings does not mean that beauty did who think they recognize the ideal in another not exist in those same surroundings ages beIf a great landscapist like Daubigny fore him Whether seen or unseen it is there way is paints a landscape with a certain haziness c f and that beauty which is seen bj all usuallj’ e kind often portrayed in atmosphere and line they call him an idealist of a common-placand when Rousseau paints the same landpainting It is the object of one kind of art to picture this natural beauty and w hen accomscape without the haziness they call him a realist PK)ple will continue to write and talk in panied by some individuality enthusiasm feela vague way about ideals and fancy they feel ing or method in the artist it is not an unthem Perhaps they do When they refer to worthy aim Much oftener however it appears the painter’s ideal they usually mean his idea without these latter qualities and sinks to a which is an individual conception It is that level of expressionless deccrative art It is most personal meaning which they should look for frequently portrayed in the human figure in a picture and strive to find out what he is Every exhibition has its portion of these ideal heads and figures which if anasaying They should try to put themselves in his place and try to see as he sees In other lyzed usually prove to be only modified likestudio models The same words they should look for the idea which they nesses of pretty-face- d may readily discover with practice rather than model poses under all sorts of titles upon many the ideal which they may never recognize For compositions but she rarely has anything to commend herself but her face They are pleasthe ideal is more in the head of the metaphysiant enough in their way especially to the masscian than of the modem artist We hear of the beautiful in art and may es and it is to these pretty pink propositions wonder what part it plays in painting and that some painters are indebted for their popjust where it comes in Iieauty may be an at- ularity Natural beauty is again represented by the tribute of things tangible or intangible It scenes in common-plac- e may attach itself to the form and features of productions of the a head and it may also be an attribute of landscape with which we are all familiar studio model thought emanating from the head One set They correspond to the pretty to of metaphysicians will declare that it exists in and are chosen and painted as they happen lie calmly replied “Possibly not lov-line- ss ' so-call- -- ed |