Show STUDENT LIFE '2a tering the grain he has shown ns the dignity and grandeur of the man who earns his daily bread by the sweat of his brow and who in his humble sphere is no less a hero than the man who moves at the head of an army or leads a charge of cavalry over that same field He looks gigantic in his proportions: a man of sinew heart and brain a type summing up within himself many generations of toilers It is one of the great Pictorial Epic Poems This is Millet’s Conception and what he is striving to tell you with his colors form and shadows: this is what you feel and the impression you receive This by the way is the real value of the picture and not the fact that it sold for so many thousand dollars It is this universal human interest which all great art possesses to which a great artist referred when he made the remark “Because people pay so many hundred dollars for a picture they think they own it” There is in Rome a statue of Moses by Michael Angelo As a piece of mechanical art it is not considered very wonderful Probably as a carver and polisher there are a number of modern sculptors who can equal If not excel Michael Angelo But there is something in the figure that is wortli all the marble these men ever cut It is the conception of tremtndous power the conceived ability of Moses to over- awe crush and destroy all things before him A man who was well able to rise up and lead a people through the wilderness Again in his Sibyls and mighty Prophets of the Sistine Chapel this same power is apparent combined with solemnity mystery wierdness and even the spirit of the prophecy which characterized the originals The conceptions are lofty to sublimity and the forms are perfectly worthy of the ideas they embody for Michael Angelo’s line is perfectly related to his subjects but they are not so great as the latter As far as accuracy goes (Jerome could Delacroix could have drawn them as well have given them a more harmonious color scheme Alfred Stevens or Sargent could have painted their garments much better but all combined could not have created the mystery and power This ceiling is probably t lie most sad-brow- ed sublime piece of painting ever executed and while it may not possess quite the breadth of Shakespeare it has all of the power and strength There is a painting by Rubens’ of the Dead Christ hanging on the Cross alone in the night with drooped head and (lowing hair and in the background over the distant Jerusalem hangs a black sky The color is of no great consequence Yet color was a great feature of Rubens’ art The drawing is good but nothing extra and many of his works would surpass it in technical qualities: but the idea rushes iqon one the blinding horror of the scene the blackness the awfjdnessof the deed: the full significance of it all IIow the mind of Rubens ever soared high enough to grasp that conception bailies comprehension for the idea seems great even above Rubens’ greatness In all the greatest art one does not see the paint line or texture The conception absorbs everything else and this is ihe most enduring part The highest aim of art then is the embodiment in form orcolor and their variations of an idea impression or emotion regarding something conceived seen or felt by the artist —II J S The Morning After (We are extreme!’ sorry but the author of this article absolutely refuses to allow his name to become known — Ei) I am glad that you are all back to Logan again without any broken limbs but we are all sorry that you didn’t bring back a broken record If my speech lias a sorrowful tone I trust therefore you will consider the circum- stances For want of a better subject I will say a few words on the weather The weather is a safe subject Neither is it very deep For these reasons as well as others I shall try to confine myself to the weather We are all interested in the weather more so than we think we are Our happiness pur lives often depend upon the weather We |