Show Student Affairs Art Exhibit The exhibition of paintings by Utah artists held in the reading room of the library just before and after the vacation was one of great interest to all who hail the time to study the pictures and especially so to the students of the Art Department The most noticeable feature of the exhibit as a whole was that all the artists both in choice and treatment of subject had evidently felt strongly the inti uence of French life and art This was but natural as all the exhibitors had received their training in Paris The subjects were almost exclusively French The old houses of Mr Richards and of Mr Leo Fairbanks the street scene of Mr Young and nearly all the landscapes of Mr Wright could be located within twenty miles of Xotre Dame the geographical center of Paris and all bear witness to the strength of the spell that France has cast on these artists The “Coasting” of Mr Young though thoroughly American in subject has an impressionistic unreal coloring Even the “Harvest Xcar Ogden” by Mr J 15 Fairbanks which one would suppose to be a typically Utah scene is treated in an essentially French manner The coloring and grouping of the trees in the background and the soft light that per- vades the whole picture are much more reminiscent of the mellow atmosphere about Ilarbizon than of the strong violent light that inundates ( )gden at harvest time This strong light or lack of atmosphere which the majority of artists cordially hate and which for the layman lover of western scenery has a charm is most apparent in Mr Wright’s pictures We have all of us seen and can still see with our "inward eye” our Utah poplars standing out vividly against the sky in the full glory of their autumn gold and it was a pleasure to each lover of Utah to find them thus faithfully represented and not shrouded in banks of opal fog or veils of amethystine haze Mr Young and Mr Wright are by far the most versatile of the group The bits of Paris and the views of the Marne River by the latter show a strong feeling for the picturesqueness of French city and country life and for the “intime” quality of the French landscape He feels a French landscape sees into it is penetrated with its poetic qualities and soft dreamy setting in short he understands it as though he had made it His portraits show a wide range of treatment from the iridescent impres- - |