Show DALLIN ON ART last NIGHTS LECTURE ILI idt int TIM elle TWELFTH warb WARD the announcement that mr dir C CE E dallan the sculptor would lecture on art la in the twelfth ward assembly room last evening drew out a good sized audience the tile artists of the city were there in force and it was evident they were dinue much it interested in the effort of the tiie evening the lecturer was introduced trod by gershom wells president of the mutual improvement association under whose auspices the lec iee lecture ture was p given iven and thereupon proceeded at once to elucidate his subject tracing the history of art from ancient greece down to its modern status in F france rance and E england 1 I d II 11 lie lle e d dwelt llulu principally principally on sculpture but also treated 0 of painting and architecture tec ture lie ile held that the greatness of art existed before the christian era and that modern art was w a s more or less repetitive and analytical ing and statuary being chiefly representative of form while modern modem art was devoted more to features and details ile he illustrated this point by showing a reduction of Praxi tiles Iler Her mesan ancient masterpiece of which many copies had been made the one presented being a specimen of his own workman workmanship shi ile he also exhibited by means of a stereopticon eop cop a series of views of statuary and architecture projected upon a canvas occupying the proscenium the lecture was over ove r a an n hour hoar in length and was delivered for the most part extemporaneously the speaker began with notes that they hampered him soon discarded them lack of time prevented his reaching american canart art as yet in its infancy but dut it was evident he could have gone on for i hours had time permitted the tiie lecture was abstruse and technical and while ot especial interest to artists was something beyond the general appreciation the tile introduction of anecdotes a more copious interspersing interspersing af of simple illustrations together wit with items of personal experience would have made it much more intelligible and popular however at another time all this can be attended to and the lecture will then not only be valuable as it is now in a technical view but popular as well and hence more instructive generally we would like to hear mr nir dallin again at no distant day with the results of these suggestions embodied in his already excellent lecture |