Show OF HOT AIR the instantaneous photograph bids fair to become a very potent aid to artists who seek to teach their pupils that reproduction is not art for for it is clearly demonstrated by this means that the real is in nowise like the apparent says a writer in the washington post for example an instantaneous photograph of a man in the act or of running never looks as much like a man in the act of running as the pen drawing of a artist does the reason is that the photograph reproduces the one exact position of the runner at the instant the picture is made while the artist pictures several severd positions in one and makes his man seem to be moving art alway has dealt and aad always must deal with things not as they are but as they seem to be we sit and look at a runner he seems simultaneously to bend forward his body throw one leg away forward and the other far to the rear with both knees at almost an acute angle at the same instant he seems to fo swing owing one arm forward while the other is drawn back both being shut tightly at taci elbows so it seems for the eye of the observer is not keen enough to see the position of each i instant n separately it sees the poal positions bious of a group of instants and the observer thinks that these positions are simultaneous the instantaneous photograph shows they are not simultaneous and in doing this presents a picture that does not look like a man in the act of running I 1 his photograph is going to be indeed already is a great aid to science but the only thing it can do for art will be to prove that reality does not antt seem as true as the ideal what is true of the painters and the sculptors art is true also of the writers terIs he who describes things as they really are may be a scientist but only he be who describes things as they seem to be is an artist we frequently hear readers say of characters created by an artistic writer that they have seen just such persons they think they have bave 1 but they it is the writers art that makes them think they have if he had actually described the persons they have in mind they would say there were never such beings on earth thus it comes about that truth reality is 18 stranger because less lees commonly observed than fiction and that fiction althe the ideal hath a nobler end than fact |