Show got too much realism artists often have to do queer things to get realistic effects re bently a painter who has made some thing of a reputation with his pictures of animals wished to paint a dog tug ging at a rope straining at every muscle to get away he thought in this way to make a vivid reproduction of muscular tension iut it was not easy to get his model finally he hit upon the plan of starving bis own dog until the animal had a keen appetite ind then tying him in the studio just out of reach of a chicken tied with a cord around one leg the painting progressed all right for a time the chicken dian didn t like her proximity to the dog tugging at his rope but after a few hours grew used to it and stopped making a tuss but the bulldog kept right at work tugging at his rope and finally it aavo ft ay with a joyful snap the chicken in the agony of the first astaci broke its own cord and then there was a belter flopping and scrambling in which easels were loverti arned and canvases paint brushes and pi lettes knockel about this kept up for five until the chicken was kallel the dog hadt emcken tor dinner that night 1 ut the artist uses chains now instead of cords to tie up his animals new york sun |