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Show WAR SHORN OF ITS 6UM0R Modern Painters, Who Themselves Have Looked on Death, Depict Slaughter as It Really Is. Kor the first time In hlstorj war If painted ns It K Tim xarnlsh. the Klory has been taken off. It stand out In nil Ipi siHltlen horror. Tlif npcnliij; of the Salon lies Artiste-Kranenls, Artiste-Kranenls, fllled for the most part with raiixases of men who hnxe Ihhii In Ibe trenches, show nn nstonlshlni; absence ab-sence of battle scenes. Most of Hie painters have soiiKht Inspiration In-spiration elsewhere. Those who haxe found It In the war bine rendered only the dult mUery of life at Ibe front, x They shoxv no rlnsb of armies, these painters who huxe betn tbrotiKh Hie xxar, no flourish of truuiH-ls, not fcn fragments of cenenil iIrIiIs. Ilul war ns It Is. A while r, llmplnp toxxnrd the lines, cxhnusted, deip-ilrln;, hnbb liiK up to bis mouth a hamlkenhlef dark as a clot of blood Is what one Me. lbe fnce Is illxtorted with suf-ferine, suf-ferine, and (lie uniform Is of that In-ilesi In-ilesi rlbable inlor xxblih tomes onl from (ontlnunl expo-ure to the elements. ele-ments. Carry paints a blinded soldier Kidded towards a relief station, Mlibel ami I'ourarKUes shoxx- xxater-llooded trenibeo. IC soxerninents In the future w,lh more pleusaut and cheerful xxnr K'ene they will haxe to mil on nrl-Istl nrl-Istl who sta.xed away fiom the front. Those xx bo pencil were too close to death to pntnt niijthliu; but the truth |