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Show I JUDGE HOLAPP' I SPEAKS ON ART H Judge Rolapp, at the Art Exhibit H InRt night, spoko as follows: H "Ladles and Gontlomcn: Nov,' that you havo listened for several even- H ings to the comments on art made H by laldcs and gentlemen who have H made tho matter a study, I suppose H the committee in charge concluded H to invito mo to spoak to you this H evening for tho purpose of furnishing H an illustration of tho manner in which H thoeo outsldo of the Inner art circles H view tho subject of paintings, sculp- H turo, and higher architecture. I am H one of those who have never had tho Hj advantage of making art a study 1 H am one of those nlnetj -and-nlno In Hj every community who are unablo to H tell any more about a picture than Hl that It ploascs or dlspleasea the eye, H and who are apt to disclose their ig- H nornnco by givlpng flret prize to au Hj Inferior picture, unless some other H painting has attached to its canvas H the name of some well-known artist. Hj "But after all, painters, like au- H thors, aro human beings; and as such H sooner or later accept as their stand- H nrd the popular Ideas of their sur- I H roundlngs They become the concern- I H tratcd echo of the various Ideals pos- I H Bossed by their contemporaries. As j H their neighbor improes, so thoy ad- H vancc, alwajs maintaining a little H lend of the multltudo, because their H powors of obscnallou are more pro- H indent than those of the nverago ln- 1 dividual. H "For this reason art is the best H preserved index of the mental and H moral pi ogress of mankind. Wc can H bettor trace the history of the world H and human development in general H by observing the work of artists in H their different generations, than we M can through any other means of in- M a book may describe a place, a peo- M pic or an event, jet experience has M taught us that the mind -picture thus H created is usually entirely wrong, or H very much blurred When we come H in actual contact with the people or H places wc have read about, or when M v,q arc confronted with a painting M on the same subjects, we are aston- M ished at our former erroneous con- M ccptlons. M "It Is therefore now generally ad M mltlod that there exists no better cd- M ucators" of young and old, than travel H and pictures. Most of us aro so slt- H uatcd that extensive travel is lm- H practicable, and vo aro therefore very M much blessed in these modern times' M by being furnished with excellent m copies of pictures, at a cost which en- H nhles every community to enjoy the H advantages of every other. H "I havo visited all the noted galler- H ics from Naples to London, and the H few we havo in America, and yet 1 H am frank to confess that from an art H standpoint I am not very much im- H proved. But from the standpoint ot H general development I havo received H a great deal of benefit from that ex- M perience. I have a different concep- H tlon of nature, both animate and in- H (Continued on Page Fifteen.) """"" oo j jumFrolapp SPEAKS ON ART J (Continued from Pago Two.) $ animate. It has taught me to look j for beauty among the moat commou- . place 8urroundIngs, because pictures ;j havo revealed to me things I have 'j never noticed before. I havo received if 1 a clearer Idea of the present and a paet advancement of human character, fll because paintings have given mo a truer Insight of the usually inforior ; barbarian, Jloman and medieval lire '4 and Ideas. ; "You have never appreciated real ,j nature until you have studied Rosa i Bonheur's "Horse Fair," or Dupre's "Balloon." You have never apprccl- j ated the grandeur of heaven and wat- it er until you have contemplated Smith-Hald's "At Sea." You havo a 1 clearer notion of the terrible brutal- I ity and refined extravagance of the 1 ancients after you have studied "Cle- 2 opatra'B Experiments "With Poison."' f by Cabanel; or the "Christian Mar-I Mar-I tyrB1 by Qerome; or "Alaric, the rt Goth, as Conauernr !n Athnni-" vi- Thiersch; or the "Triumph ofGer- i j manicufl in Rome," by Plloty. You can better understand the mental ad- vancoment in the Greeks when you ; l note the eager attention upon tho I faces of Tadema'6 "Reading Homer." V You appreciate the Intensity of the I conversion of early Christians as ! Sauzaj-s pictorial story or a. "Chrls- t tlan Mother'' unfolds itself to your '; mind. ."Your love of the Master- Is ueces- J sarily augmented as you note his ; : calm demeanor among the intemper- i ate mob in Munkacsy's wonderful ', portrayal of "Christ Before Pilate"; and even your patriotism Is stlmulat- i ed by Bacon's "Boston Boys," or j "Washington dossing the Delaware." -' "So I might continue to enumerate the pictures here displayed before f you, or- those in other collections; but s it would serve no useful purpose. Tho pleasures of art cannot bo en-i: en-i: joyed by proxy, nor can anvOne de-3 de-3 termine -what you should "consider I superior in art That depends upon j) yourself, and upon your opportunity ;y for becoming personally acquainted I with the works of the masters. It I depends upon the state and' develop--i nient of your mind; not upon wnat another may say to you about It. Im-m Im-m presslons of pictures among non-pro-1 fessional8 are as changeable as their f moods, and as varied as the esthetic h tastes they have cultivated To an I; Infant or a barbarian a picture Is slm- ply pleasing, and unaided , by any J other development, paintings only im-. im-. i press us with their Intensity of har-! har-! mony, beauty and character." "But art haB a greater mission, which we all unconsciously accept, and that l6 tho fact that it stimulates i the onlooker into inquirv concern- : Ing the story the picture tells. That result, and the development of ob- servation, and the bringing or nature r closer to us, are really the great things that art does for the child, and for art's lmmatured devotee. ? 'Tor this reason 1 sincerely wel come the introduction of these pictures pic-tures into our schools, and into our homes. If it were possible. I should wish every child to have an inspiring inspir-ing picture facing Its bed, so thqt Impress Im-press thereof would go with him in his dreams, and the reality thereor ' would meet the child's eye at its first awakening. That may not be lmprac-I, lmprac-I, ticable. But it is comparatively easy 4 to give to tie child at school the advantages of observ-tion and lull lu-ll if quiry, which necessarily results from J i having masterpieces of art constant-I constant-I I ly before him. Under such circuro-J circuro-J 'J stances the child's Idle moments in y ' school will not be losL Gradually 1 h and Increasingly the child's eye will' be directed to, and rfvoted upon those Pictures; and tho teachers will soon discover a more eager' Intergat in those matters -which tho eye has seen than In those- which have Bimnly reached the ear. "I heartily applaud the action or the school officials for making these efforts to thus advance tho mental nature of every child ,In the public schools of Ogden, And if In the actual ac-tual Introduction of those pictures I can be of any Bcrvlce whatever, I shall bo only too pleased to show that even a non-professional can be interested In true art," |