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Show "DORE'S GHOST GWDES MY HAND," SAYS ARTIST "FINGERS OF THOSE LONG DEAD ARE CREATING NEW ART" li . i "Vu - Hi l i.i lit SPORE, VRTIS1 WHO SPIItlTS l DOR1 Mi OTHER Mi i ISTS ill:i I I ill i: iVOKK Bl Itl I H M l MM. i;W YORK. The world of art and psychic research Is wati King the work of Flora Spore, a dentist iho became an artist., firmly C mvlilCI I tlr.t t'l" old masters seek to attain their un-lealized un-lealized ambition) through herself Mlv.-i Spore believes the bru;iii.J . In her visible hands are moved by the. invisible finr; ri of artists long I dead, who arc making hor the medium me-dium of creating a new art, tree from the limitations of the psychical, nhoundlng In the strength of the splMtua.il J "1 am ii dentist by prote-.-Uon," j ays Miss Spore. "and ha I my own office In Bay City. Ml"h.. where I on-I on-I ployed two assistant". It never Iv.d I occurred to me t.'iit anything but dentistry would Le iny Ifa work, un-i un-i til after my mothe: died. i IRST SPIR1 i Ml BS vi. I V fief ore liver death I i. lii bad j any Jnterest i'i spiritualism or I psj-chlc iihenomena. but ihortly after her death r received a communication, com-munication, ordering me no, to uo to my office any more. Put to paint. "It seemed utterly foolish a first but more vnicc.-t kept ropedting the mandate. So I bough: some paints and dabbled with them evenings. But every morning after that I hoard u protest when I started for the offii a '".Now I had never touched a pnlr.tj brush before. I "I -.ii down Rt m" eaael Voices would tell mc what brush to tr.ke and which uaipt to use ami guide my hand in Its strokes. They even told me the exact dimensions of the canvases to get. l i i I v FROM SPIRIT "Tho voire:; became, so persistent." continued Silas Spore! "that 1 decided decid-ed to close my office and go to visit rny brother, the acting . governor Of Cuam. "All of the time I wus there I heard the voices, urging mo to n--i turn to the states and paint, j "In November tnc- urge bocamo so strong I had to obey. I reached New York in December und have isen here pointing since. "There are five or six artists whose presence 1 feel while I an.' working. Doro revealed himself by! I'name. "There is one who calls hlmsel:' Romano and another, Porogri 1 'have never been able to get the end-; ing dearly " -i u k i - u INSPIRATION iJore needs no identification. Qulllo liornano was apprenticed to 1 Kapha.. 1 and by the latter's will was ntrusted to finish the frescoes In tho Vatican, loft unfinished by the master. He died In 1S33. J'eregrlnl was rather an obscure, Italian engraver of the 15th century, i Some of Miss Spore'd work Is pure-ly pure-ly docorative. oranges, grapes and apples of heroic size, with a peculiar brightness of tone, and a very origr lual method of color application. Her landscapes have an orential atmospjieru and each one has a I meaning The most outstanding lsl one of the world, peopled with a .Ijr.cing throng, and caught In Its whirl through space Just poised above the tree of death. |