New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-10-04
The Progress of the Fine Arts mo. II.

Art IS multiform. hence the term BE- Fine Arts
/. by 70 means De limited 20 sculpture, Painting snd
Poetry A steam engine. 20 use the isn-aage Of cod
win 3. poem {. machinery set % music-inferor snd
.upert1r metals evolving harmony typical % yet
p b., universal The word until very recently. has
been ,so much occupied In the procuring 90 meats and
drinks % devote much time % the consideration Of
AT or the interpolation Of subjects Of scientific IA
tre but noe i las discovered that man lives not by
bread siope" and hence the Hercgean laoors every
where being putforth Tor realization OF the ideai-or
Al embodymeni-s personfcation OF the airy as some
call IN creation. OF the brain. Are not our architects
our scientific engineers Artists Art Is supposed 70 oe
by immediate influx irue-5ut whs, is Art Is Il not
the embodiment OF an .des useful or beautiful And
if so. s-e not al men Artists This proposition IL equal
ty some will say with vengeance. Wei, BE- Il 50
some 20 honor Sc. il men VII 80 hsve it.
The man whose piercing eye snd comprehensive
mud scans snd compssses great work : IS much an
arts, a.. John the Baptist was Christian The N;ist
exists in a ls;,nt form within-hke Tobias snd san
bsuar be = engaged In a great WORK. and cannot dot
the complete man % be only an artist In writing thus
on the subject OF the Fine Arts et eschew the eN;u
.iveness Of oiaen times Morse this Telegraph, in his
asa.r With the lightning. not less an artist than
when 81 his easel under the eye OF the sns5e and de
vout West, Nor i he OF less service 20 man nor css
acceptable 10 the gods hs present than in his former
vocation Il may yet be acknowledged that Art Is SCI
erce-that science = Art 10 /. not incredible that
Shsk.pcare may Yet be regarded OF the inspired
among men and that the hands which drew the Car
,oon. from scrptursl subjects snd those which more
freely portray Nature and the stage exhibit Art were
necessary consequences insure the completion Of the
Divine VII Art thus literally viewed viii produce
catholic sentiment and universal cooperation IN fact
Il : 20 the growing hbersiy Of the age that W are In
debed for the present encouraging evidences Of ulu
mste triumph Again look al the Theater. In many
places now the only temple OF the Arts.
The parents aud friends of Benjamin West were
much pcrpiexed with the question OF their son dest
nv or future occupation His early mani estatons OF
great talent however induced them believe that he
was the instrument OF Providence snd thus he was
tolerated By the very grave sect from which he came
forth little hbersity with equal amount OF
understanding would teach the bigo. OF our day that
our great Artists In the Drama derive their CREST
talents from no other Need We inform the
reader whence every good and perfect gin eomethor
that eoquence gesture, form and apprehension are
gifts the among men. Who can look without
emotion on the mastery deueations OF character a.
exhibited by the princely looking Hambln In his Ham
let and his Corioauus Az Plscide, in the polished old
English Gentleman the iacetous, gsrrulous Gsul -
How exquistely natural Chppendae in his strokes OF
humor and in nervous old age
II all the world be stage then Is the Church, even,
minor thes,er. and the priest too is an Artist To him
words are paints and the understanding OF his auditors
Is the canvas on which his pictures are wrought
Among the priests there many great artists Does
stripping paint likeness, 10 an Artist Go 10 Nib
los ,nd the younger Placide Chppendse, and
many others. in characters that lived and moved in
other days and say not such Artists AS these Of as
much importance for the delight and instruction OF the
world those Of any other class Art can have no
higher aim than instruct and awaken delightful emo
tons. and emotions Of a mixed and also Of sublime
and character and if al this is exhibited in dramatic
representation who shall prescribe or even lightly
esteem this branch Of the Fine Arts ".