The New York herald., 1868-04-27
''korEs ON ART.


During the last week the Academy Of Design has
come in for its full share Of the blessing OF spring
weather. The galleries have been thronged not only
with those who to while away an idle nour, but
also with many who show by their manner that they
earnest admirers Of art and seekers after the true
and beautiful IL IL pleasant to notice. In this con-
nection, how the Academy is yearly gaining ground
in popular estimation. Every exhibition q larger
number Of visitors 60 there and every year it be-
comes more ana more widely known. So soon as
the exhibition, as In London and In Paris becomes
event anticipated with eager anxiety the quality
OF the pictures viii vastly improve and the best
artists throughout the country win strive to obtain
place upon the walls, instead OF leaving the space
be monopolized by crude beginners and unrpe
students 1t is well that OF the older artists,
with whose works the public is surfeited and Of
whose routine machine productions is tired should
fall back and cede their places to younger and esher
intellects But there are many OF our artists whose
names can be III spared from any catalogue and ii s
wrong that they should be unrepresented in an
Academy exhibition The great fault OF the younger
painters Is that they attempt TO put upon
canvas ideas yet undIgested, having neither the
execution nor the requisite faculties. BY being
afforded an opportunity to ventilate their Inn
mature thoughts the popular taste is deterorated,
and they themselves, '.pufed with the hollow wind
Of vain conceit" !" make further forward steps, 1t
is the young artists OF the present day to whom we
are to look for distinctive American school OF
painting and they should be spufred on toward sue
cess, instead OF being allowed to remain satisfied
with some clever trick or novel method Of treat
ment
In the present exhibition there are many paintings
by some OF the freser artists that are but reproduc-
tons OF the same ideas with which they made hit,
when first attracting public attention. Instead OF
advancing they seem to have remained stationary,
oblivous Of the fact that he who goes not forward
drops behind and that the fruit which does not ripen
is soon out OF season and ut only to be thrown
The amiabe but pious Mrs Hannah More says in
one OF her letters that there are only two evils in the
world-sln and bile. She might surely have extended
neglect les petites soins. n. Honore de Baizac
rudenesses OF which ignorant, though we-meanng,
persons are 80 often guilty; and he was right, for
80 so asgreeaole @ or oensive as 70 witness
amenities. We believe that Mr.. Dickens left the
country without undergoing the misery Of having his
been spared martyrd0m Of this kind, he might
yet have written facetious appendix to
other evening. The galleries were crowded with
ladies' and nevertheless there were men present who
ha a h tns sr respect and to
dehantly settled upon their heads. True, they may
have been Jerseymen or "young men from the
The most striking and noticeable picture in the
south room is No: 3i4, "ihe Forging OF the Shaft"
by Mr.. John +. Weir-a scene In the Cold Spring
Foundry. 1t Is q companion piece to the painting
which, IT Will be remembered, Mr.. Weir showed
at one OF the late Academy exhibitions. The mo-
ment chosen is when the glowing iron at white
heat is being Withdrawn from tho furnace. The
br liant light radates from the heated metal bring
ing out into bold relief the bronzed swarthy faces Of
the w0rknlen, the huge, pOnlerous machinery and
massive, shapcless heaps OF unborn power intensi-
flying the heavy black shadows which i the corners
A In ha Jpof
produced by the minglng of the hot lurid furnace
air and the faint pale snnbcams tremblingly steal
ing down from the cobwebbed so0ty roof. The fig
urcs powerfully drawn and are replete with force
and animation. The light and shade are well man
Certain but has s moec Is On 70
count OF the dramatic subject than by reason OF the
manner IN which Il 10 executed i Is an improve
better knowledge OF color and more conscientious
study.
At the other end Of the room. opposite to this,
hangs work BY Mr.. Edward II. May entitled sCal.
wins First Communion" The greater part of the
70 the Of wSoss
Pupil ne was ,or long time while that which is
paed to be- Socd W nnresed oo
Calvin before the rock which serves as an altar
Around him are grouped several figures. evidently or
and the costumes true and harmoniously colOred
The picture s interesting as showing that Mr.. May
alone, could readily become strong sound artist.
No. 1853, The Plains at the Base of the Rocky
nctnre Snow Canned ns IN ,nn s,ssne gue'
an intermediate piain and q river in the fore1ro,nI
constitnto the cosnnnnant ur,; % .s s
are several Inans little des,zcS Snr na snc sae ef
beauty looking not aue 40 dirty and dehamcIed es M
original article TO he easilv recogniSahic verv es
fectiye indeed s the i,nnressic,, 81 snoco et,oer
the mountains and the river - r S'SSA
"The Price of Blood ;; by Mr. Tbomaa q No,,e 10
an extraordinary. if' not a STARTLING nrnSnctIon
Seated BY table is an aged person ut would be
y surcrinq from some internal thep
or which We are unab,e to determ,}na Il nav ts,at
his conscience IL maItrcatinC him IN the so no
ner "a ala Richard the Thir,s on the ave- os paa
worth field or he NAV ha nniv nndar@oipS On " ottocr
Of that vicious but Common compiainte Known "S as
indigestion Whafevar ynisarr r, n,av ~ "sa,"s "s
him. It has surely had most may SeetsrinUs sH,Cs
eject for more Woo hacone Iraorv a~nsos se
sion was never worn by MORTAL Reside
him stands hend in human form looking if roaai-
bio Uoroo thon tho aforasasd m.fa "a s
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