New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-12-14
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TIE DRoOKLYN ASSOCIATION.

TwEHTY-FFTH EXHIBITION oP PICTURES.


TO be congratulated the group OF three ediheos OF
which tho Art building makes one FOR s1cb phonOm
enon as that Of three thoroughly webuit, we'll
plnbed welldcsgned public buildings In street Is
10 be found far know In any other city this
continent Then tho Art Association, having given
piece Of architecture 10 enjoy and to be proud Of
ceases 20 take pains mako It's yearly exhibition
worthy "a u can of tho walls that shelter It. Aud
finally il does tho last best thing in opening
It's doors freely to the public, and showing all Of IS
what II has 20 show. without money aud without price
To who really believes thar good pictures and
statues something than matters Of luxury.
little higher in tho scale than champagne and terrapn
but Injuries for all that; who believes that they arc
clvzIng influences, and help tho forward, IT must
always have been added pleasure in visiting the gal
eries and museums Of Europe to remark that the Wis
Ors TO those places are not confined to the rich and
educated Glasses but that they frcquented by oil
sorts OF people In the National Gallery in London, In
the Louvre. ia the Vatican. IN the Pitt Palace, in
the Naples Museum, We may sec how the man
nors OF tho common people arc refined
by this sharing with tho higher classes
tho companonshp OF tho splendid works Of genus. In
the freedom with which the whole population is allowed
10 enjoy these great treasure-house5 we have often
thought that noble Of true democracy is SGT
at home, where such collections have mover
If there be exceptions they so rare that we never
hear Of them-thrOwn open freely TO the public. Even
II money be demanded az tho door, there must be
cards of invitation Of membership. some password
that makes barrier. But the Brooklyn Art AssOca-
ton has set excellent example in breaking this Gus
TOM and last evening" happening in at about O'clock
when all the world and bis wife stepped In
for glance at the pictures on It's way to
dinner confess took comfort IN the presence
OF two Irish scrvautgs who made tho slow round OF
the gallery and appeared 20 be enjoying IT, than we did
In all the rest Of the people; had their we'll
hefor
in picturegallery Of that sort and enjoying It, to boot
we never before, though glad 10 believe that
the Brooklyn people may have seen tho thing often.
TIE TRIBUNE as all its readers know does not say
for the first time that the only way to make people
love art, Co make them capable OF judging it, and TO
at tribunal for the artists hemselvess to make
good art accessbe TO put where 1t can be easily seen,
and then win the public by all attractive ways to look
at II, and TO study IT,
1t ought by tins time 90 be vol understood among ms,
that Is not possible In the present state Of our public
culture MI two large galleries like those OF tho Brook
Ign Art Association with pictures worth looking at No
doubt the Committee has tried to make tho exhibition
evenly good possible but our own opinion that
it serves better purpose to get together many good
pictures possible and 10 admit few Indifferent ones
as human nature-the human nature OF pieture-makers
and Of pctureowners will allow To go the rounds OF
some picture galleries il fatigue enough to bring
slight woman or n man not strong TO enforced rest on
bed sofa and the looking at every picture In two
such rooms as those " Brooklyn is WEAKNESS TO the
flesh All the good pictures. and there are not few,
might easily have been hung in either OF these rooms,
aud the study Of so manywoud have becn pleasant and
profitable There Is such thing smotherlng fire with
ashes.
The gallery Of the Art Association has for ts principal
attractions two large pictures by BIron Wrappers and
By p. Won schendel. Won schendeps picture may be
dismissed in few words II i the picture which at
the sale Of thola Mr. LcGrand Lockwood disputed pre-
ocdence, IN badness, with Mr. Bierstadts Yosemite"
Mr. Won SoheDdel Is that terrible bore who appears in
every collection OF imported pictures sido by side with
that other terrible bore old Mr.. Yerboeckhoven, Won
sChend, painting eternal aud women buying fruits
andye getabe by the light Of impossible candesthe sole
value Of the pictures consisting In the supposed excel
leDce with which the effect OF candle light upon cab
bages, turnps oranges, ana human faces is depicted
II Mr.. Won schendel had painted such picture and
stopped, We should a have been resigned. but he has
painted. a moderate calculation, many thousand
such, and VIC bagin to weary OF them. Stl, should
have preferred the cabbages turnps and features
such performance rs this Annuncation." We should
prefer TO take it mp pieoe-mea and show in detail
why and whore it bad, but the enumeration would
De too long and would De tedious as the picture
itself Tie subject one Wat has been painted 80 often
and beautifully, thereiwas excuse for Mr. Won
sohendel leaving his cabages to try his hand at it
unless no had something new 10 say. Having proven
that lie not only has nothing new to Oor tho world
this theme, but that he cannot say tho Old things
IN way reverence to stir hearts-pray
let him stick 20 his last, and go exciting the peren
NAL wonder OF simple minds by his clover oandeight
Cabbages.
"Ibe Landing OF the Pilgrim Fathers" by Baron wap-
pers must be taken for the aleSory that II is II we
would guess Alright. II absurdity, If looked
at a representation of actual event Tue eminent
Belgian has here intended to bring together into
picturesque group the typical characters Out Of whom
the Republic to spring. We have in the confer
group that may be imagined 10 stand for the family"
the bright cOnsummate flower Of human love- and duty
OF uselfsh devotion, and unieed aims There are the
father and mother, the infant, the young boy and the
little Cir; a group finely drawn, with ndi-
viduai character. beauty just short Of the
ideal, and enlisting our sympathies by its
faithfulness to nature Then there the contrast
OF youth and ago in another grouprey and ven
cradle example, sweetness Of pure maidonhood I'm the
two girls sngng, at the extreme left: the patriots de-
voton In the soldier who looks up TO Heaven the dig
nifty labor, in the nobleookng mechanic, who seems
offer his tools and hmEe for the service OF the CON-
munty; respect for religion, In tho preacher who ex-
horis the assembly. The skin with which this picture ~
painted, the beauty OF the younger faces. and the
earnestnes5 which pierces through tho academic
formulas OF tho treatment, mako tho work more
interesting than might be imagined from tLis
dry category Of its contents But It DO donied
that composition 1t is snguary detective cOnsld
ering how famous are tho hands from which it comes
Not only there center of interest thero no
unity Of action The elder girls singing the little
girl Is picking wild flowers, the minister IL exhorting
the soldier is yowing, the mechanic is talking about the
work to be done. One cannot help thinking he looks
Mt it, what good picture IL would be 10 cut up INTO
small pictures Instead OF one great wapper multi
tude OF little Wrappers TO distributed
Brons Creation "a picture whose subject has pre-
vented lie groat merits of execution, even OF con-
cepton from being fairly acknowledges TO be seen
here again, well hung in good light. Mr. Ehu vediers