New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-01-09

form and color but the Of conveying thought
sinks into the SOUL rather than by what is the
surface; must have its rootage in humanity In paint
ing flower tree stem. for example, do not want
mere dead outside copy. As we look on them 10
nature they have life As we look on them reproduced
the PALMER putting his life in the work and by his mind
being 80 ma ws tne spirit OF nature teas ' os
creating through the painters mind that the picture
is a double creation-recreation with rootsge human
and divine. Pre- Raphaeltism will set the student on
the right road at starting and deal OF time, but
will not give him wings TO ascend the highest heaven
| OF invention. IL must depend on the mans nature
whether these principles OF working shall be to him
Gp od Dn wagon or Winch he podS
by ditch and dyke painter with the sordd soul III
NATIVE and saints Denner sces te in the oread
Oul wrinkles. Andrea del SartO will paint you
Of sGn Sat Of na Th9 bv the s sad shadow
on your spirit as you look or course we know wen
na"e nat as gives the final ultimate value to every fact
OF the finite. There two faces to all things; The
oer s the aspect Of Eternity We also know
that all objects OF external nature give us the higher
The shT droopng grace Of the all
birch thrill Va with plrcr ana n0ber pleasure
than TIN contemplation OF the apple tree loaded with
apples. Nay tho apple tree in blossom has lar higher
beauty and spiritual value than troe IN frn except
in the market gardener sense All visible facts have
their invisible relationship, but that mas the highest
beauty which connects from the invisible without
W. to thu invisible within us MY point Is that pre-
RaphaeitIsm does not imply such attention to the sur
face faGs Of the finite as to lose tho perception OF their
infinite relationship.
Asan You must not suppose that pre- Raphaeltism 10
the rendering OF tho hands breadth OF natur mnutest
handiwDrk, patch OF moss on an old tree-trunk,
sprg Of ivy wreathing old fence, or blue pach Oh
speedwll green grassy bank II IL not confined to
this VIC scale OF work than nature herself
Turner's Just gigantic preRaphaelitc lie gives you
sympa ny absolute 10 is like Shakespeare Nothing
Is for his recognition nothing TOO vast Tor inc
range Of his powers. PreRaphaesm - not dependent
the distance the nearness OF thing not on the
size Of the picture or the skill OF the painting Dn! on
the ABSOLUTE truth to nature matter what the suect
t may be said OF the Dutch pot and pan school OF
uuththat il in them, however low then subjects range
bit oftruth to nature on tho ground hoOr OF ART
bigbe IN worth than any falsehood on tue Top hoor
Really, says Carlyle. is the only romance Tor grownup
peop.-reaty rightly interpreted That Is the end ana
aim the pre- Ra phaelite. But these people who are
afrai reality, and who shrk it II 1t were totally
made up OF warts and wens and wrinkles nave shore
cut perfection by the aid OF what they ca, t inc
"ide.l." Their idea seems to he tnat poetry ior n
stane. is not something IN nature, put n & me-
Is generated out of the poets BRAIN ana wnc Gan h
stucl to common things Ike spinges 10 MAXI tnen
shlnt with borrowed hnery Ihs ideal appoar. W 70 n
uBdsnable something which is bound 20 come a. tne
call OF any fellow VINO uses ITS shippoieIn' no
mater what his ignorance OF IRE, ms t thos
of experience may be. In opposition 10 TINS
| assert that the greatest minds have got their
best d nGi Sns q Tne OILY appro"oh
ideals through the real and here we ma there are 10
bounds there il no bottom to the reality Ana mere
NAV Ibserye that do not look the socaed super
naGun something apart from nature. bnt as the
strkts rootage and draws It's life Great harm IL
done " looking the spiritual rs something 80 apart
feel itby an act OF miracle IL life not great
mystsy as death can be. Why ifc Is tho eternal
mystey; death but the my stery VI moment. 50 FAR
is thisdoctrnc lies without meaning carried seems
as N that which think know were just that por
ton which we shut God out or And then we demand
an exra act Of faith enable to believe IN Gods
seen proper domain, which we call the supernatural
We neel expanded sphere OF the natural or else
a more familiar class of the Things divine.
Mr. Massey showed now the pre-IaphaeIlte scbooi
made war upon the critical c1nOns laid down by Sir
Joshua Reynolds He ridiculcd the Rnphaelcsq1c ideal
What Ices meant he SAID. Is 1t not the vulgar idea
that all heroes must show their greatness with their
signs OF gness It's not for me 10 stand up mere,
some four and assert that the greatest men
nave been the smallest but the fact Is that the greatest
war captains, Alexander. julius Cesar, Napoleon, Mel
son. Grant Charles James Napier were small men Ile
popular ideal does take in the TACT that little men
often cond-nse the devil INTO he smallest piece.
Mr. Massey claimed tor pre- laphdeltsin that IL was
the only way OF getting out OF these conditions, 80 as TO
thingsas they and paint them as we see them
lie told story OF Holman Hunts early struggles and
pointed final He gave various appuca-
tions OF lie and literature to the principles Tnack
eray's Neycomes and BoswelPs Lie of Johnson were
quoted as onderfui specimens OF pre- Rspnaciism