Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-06-18

From Tau- Notes on Paris"
- 4 hard life that Of an artist There are
,nsn Of fifty. "ho~e names are famous, who
200 not earn ten thousand francs.
About thirty, after ten years study. he
,ins t1 produce something then sales
must be made, and 10 make sales the artist
must have the tact OF salesman. Some 90
lasting and put in here and there a three
franc lesson but even that Is ii chance. Some
Iaint backgrounds for photographs. or large
.-n-Inard- vt forty, with real merit or
friends IN the newspapers, he may get into
rtl.c by constant exhibition and putting
AHIi nifty he can earn little money and
.-- aught the rheumatism.
Each year the real number Of artists
90 "- less and less, Taste has declined since
tc ai'i>-on Of pauimonies has broken for
trg~ INTO crumbs, and the greut profits Of
te Ir-e soil society with new and vulgar
wealth Amateurs sell their galleries. bar
gun Hth TictureS-dealcrs, speculate unon
.er stores. To succeed, three things are
aaaa. The first, that at the exhibition
ua rich bourgeois shall say There Is a cav
.aat.n-->eene, which will DO yerv well for
..e .riraand panel of my dining-room .,
lir -e'9nd, That be feel in the humor To
-.eii h.~ money. that he has faith in his
Hn taste, that biz wife does not say no . in
short, that De buys. The third that his
friends, Aa'ing bresklastei before the pic
trc. order copies.
But the five Thousand pictures of The ex-
position distract the attention. DESTROY all
.tiaiy woman is pretty, alone by her
..'-'de, an her ea~y-chair put her among
.-Atl 'al!-dre~~es and She Is lost How do
iae two or three miles of pictures which are
-.tten up each year in Paris find sale? Re-
Ply is impossible. On this route the crowd
greater than any OF the Others. For thirty
ears back the chiet characters Of novels
whose heroes were formally Young gentle
men, have been artists, especially painters.
IAefeupon craze in this direction num-
herS ct young fellows, who would have made
eXes.lent clerks, have bought CATERS and let
their boards grow What are they to do
iur their dinners
Many a one Is Worn out This one takes
a whole summer to finish a study. He erubs
out, paints over, rub- out again. ends in los
ing all true feelings, becomes cross. irritable.
talks leyerl>hly and by itS and starts. ike
man who has a nery0u, attack.
Many have utterly thwarted their M
'lie' and after fifteen years ofstruggle. fnd
themselves powerleSS. Instead Of an in |
aEuaton iull TO overflow, and an impulse To
pour 91t On the canvas the very superauity
% Their ''ains, they resemble the parched.
4nel-up spring, which at long intervals |
-eaA' oat m miserable drops. A friend
CONES Ia. lie is stopped by gesture,
sand i1.t as you are stretch out your arm.
Perhaps have found the attitude have
been boxing for. At last. by mere chance.
'ad after hundred cropping hesitations,
.ney hang up something, and The creature,
thus brought into the world by miracle. is
4 lretentious abortion.
Some resign themselves to make bust
leN' OF their art. They paint daubs at forty
ane- apiece At the end Of certain time
lie fine artist spring is oyerstrained. worn
'ut' and they remain mere mechanics for the
rest OF their lives. Others return 10 their
homes in the country, stir UP their relatives
md paint portraits.