New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-05-19

the fruit they bear in improved manufactuTes-lnstead
OF setting up bulwark against these ways OF thinking
and maintaining, so far lies in its power higher
standard the Academy has come dangerously near 10
shaking hands with the shopkcepng spirit OF our time,
and seems tempted to exchange It's throne for counting
house stool
The opening day OF the Academy Is a ceremony OF the
same kind az the opening day Of the drcssmakor and
mliuers And just "a ia these the tendency II every
year louder and louder bonnets, and to petueoats
even moro and more tempcstuous so 10 our picture
OPENINGS the temptation Is TO louder aud louder
pctures-pcnres that shall seize the eye aud make
sensation. Does any suppose, for Instance that
clever painter like Mr. Duyeneck, men OF promise IKE
Mr. Low aud Julian Weir would have painted tnesc
Women" II there had been Salon Academy 10
them TOT For OF what use are they outside oil INC
buy themf They are studies merely, interesting and
valuable to the artists who made them, and TO their
rary 10 the outside world. We them TO this neces
shy III one would be looked at at a Of doing something
striking which s forced upon our artists by the modern
system OF exhibitions.
GRTIsTs' WORK NOT SEEN.
do not speak now of the hcartburnings, the
elous;es. the disappontmonts the grievances-some-
times fanced often reathe meaunesses the injusticcs,
which plentiful crop is and springs mp with
every recurring Exhibition. am thinking on OF the
Exhibitions upon the work Of the artist
and far see this effect is almost always In
furious believe the tendency will be more and more
for the earnest, thoughtful artists to keep away from the
be seen
The difficulty is that the artists work must be seen by
the pubcif not for tie pubcs sake, certainly for tho
artists ske. set your statue in the hight OF the public
square," said Michcangelo and unless tue full light Of
public criticism is allowed to pOIr upon artists work.
bis work TO deterorlte. But how to accomplish
this cudi In old times ia Italy, an artists work was
by all the world the church walls or the walls OF
the town hall, fountain fac lde IN the public
square For nearly six hundred years the people have
bcep looking at GOttOs fresCOes the walls OF the
Arena Chapel; for nearly hundred years the D2-
vid OF MicheaugelO stood ia the air OF the great
this publicity OF many familiar. To-day the fashion
bring all the pictures and statues OF the world into
few central galleries. here they seen. conveniently
i is true, hut Of their proper rClatiuns, and ne
qucntly great disadvantage The fashion makes
bring each year all the pictures that nave been
painted in that year into one central cXhibon-lall and
there they be judged misiudgcd ~ bad lights In
the things that happen for artist 10 sec MS pic
urc well hung. There is not In the present Exhibition
single piCuG-GOt OuCOf those take any pleasure IN
THAT Is huug where can enjoy II.
II must have yearly exhibitions, thing Is plain:
Committee Admissions must bc much larger than
cants for admission aud thousand aud over were rc1s
tered. No three equal To the task OF passing
judgment on two thousand pictures. No three men can
hang hundred pictures rs they ought % DC hung
There ought TO he dozen hangers at least partly that
the pIYsica and mental labor may be divided, ana so
done better ana easily; partly to avoid partisan
feelings aud the mustccs that spring from prciudces
FOR against certain styles OF painting or against GER
tain tendencies in art C. e.
Netc- 0rh May 10, 1877.