New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-04-24
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS.
MEN AND THE WORKS OF MEN.

MEN AND THE WORKS OF MEN.
xHr CONFLICT OF TIKI USEFUL WITH THE BEAuTi-
yuI-PYNALTIRs OF MODERN SUGGESTIVE OLD
WORLDS INVASION OF THg NEw-A GiIMPsh VI
THE CRADLE or THE EMPIRE sTATE-rHk GOV
rRyMEyr AND THE orviCEs-wRoNds VI
TESAxrs-A LEGACY OF THE TWEED REGIME.
Passing with n friend through the rival exhibit
lions of American artists on Iwenty-thnd-st' ne
said that superior the Academy show was 'his
wear over other years, it followed decoration 700
nloc;dlv and painting too little. "Observe the
frames.n he remarked; - here an imitation OF very
old bronze, there carved and gilded wood yonder
obsolete styles of gilt silver and finally you see
picture in maple OF a common pine frame WIN n"
the quality of imagination pushed above the me "A
II 10 .say: Friend what doest thou here without
wedding garmentf Y"
ayes" admitted, it is a little IKE Coieriuge
lines:
.An thoughts all passions. I'll delights
Whatever stirs this mortal frdmef"
aWeIl.s continued the foe of the cabinet makers,
IL rather reminds of a story about man going
into horse auction. and asking if they manufac-
tured horses thercF Manufacture orses inquired
the cockney, what do you meanF 'oh l M"
sou,e frames of horses set up outside and thought
you manufactured EN-"
THE CIfYs CONCESSION.
The obvious is not made the subject oil lilns'ra-
tion enough the literary too often. Hester
Prynnc, Charlotte COrday, skipper lreson the May
flower people, the Luck of Roaring Camp all I'M
scen unknown models to the average painter are
continued down through n line of good beginners
while two turns OH Broadway will give actuai
models of every living race. Five thousand ltii'
ians are put down ms having come over this year
all IN Ncw-York Captain John Craig says he has
brought 900 direct from Naples, some br'gands
among Them Artists require legs To use M ther
own in all ages. Salvador Rosa went out III Caia-
bria and was "a brigand to yet a fame. Good m"deis
ore 10 be pursued. not waited for The picture oi
negroes hocng the tobacco plants III Virginia
seemed 10 be the freshest thing saw oil all anu
GOOD negro or muatto moOels are equal 10 Lgyp-
finn Al Charleston or New-OreanS' even at ! orr
ress Monroe or Baltimore the perfection OF sn'h
models is fonnd. But few Of cur salon painters
want 10 "tacklc" the human figure while foreign
exhibitors insist on subjects Indifferent to us, rs the
rising in La Vendee the invasion of France by
Clovis. Juliet in the Friar's cell, or Some modern
rortrait in ancient armor. The spirit OF the age Is
5emocratic.-neithcr scctarian nor heroic. neither
Puritan nor Royalist IL prefers q story in IA pc
ture. but wants it told in simplicity.
Imet Bispham. the animal painter. inst from Rome
after three wears absence. % am sick and tired
of il" he said, and want 10 be in Ncw-lork. but
I feel already the stunning contact of business NE
here. and could not work if | remained. The mind
nust get into quiet habits 10 paint with feeiihg.
We have so little literature because nobody here
can withdraw from the active street OF lIie Inns
;s the place TO sell pictures yondcr to make them.
Bnt why could not a painter live in some still
Mace nj home9 There are towns in Pennsylvania
but half a day from New-lork where board is only
five dollars week, and horses. cattle sheep ana
women match any models in the world. Such Is
old York in Pennsylvania, the golden antpodcs oi
New-York with flowing streams. fish. rocks noun
tans Dunkers, barns like castles, wondrous models
of old men, and beauties SURPRISING Rubens wives
Why do we seek refuge from ourselves and our
race in foreign places. 10 make things To please
home unless il be the havoc ourselves have male
unon onr souls and minds, And it is 80. DemOc-
,acv's success is the individual Democrats defeat
Everything has been lcye led up TIL things once IN
high relief are like geological models Of landscapes
only dcpressions in the surface. Where stool The
boldcst rocks the freshrt has eaten deepest INTO
the soil Yon,ler is the Senate. below the level 81
the people Where is literature, Degraded 10y
the deluge of general education Science Sun
teaches out of the old text books while telegraph
BOYS like Edison bring laughter against the faculty.
Thcoogians meet to confer upon the newer &c
mands of their congregations, half Of whom have
been in the Holy Land AMI know the landscape 10y
fact appalling to inspiration. We have done our
work ~ well that it is like the ra'n ihe prophet
uraved for. which drowned his race and IT. monu-
ments or rather il makes the verse OF Poe seem the
heart-broken cry of G,nius against Triumphant
Utility:
A voice from ont the Future cries
ION on but DER the past
dim GulfN my spirit towering lies
Mute. motionlcss, aghast!
Robert Hoe jr., in his work on collecting prints.
unconsciousy expresses from the very nav ana
stamp of his fathers printing presses the sens OF
artistic forornucss in the greatness of American
snccess: :" In this new country, where for the last
one hundred years Utility has been the predominant
idea. have often wondered why the poetic mind Of
the age has not created Goddess Of Utility, to
whom we might render homage
TIE FLEEING POHr.
The painting was once exhibited in the gallery
i'm the cathedral and fine frames were not necessary
10 the poor artist Now the painting is for the fash
ionsble household. and the frame-r1aker takes "a
mortgage on the artists labor. "You parasite,
thinks tho artist you Bohemian" ehnckies inc
frame maker
II is true that Democracy is liberal patron, bn'
also q conventional one. and how are we TO restore
the conditions which will set the creative spirit free
70 do its best work without being dragged behind
the chariot of frivolity utilityf fearful
penalty is the price of modern success the penalty
of daily concusson.-in competition, IN pleasures
in expense, in appearances. in meat and IN rest.
There has lecn one alleged literary success since
the war; and it grew out of mans utter defeat
aud despair lie went TO create home in cheaper
place of living and taking the spirit OF The age there
with him it awoke the sgirlt OF the previous age
aud flung him ont upon the world with nothing Dut
that long impotent experience, and he wrote 1t out
r.ls do al
he succeeded as he wished with the real errand Of
ten To fifteen Years literature might never have