New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-05-12

mcnt and culture comes face to face win tne "orkn
who minsfers 10 his 10y. He comes to know more OF
the nobility OF the workman and tho workman ieelns
the appreciation comes to know more oil the hoDty Vi
You have too many white walls More color is wanted
e %" WON the beauty and JOY Of color Take Whist
lers symphony in white, which you no doubt nave -
a az tHo !" sort go Think Of cool gray
sky. decked hero aud there with white clouds
rolled in white leaning over the water ana dropping
white flowers from their fingers Here are no extensive
Of which have had quite enough IN art But IL the
simple and uuaded color strikes the right key
note tho whole conception Is made clear regard Mr.
whstlcrs famous peacock room AS tue hnsst thing IN
color and art decoration which the world mas known
where the little children are dancing on the walls
Mr. Whistler nished another room inst before fore
ycllow wood tie curtains at The windows were white
and worked in yellow aud when the table set for
breakfast with dainty blno china, nothing be
ceived at once so simple and joyous
The fault which have observed in
most OF your rooms is that there is apparent
10 a keynote as 1t should be. The apartments
crowded with pretty things which have no relation to
each other Again, your artists decorate what Is
more simply useful. In your art schools | found
no attempt to decorate such things the
yesses Tor water know of nothing ugler than the or
dinary lug or pitcher museum COLD be filed with
the different kinds OF water vessels which are used IN
hot countries. Yet continue TO submit To the de-
pressing jug with the handle all side. do not
see the wsd IN of decorating dnnerplates VIII sunsets
and soup-pates with moonlight scenes. | do not
duck to take it ont OF snch gorcs Besides do not
want sOup-pate whose bottom seems 10 vanish In the
distance One neither feels safe comfortable under
OF the country that the difference explained be-
tween decorative and imaginative art.
THE CONDITIONS OF ART.
The conditions of art should be simple. great deal
more depends upon the heart than the head Apprecia
ton OF is secured by any elaborate scheme OF
learning Art requires good healthy atmosphere The
motives for still around about us as they were
| dohO the Ind he
easily found by the earnest sculptor aud
the painter. Nothing is picturesque and
graceful than work. Only idle people are nm
graceful The artist VINO goes to the chldrens play
ground watches them at their sport the boy stOop
to tie bis shoe will find the themes that engaged
the attention OF the ancient Greeks Aud such obscrva
lion aud the ilustra ions which follow VIII DO nuch 10
correct that foolish Impression that mental aud physical
TO YOU more than perhaps TO any other country has
nature been generous I'm furnishing materials Tor ort
workers work in. YOu have marble quarTles where
the Is beautiful in color that the Greeks ever
had for their beautiful work and yet DAY after day am
who has used the beautiful material "a II were not
precious almost beyond speech Marble should not be
used by noble workmen There Is nolhing
which gave me greater sense OI D par tt
absence OF wOOdcarvng on your houses Woodworking
is the SIM Hest OF the decorative arts In S"lzerahd
the little barefooted boy beauties the porch Of his
fathers house with examples OF skill in this direction
Why should American boys do great deal more and
Therels nothing my mind coarse in conception
and more vulgar III execution than modern Jewery'
This IL something that be easily corrected Some
thing better should be made out of the beantiul gOd
which Is ored in your mountain hOlOws ana slre"n
along your river beds When WAS at Leadvile aud re-
ected all the shining silver saw coming from the
mines would be made intO ugly dollars, II made me sad
Ii should be made into something more permanent The
golden gates at Florence are AZ beautiful to-day az Wheh
Mchae. An cello saw them. 49,
should not be content to haV' the salesman stand De
tween u.s. who knows nothing Of what he Is selling save
thai he is charging great deal too much for H. And
watching workncn WA tcach that most important
lesson, tue nobility Of all rational workmanship
THE PLACE OF ART IN EDUCATION.
said in my last lecture that would create a
brotherhood among by furnishing universal Ian
guage | said that under its benedcent Influences war
might pass away Thinking this what place can !
asoribe to art in our educatohl If children grow up
among all fair and lovely things, they will
grow to love beauty and detest ugliness before
they know the why. II you go into
house where everything is coarse you find things
Clipped and broken and unsighty. Nobody exercises
any care II everything if dainty and delicate, gentle
ness and refinement OF manner are unconsciousy ac-
CURED the Wien W Charters S eqneh There 'f used
to watch Great hulkng Chinese workman at his task
little cup delicate IN texture as tue petal OF
flower. Whereas in all tue grand hotels OF the land
git mirrors and eaqdy columns, have been given 10Y
thick 1 think 1 have deserved something nicer
The ART systems Of the past have been devised bv phi
osOphers who looked upon human beings rs obstruc-
lions They have med to educate boys minds before
they had any, How much better would II be In these
early years teach children to their hands IN the
rational service OF mankind (. would have workshop
attached TO every school, and hour day given up TO
The teaching OF simple decorative arts. Ii would be
IL golden nour to the children And
would soon raise up u race
OF handicrsmcn who would transform the face OF your
country. | Ony one suci school Ia the United
States. and this In Philadelphia, and was founded
by my friend Mr. Leland stopped there Yesterday
ana have brought some OF their work mere
THIS Afternoon to show you. Mr. Wide mere
turned the stand 10 adjoining table ana ueld
up the different articles he spoke OIL Here are TWO
discs of brass the designs them are bcautl-
Jul the workmanship is simple ana the entire result Is
satisfactory. The work done by Little boy twelve
years old. This Is wooden BOWL deco
rated by little girl OF thir-
teen The design is lovely and the cOlOring delicate and
pretty. The bowl painted black and yellow, and
looked like a sunfOwer with the cOlOrs run INTO each
otherl Here you piece Of beautiful wood carving
accomplished by little boy of nine. lIhs was
carving was visible to the audience. In such Work
this children learn sincerity In art They learn TO alb
hor the Lar III arthe man who paints wood to look like
iron look like 1t Is practical school OF
morals. ApplaueI No better way Is there to learn to
love Nature than ~ understand Art Ii dlgnics every
flower OF the held. And boy who sees the thing Of
beauty which bird ON the wing becomes when trans
ferred TO wood canvas will probably not throw tine
customary stone. What want Is something spiritual
added TO life Nothing is so ignoble that art cannot