The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-11-01

much IN ink as In all the col0rS OF the
spectrum. In 1888 forth from Stras-
burg, Germany, there came child that
was to eclipse in speed and boldness and
grandeur anything and everything that
the world had seen since the first color
appeared on the sky at the creation, Paul
Gustav Dore. AT II years Of age he
published marvellous Autographs Of
his own. Saying nothing Of what
he did for Milton's paradise
Lost" emblazoning It on the at
tention of the world, he takes up the
Book of Books, the monarch Of htera-
ture, the Bible, and in his pictures ''The
Creation Of Light, 1.-THE Trial Of Abra-
hams Faith, +" 1.-THE Burial of Sarah, !"
Joseph Sold by His Brethren, 'sThe
Brazen Serpent" ssBoaz and Ruth, I"
David and Goliath, (" 1.-THE Transfigura-
tion," 1.-The Marriage in Cana, s.Baby-
Ion Fallen" and two hundred and five
Scriptural scenes in all, with boldness
and grasp and almost supernatural
affiatus that make the heart thsob, and
the brain reel, and the tears. start, and
the cheeks blanch, and the entire nature
i quake with the tremendous things Of
God and eternity and the dead. ac-
tually staggered down the steps of the
London Art gallery under tha power Of
Dore's 's0hrist Leaving the Prmtorium."
Profess you to be Christian man or
woman, and see no divine mission in art,
and acknowledge you no obligation either
in thanks to God or mani
1t is no more the word Of God dsxheng
put before us in printers Ink than by
skillful laying on Of colors, or designs on
metal through incision or corrosion.
What a. lesson in morals Yves presented
by Hogarth, the painter, In his two pic
lures, "The Rake's Progress" and .'fhe
Miser's. Feast;" and by Thomas Coles
engravings Of the Voyage of Human
Life" and the ''Course of Empire;" and
by Turner'S Slave Ship" God in art!
Christ in art! PatriarchS prophets and
apostles iii artl Angels In ert! Heaven
in art.
The world and the church ought to
come to the higher appreciation Of the
divine mission of pictures, yet the
authors Of them have generally been left
| painter, toiled in unappreciation till, be-
| ing a great skater, while on the ice he
formed the acquaintance Of Gen. Howe,
of the English army, and through COM
ing to admire West as a skater, they
| gradually came to appreciate as much
that which he accomplished by his hand
as by his heel. Poussin, the mighty
| painter, was pursued, and had nothing
with which to defend himself against the
mob but the artists portfolio, which he
held over his head to keep off the stones
hurled at him. The pictures Of Richard
Wilson, of England, were sold
for fabulous Gums of money after
his death, but the living painter
was glad to get for his .'Alcyone'' piece
of Stilton cheese From 1910 to 1913
| there were 4,G00 pictures willfully de-
stroyed. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth
| it was the habit. of some people to spend
much of their time in knocking pictures
| to pieces, In the reign of Charles the
! First it was ordered by parliament that
all pictures Of Christ be burnt. Painters
were SO badly treated and humiliated in
the beginning Of the Eighteenth century
that they were lowered clear down out of
the sublinlity of their art, and obliged to
give minute accounts of what they did
with their colors, as a painters bill
which came to publication in Scotland
III 1907 indicated. The painter had
been touching up some old pictures
in the church, and he sends in this
itemiZed bill to the vestry: ITO filling up
chink in the Red Sea ard repairing the
damages to Pharaohs hosts;'' s.to new
pair Of hands for Daniel in the lions den,
and new set of teeth for the lioness;''
ssto repairing Nebuchaslnezzar beard;''
ito giving blush to the cheek of Eve on
| presenting the apple to oAdam;" ito max
ing bridle for the Good Samaritan IS
horse, and mending one of his legs" ito
putting on q new handle on Moses basket
and fitting bullushes, and adding more
fuel to the fire in Nebuchadnezzar' S fur
mace" So painters We're Inundated clear
down below the majesty of their art. The
oldest picture in England, a portrait OF
Chaucer, though now of great value. was
picked out of lumber garret. Great
were the trials of Quentin Matsys, who
toiled ON from blacksmth's s anvil Till as
painterhe won wide recognition. The frs
missionaries to Mexico lnade~thcS fata'
mistake of destroying pictures, for the
loss of which art and. religion Smust eyel
lament. But why go SO far back wher
in this yearof our Lord 1888. and within
twelve years of the Twentieth century
to be a painter, except in rare exceptions
means poverty and neglect? poorly fed
poorly clad, poorly housed, because
poorly appreciated When hear q maj
is painter, haye two feelings: one O
admiration for the greatness Of his soul
and the other of COMMUNICATION for thl
needs of his body. r
, Butsso it has been in all department.
of noble work, Some of the mightes
have been hardly bestead. Olive
, Goldsmith had such big patch on til,
coat over his left breast that when Ii,
: went anywhere he kept his hat in Iii
! hand closely pressed over the patch
, The world renowned Bishop Asbury hal
salary of $64 year. Painters are no
the only ones who have endured the lacl
, of appreciation. Let men of wealth tak'
, under their patronage the suffering mer
, of. art, They lift no complaint; they
! make no strike for higher wages. Blu
) with o lzeenness of nervous organization
, which almost always characterizes gen
J ius, these artists. suffer more than AM
ono but God can realize, There need
, to he q. concerted effort for TIN
suffering artists of America no
sentimental discourse about what we ow,
! to artists, but contracts that will Civ,
= them livelihood; for am in full sym
= pathy with the Christian farmer, wh'
i was very busy gathering his fall apples
. and some one asked him to pray for
: poor family, the father of which hat
> broken his leg; and the busy farmer said
> II cannot stop now to pray, but you cal
= go down into the cellar and get SOM
. corned beef, and butter, and eggs ant
} potatoes; that is all / can do now.
t Artists may, wish for our prayers
> h but they also want practical he'll
Z from men who can give them work
!, You have heard scores of sermons for al
: other kinds of suffering men and women
@ but think this is the first sermon eve
!. preached that made plea for the suffer
s ing men and women of American art
o Their work is more true to nature an
o life than any of the masterpieces tina
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