Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-30
ART AND ARTISTS

A Birmingham. England collection
of 500 examples of David Cox, who was a
native Of thGs city, is shown in the art
gallery.
One of the portraits of Prince Bismarck,
painted by Franz Won Lenbach, is now
shown at the International Art Gallery in
Fifth avenue, opposite the Windsor Hotel.
1t was brought over by Mr.. William
Schaus
At Cahors, France, series of frescoes in
good preservation has been found in the
roof of the cupola OF the cathedral. They
represent st. Stephen being stoned to
death, with a circle of eight prophets about
the central figure.
\ collection of placards and colored
bills was shown at the Grolier Club from
the 9TH to the 10th of November, in New
York. The collecting of such curiosities
| has been carried to the utmost limits of
hobby by IA. Cheret in France.
The Graphic Society, of London, is IN
eItremissand will soon cease to exist. The
reasons given for its death are the growth
of societies not strictly limited to artists,
the number of deaths of members and the
extent to which artists have abandoned
London owing to its murky atmosphere,
which interferes with work.
w. J. Stillman warns collectors of Greek
vases that Greek dealer in antiquities is
buying up the vases that have been found
| in Italy, at Nola, and other sites of Greco
| Italian cities. He infers that they will be
sold from Athens as the product of exca-
vations in old Greece, such finds bringing
a very much larger price than pottery dis
covered elsewhere.
A bewildered artist is quoted in the
Boston Post as writing thus, after seeing
some pictures by the latest school of French
impressionists. called pieia-oTistes or
lentit'iste, according to the view of the
speaker. Plein-airiste is a comparatively
respectful designation, meauing that such
painters attempt to paint things under the
direct light Of day, not by the light cast
into studios. LeatitiSte refers to the at
tempt to decompose sunlight into the pris-
matte colors. and to use those colors in sep
arate dabs side by side, leaving it to the
eye, placed at proper distance, to recon-
| pose the colors into the proper hues.
! LsEtiihste refers to the dabs Of color about
the size of lentil seeds. The bewildered
artist says: "After somewhat long So
journ this autumn at place where many
| Boston artists congregate, | have returned,
astonished and bewildered at the teach
ings OF the teachers and at the work of
the workers. A new fashion has sprung
up, emanating, suppose, from the widest
I and most visionary Of impressionists, and
demanding brilliancy OF color in com.
parison with which the rainbow and the
peacock's tail are dull and dark. Herbage
is painted a brilliant yellow, foliage a
vivid purple, tree trunks sky blue-no Sec
ondaries or tertiaries, but everything, sky,
distance, middle distance, and foreground,
all painted with primary colors, abso-
| lutely untrue to nature and ridiculous"
And he adds: "Chings have gone so far
that COWS are painted a brilliant purple"
The Athenian Society of Archaeology
is excavating the two temples nine miles
northeast of Marathon ascribed to the god
dess Themis, but later thought to be the
remains of an ancient and less old temple
of Nemesis. The older was destroyed by
the Persians under Xerxes, and after their
repulse Phidias is said to have carved
statue of the goddess from a block of
marble brought from Paros by the Persians
to use as a memorial of their victory. The
! British Museum has fragment of a statue
|
site. The Athenians have found horse
carved in stone and three female with one
| male head, together with other fragments
of statues. They propose to uncover the
Sacred Way, which ran from the larger
and later temple to the sea. The place
was called Rhamnus in ancient times and
Ovrio Kostro during the domination of
the Italians in the Middle Ages. The dis
coyery of a very beautiful statue of Themis
| has substantiated the truth of the old
opinion that the temple or temples were
dedicated to her, but making it likely that
| Nemesis was worshiped there also. Spir-
idion Lambros writes to Athen9um: 'sThe
statue of Themis is one of the loveliest in
the Central Museum. 1t is go meters
high. The inspiration of true Attic art
characterizes the beautifully y-draped limbs
OF the figure. The hand are wanting.
The pedestal names the artist, hitherto
| unknown Charidemos of Rhamnus.n The
statue OF young man with breast bare. a
| portrait Of beautiful workmanship, about
one metre high, was discovered, together
with larger but poorer statue of priest
ess named Aristonoe. These statues were
found in the smaller temple along with
thirteen coins of Roman Emperors. The
shoulder of statue of Nemesis carved in
Parian marble was discovered in the
larger temple. Other figures belonging to
the pedestal are in the Athens Museum
with the horse already mentioned. They
are in high relief and resemble the fgur-
! ines in terra Gotta found at Tanagra and
i elsewhere.