Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-02
ART NOTES.

lHe CdCTdIueHlO SCHOOL OF DeSlSu mas 81
far prospered that an additional instructor
in drawing has been added in this month
Correggio's "San Giavonni," cited in the
biographies and catalogues as having beer
in a church and subsequently lost, is
thought to have been found. A gentleman
bought the picture lately for very trihing
sum from poor family in the town Of
Correggio, and after submitting it to ex-
perts, it has been pronounced the real
thing, picture of great yigor and spon-
taniety, and in Correggio's best style.
Marie Bashkirtseff has left the follow
ing description of Bastien-Lepage in her
journal. 1t was their first meeting, but
they afterward became close friends and
died about the same time: ''He is very
small, very fair, wears his hair la Bre-
tonne (cut square across the forehead), has a
retroatsse nose and the head of youth. l was
altogether taken aback. j adore his paint
ing, but it is impossible to regard him with
the respect due to a master. You want to
treat him as comrade, and his paintings
are there to fill you with admiration, as
tonishment and envy. He has the air of a
good, little man, who is very we'll satisfied
with himself-this Bastien."
ale has gray eyes, the exquisite charm of
which vulgar souls cannot be expected to
appreciate" she wrote when he was dying.
The impression made upon the talented
young Russian artist, Marie Bashkirtsef,
by the "Joan of Arc" of Bastien-L Lepage
now in the Boston Museum of Art, was
that the figure is sublime. She found it
difficult to restrain her tears. SIT is admira-
ble-the head thrown back, the strained at
into the future-clear, wonderful eyes. The
countenance produces striking effect; it
is that of the peasant, the daughter of the
soil, startled and panied by her vision.
The orchard surrounding the house in the
background is natures self; but there is a
something-in word, the prospective of
it is not good it seems to crowd forward
on the view, and spoils the effect of the
figure"
SIN the absolute dearth of pictures of
the highest class, the most important COM
position at the Grosvenor Gallery" says
the London Saturday RerietC, sis perhaps
Mr.. Briton Riyieres 'Prometheus,' al
though this is small canvas, and not so
well executed as it is sconceiyed. In blue
of moonlight, the moon her
self unseen, nude figure falls pendent
over the edge of cliff of rocks, which de-
scend abruptly to the sea. A few golden
stars are out, and by their glimmer we see,
Just over the shoulders of the Titan, the vul-
ture sleeping, with ruffled plumage, gorged
with its horrid feast Mr.. Rivieres PRO
is not tragic enough. If this
figure were more vague, more terrible, less
in the shape of a well-fed model that sits
for conscientious naked men, it would be
better; but, such as it is, we recognize the
ine intention of the work, and greet it as
the sole contribution to imaginative art at
his years Grosvenor."
The landscape art of this country at the
present time too often suggests a poverty
of material, and shows that the artist has
his function. A vigorous
md effective realistic treatment is often |
in setting forth subjects that pos
'ess no characteristics which should at all |
them to the artists regard. OIL
.he many landscapes annually displayed |
N our exhibitions, the fine, choice and /
graceful treatment of subject, which,
with a true artist, constitute |
he fundamental part of his art, are |
.arely met with. 1t could, indeed, hardly
De otherwise uuder the conditions that |
low environ the painter in America;
or our civilization has reached a stage |
n which the beautiful is little under |
tood or cared for. The familiar and ha-
,itual sight of what is ugly inevitably |
induces an insensitiveness to ugliness and |
With a naon1e 81 littla used nc wa are tn the |
light of what is beautiful and graceful in
,ur surroundings, the finer artistic instincts
lave little opportunity to develop.
Great changes in ideas must take place
,efore we shall generally appreciate the
,etter functions of art, and recognize the |
piritual and material conditions which
avor its development. We are not yet, as
people, conscious of what we lack. The
and rapidly spreading interest
nd activity in what passes for art
re regarded as indications that the
inc arts are fourishing among us.
20 skill in depicting even the grandest
Genes viii suffice for art. 1t is the
rtist's business to lay hold of and to
resent a kind of beauty which does
lot exist In mere natural scenery
eauty which is the result of human inhu-
nee. The human element is essential
IF the impressions received from the many
hases of beauty in landscape, those are
he most satisfying and the most endur-
ngly pleasant which, in one way or an
ther, exhibit the marks of human pres
nee, and bespeak human energy acting
a sympathy with nature.-Noven,beT At
rnfie