The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-28
ABOUT ART.
Colonel Fairman's Lecture at
Hammond Hall.
The Boys Club" Ball-Entertainments, Meet
ings and Other Gatherings For Social
or Political Purposes.

One Of the most intensely interesting
lectures of the season WAS given last night
at Hammond Hall by Col James Fairman,
the well known landscape and marine
painter, who has been soiourning in Salt
Lake during the past week.
The lecturer gave an analysis of the
scope OF expression in the different arts
assuming the following order of excel
lence: Music, poetry, painting, sculpture
and architecture, rating histrionic art as a
mlngling OF poetry in text, sculpture in
pose and music in intellection. He de-
clared the art OF earth to be a mere proph-
ecy and suggestion Of what man would be
In a future state, and claimed that
Inc nne arts in their ministry
are In reality a universal language, and
that sentiment is the dominant quality in
true art The sculpture of the Greeks was
never dramatic, SIS they avoided giving ex-
preston. and with the study of the drama
and anatomy our modern sculptors should
excel This branch takes its highest form
In the monumental, but George Washing
ton on dray horse with arm uncomforta-
bly, extended, is not to be taken as a model
While in painting, light and shade necessi-
tate color, all attempts to color works of
the sculptor have failed. The ancient ar
lists had no colors, and our modern chem
lists have done much for painting This
branch OF the arts differs from the others
In that all Is given at q stroke and but a
moment Of time is represented, and in this
element picture is necessarily shorter
than poem or a novel, but even poetry
takes refuge in human figures
In considering music, the speaker main
tanned that IL operates directly on the emo
tlOns and is not limited by intellectual
action. 1t is the highest form of art. and
there are conceptions which can never be
placed on the staff. This is the one art
which we are assured will survive this
state Of existence.
The stage, the platform and the drama
were all reviewed, ana the conventional
ties OF the modern theater as representing
art were repudiated. The strong doses
to which the public was subjected
were apt TO produce morbid effect.
or modern literature the colonel thoupht
that the French school had proven a dire
calamity and verltable disease to the
emotions. We do not want shadow for
shadows sake but for the sake of light
The great art of the student NOWADAYS is
TO know what not to read. Even Thomas
Moore wished that his own daughters
might not read his poems.
A great musician can play a picture and
great painter can paint song.
The real poets, painters and actors, as
well as noVelists, were briefly considered
, and their excellence and defects pointed
but.
AASsh FAOGSdub anu feature
Of the evening was the question box,n out
of which much valuable information as TO
the great modern artists, writers and act
ors was drawn. Salvini and Genevive
Ward were pronounced the greatest of
living actors, and striking comparisons
were drawn between Booth and Fechter.
the one being Of tue naturalistic and the
other Of the artificial school, The great
want Of the stage is the romantic drama
real human life, exalted enough to lift us
to a higher plane.
While we look at all art as perishable
the time will come when the great artist
will take 1t up and in heaven it will be
awakened to new beauties which the hu-
man eye cannot see or our limited senses
comprehend.
The address was listened to with marked
attention, for the speaker used only clear
Anglo-SsXon and his manner was most en-
PERTAINING. The study of art has told upon
INN, Tor ne shows Its improving and elevat-
ing effect in action and thought as well.
Colonel Fairman is of Scotch origin and
came to this country in his infancy. With
the usual struggles of plebian he worked
his way TO scholarship and profess
sional eminence and in the late
var was commander of the
Ninety-sixth New York Volunteers
he was appointed lecturer of fine art and
social science at Olivet college and has been
active in moral reforms. Many years of
his life have been spent abroad and he
LOOKS on the up grade though sixty-seyen
years have crossed mis- path. This is his
first trip to the west and he's studying this
region with an artists eye.
He has with him twelve paintings now
on exhibition at Dinwoodey's. large rooms.
including the following subjects: Jerusa
lem, Melrose Abbey, Shakespeare Cliff
Sunset at Corsica, A Wet Sheet and Flow.
ing Sea, Eden's Isle Loeb Catrine, Twi-
light on the Hudson, Autumnal Robes of
New England, Plains of Sharon, Cliffs of
Etratat, and the Storm of the Pier at
Dover
These may be seen during the next sue
oeeding week.