Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-10-17


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1a1e Feai ALI sssai, ls1st a. We have had
40 reeast Ga iaos-oass ..oout geography
staa ASTRONOMY. Dat = ~ ca ter reso4u-
Ion az a-ts us taan the compass.
sae prAatans press. anu e4eetrieity have
gwen Us, 100 oakse are discoveries
IA higher reSllaa. esea ia the realm
al tae na<sd. Behold, We KNOW not
" hat We shall be-
The ltw "a nature aud art IL one
Law. Ali great arIlsss have been
great students vi nature, aud learned
tnexr lessons % her. Michael Anselo's
PICTURES are soulful, full oi the thought
he has breathed Into them They are
tha result OF the closest study vi na-
tare. CASTELAR, says that Michael
Angelo WAS 80 des.rOsIs of knowing
anatomy that he would throw him
selt on "A dead body like hycna. He
wanted TO know man as mans creat or
knows him. An artist can not free
himself from God; he must be a work
er with God. which is nature.
Every artist knows that he only
carries ous a thought that is above
and beyond him. In studying such
pictures has The Cleaners we feel the
reality OF the life OF the peasant
through and through 1t is so soul
ful, so real, that we feel IL instructive
iy. The artist puts the spirit oi the
women into his own soul.
THE true artist can only point to
that which his inner soul sees, but
can not paint, and he Will inspire
others 10 see it, and thus all are led
up by art. II becomes prophecy. 1t
suggests. hints as true and real, that
which science comes after and works
out. Giotte painted the world round
oEs tower in Florence two hundred
an1 fifty years before Calico was
imprisoned for saying it was round.
Galilco had studied that picture every
day OF his life, and at last science
transmitted into words what was an
overflow OF the divine mind into the
mind of the artist. Art is not only
sure prophecy OF truth, but a broad
lesson OF brotherhood-all under the
fatherhood OF God. True art Is the
best religious teaching. That Is one
reason why think 1T would be a pity
90 have the Worlds Fair closed on
Sunday. Immediate and prolonged
applause.)
II feel that could drop on my knees
In prayer as devoutly before Corliss
engine, or a Hoes printing press, rs
before any altar i'm the world. This
art germ is divinely planted in man
from the beginning. We can learn
many lessons from the poetry. the
myths. the sculpture, the paintings
OF the past ages. We are living over
the age OF Pericles, written larger.
We are only manifesting the reality
pf all ages in our own way. Again
the idea OF divine womanhood and
motherhood. as exhibited in the paint
lngs. 'Our Lady OF the immaculate
Conception and sOur Lady OF the
Assumption is taking possession OF
the minds and souls OF men and wo.
men all over the world. We are lust
coming 10 perceive the soul OF these
wonderful works and read the mean
ing OF these ages of wonderous art.
/ wish I could utter the words TO
tell OF the idea OF the new coming Of
the Lord which I see foretold i'm the
art of the past. All old ideals shall
reappear again in new form live again,
clothed upon by the new though-s s
born of the civilization OF these latter
ages OF the discoveries OF science. OF
the old thoughts about womanhood,
wifehood, motherhood. for this age is
the most wonderful the world ever
saw.
In human society, oracles. myths,
plastic arts, sculpture. aud painting,
are the unfolded fragments OF the
crowning work OF creation, the men
and women that are 10 be.
Wonderful i'm beauty, power and maj
cstv was the divf-rc woman Athena. oi
tho Creek. anishe was as rea' TO then
"a any passing event of Our lives. The
Greeks made her the founder OF their
highest court. and our courthouses
stu Dear nt'T tlut--t NhNH 1~e'f~'
OF Justice In her hands
Iderlism and realism are much Ike
tho great panoramas that we iind IN
our cities, where YOU can't tell where
| the real carts and horses leave oil
and the pictures begin. do not know
what idearism in art IL; l do not Know
what realism is. But whatever wakes
up a balleluiah in our own souls Is
/ +roe art. Very often. what we term
| ideals are reals that have made some
| ieatfuer impression on the mind ol
the artist, they are memories which he
haa mt into living embodyments-
Buf o, farlmore Importance than to
rsaii,a which Ia idealism and which
- art. ia the right application OF all
| art TO noble themes. and TO know
bo,x 70 build best with the materials
.sven us to deal with. In art, there
are no themes so grand a. those which
/ a given 10 every one oil rs, whether
/ ,wa 10 idealist, realist. or impressions
| set. that Ia the application OF the high
est art To supplement nature in the
making OF the noblest life, that the
materials given us by nature will en-
1 able ts TO make
Mrs. Ellen ". Mitchell said that
Wat Is wanted above all In life. liter.
atnre and art Is 70 find fresh meaning
/ in common things. Every thing, nc
matter how common II II. can be lift
/ al "a beauty when looked at through
/ love.
n X the office OF art TO supplement
/ ,as defects OF nature. and 70 awakeT
/ man to a consciousness OF his destiny
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