The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-12-11
INDUSTRIAL ART.

The lesson OF the Worlds fair was indus
trial art The art that America needs
today most Is not the lank lily and the big
sunfiowcr craze; not the soiled art Of nude
statues and nude verses, but 1t Is industrial
art, backed by old-fashioned industrial en-
ergy. The average art whooper and sput~
terer is very useless person; they are the
sort that mistake poetasters for poets.
sentimsntalism for feeling. frenzy for
fancy. the shine OF the rotten maekerei for
the CLEAN of living light. The working
world cares for Bobby Burns, true bard, but
the working world has no use for aesthetics
In ar. and poetry who dress and work fan
tastically. Webster spoke to human
ity because he thought for the world of
cettcn. coal and corn, of banks and bull
lion. of ships and stocks. but the dude
and snob In art or literature speaks only
for o silly caste or Clique In club or
on corner. The diIlstanie prates
about art as the tramp eloeu,ion,st
aftiiets every village. When they
are sincere they are only silly. and
when they are sensible they have only
flehed something they can not construe. a
eosored worsted from one writer. and red
rag from another; IL is = sort OF boarding
house hash of hleatant commonplace.
the new Is not true: the true is not new.
To cultivate q sense ofthe beautiful there
II no danger 80 long a. the wild violet
waves in tender gloom" SO long a. the
siars shine. the mountains rise in purple
glory with the sun. that our boys and girls
will lack due sensibisi;y 20 the beautiful.
The silly oackIer about art would
measure love in quart cup. weigh IL in =
greeer's scales, disseet = beautiful dead
woman TO solve the secret of her beauty;
he Is the cold -blooded. esotistiesl anaiys,
OF art and beauty: no does not drink in
the spirit Of beauty In nature and men
be disseets Il: he stares a. the sun and a.
the human soul with the eve and aspiration
OF . surgeon sure 10 love a CORPSE
with desire 90 dlsseet H. The
boys can learn 90 relish Shsksspeare
Byron and Burns without learning 90 rant
about art or rave about beauty. Just a. q
child revsls IN the sunlight without know
ing anything about the solar spectrum.
They can take IN the flowers, the trees.
the whisper Of she winds: can learn TO
love beautiful and splrsted men and women
without wasting q moment over the aa,u.
lieut. analysts of art aud beauty by class
Of mooa-eysd saohs, Who are as disgust
ing as are all ether ehAfiassns aud false
prophets OF the sacred things ia the
world. The working world pr-Ees great
poet or writer. snd ys, the working world
feels that IL could spare al lis great artists
better than {, eoald ore Of is great
workers. The world eoald better spArs
Angelo. Raphael and Ia Vlael than Is
could Luther. CsonxeIl. FrAaglin. Wash
ingtnn, Hamilton OF Liaealr.
Tae hem foundation Of great FREE state.
abe sdvaoesEaeat of religious io,sraaee.
10 worth ell tie hsAat3!al spIss. that ever
pierced tie italian sky. All tha beautiful
faces ana foEEas taAs ever bseomsa forth
ike aowets irogn TIE fFvscoss &c convent
walls and cathedral csa.lnrs. The indus.
trial art and eaesEy tass eseate, comfort.
abe and cheap dwellings, Ter tbs Geoens
and haFd-seFk.ng poor. drains clsse-.
sissns sssssss. kssps wafer pare, isea