The morning call., 1893-03-16
EXTREMES IN ART.
They Are Seen in the Loan
Exhibit.
Marie Evelyn Contrasts the Zolaesque
With the Turneresque in
the Collection.

1t is remarkable that so few people have
seized the opportunities of pleasure and
study of art afforded by the loan~exhibition
at 116 Post street.
The very names on the catalogue ought
TO draw crowded houses There is Mum
kacsy, whose pictures have toured about
the world and made almost as much sensa-
tiOn as the divine Sarah herself. 1t is some
thing to be able 10 boast OF having seen a
genuine work from the brush that painted
Christ Before Plate"
Verestchagin-every one has heard of
him, though il wants certain amount of
courage TO pronounce his name. People
who have seen collections of his works in
Europe shudder when they recall his dra-
matte and awful realism.
But the Art Loan Exhibition offers
chance of becoming gradually acquainted
with this Z0la among artists. He Is repre-
sented by three eanvases, and not one of
them is sanguinaTy, not one displays a
gaping wound.
For lovers of sensation, however. "the
blowing of the Sepoys from the guns" gives
abundant promise of carnage-the wretch
ed, wrthng Sepoys, tied to the cannOns'
mouths. their cruelty recOiling on their
own heads; the stern immutable dsci-
pline of the soldiers, who are not individu-
ais but only parts of vast machine of war
fare.
Verestchagn has chosen war in It's vari-
Gus phases Tor displaying his modern real
ism. and he is ''all that there is of the most
modern" as the French say.
What contrast to turn from this Russian
master 10 the Reynolds (47. This picture
represents such different phase of art--a
phase OF poetry and idealism. Every one
knows that 1t was from Reynolds that
Burke drew the IDEAS and inspiration for
his Thoughts on the Sublime and BeRuti-
full"
Il don't like IT," was a criticism that
more than nne spectator passed Yesterday
on The Princess Adelaide" of Reynolds
Alas, the modern eye is too often yitiated
by tricky efforts in brilliant and crude
colors! Even lovers of art, to whom the
works OF painters, such rs Eandyke or
Rembrandt are but names. might think the
subdued tones OF Reynolds mon otonOus at
first. But The beauty is OF kind that grows
Another notable contrast to the senti-
ment of the Nerestchagin is the one
afforded by the picture near it. Loves
Token" (4S)-a quaint, Old-fashiOned garden,
where flowers and vegetables grow to-
gether IN picturesque confusion.
The scene must be laid somew here In The
Old World-Normand perhaps, or a vii
lage on the Rhine. for the quaint homes,
crossed with wooden beams, belong 10
localities where few hundred years, more
or less, are Of very little Importance.
The tigeriSh SepOyS about to become food
for binds OF prey and the girl reading love
letter in garden where a poet might
dream-could any more dramatic contrast
be- presented in thtater?
But 1t would take 4 volume to describe
all the attractions in the art loan exhibit
tion. There are just enough pictures for a
busy person TO do" comfortably in one
afternoon, and there are enough good ones
to tempt real lovers OF art to buy season
ticket in order so know them better.
So many schools are represented that the
exhibition becomes sort of "multum in
parvo." There is Sunlight on the Riviera" I"
by Claude Moned. ''the leader Of the mod
ern French school OF impTessionists Some
Of us don't even know what an impress
sionist is. Every one knows after seeing
that picture.
Some OF US, however, are quite well aware
that our own Keith is an impressionist
There are not few of the latter people
who gaze long enough upon the Sunlight
effect on the Riviera" to make a mental
photograph of II. Then they go away and
give their attention to Keith's In the
Woods"
These French fellows are very clever.
but give me our impressiouists every time"
observed one man whom a friend rndey
awakened from day dream in front Of
keth's picture.
Individually speaking, the man was right
IN preferrng the California i'm pressionIst.
ne itdu EGLuHl1 DteH So Carried AWAY DX
the influence OF the painting as TO forget his
surroundings and literally imagine himself
''ln the woods"
In addition to the most modern in paint
ing, there are also pictures by masters that
may justly be considered old"
Even people who read Russian novels
generally have a rather vague idea of what
an ''kon" is, beyond the fact that the Greek
word Is in some way connected with the
hernine's devotioDs.
Visitors TO the Art Loan Association have
an opportunity Of seeing genuine ''ikOp,"
one of the sacred pictures SO much priced
Ia Russian households.
Yesterday evening there was a particu-
| larly good promenade concert, in addition
to the attraction of the pictures. Mrs. Mar
tin Schultz sang "Merrily / ROAM" by
Schlelforth, in her usual finished style Mr..
Rowland was good deal applauded for his
Once" by Hervey.
Fourteen members OF the Loring Club
delighted the audience by rendering ad-
mlrablv some vocal selections. Including a
march by Becker and The Wanderers S
n ght Song by Lenzy The following are
the gentlemen who so kindly gave their
services: James II. Graham, Ed Lott,
George st. J. Bremner. j. Il. Morrssey, c.
a. Howiand. ID. W; Loring: William Keeley,
L. J.. Hueter, A. Helke. w. j. Mackay, W.
c. Stadtfeld, Charles Dickman, William
Nielsen, L. l.. Dobbs
Although the rooms were not crowded
Yesterday evening good many visitors
were present and great satisfaction was ex-
| pressed. both with the pictures and with the
way in which the lighting was arranged.
No one should lose an opportunity OF visit
ing the art loan exhibition, for, to quote
from Patience, Such an opportunity may
not occur again. MARIE EVELYN.
New Guinea is extremely rich in plants,
the number Of species discovered in the
sixty-fve years since Lesson brought home