The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-02-17
ART AND ARTISTS.
THE POET-PAINTERS ARE TO HAVE
THEIR DAY.
Effect of the TEACHINGS of the Pm.
lie SchooIs-In the Local Studios
General Notes.

| Although there have been times in
history when art has been higher and
deeper than it is at present, there
| never was a time when it received such
! universal attention. Art in other per-
I iods has been localized. England. Hol-
| land and Italy have had their brilliant
eras in which they have alternately LED.
but now, with art schools in every
! land, and art literature widely dissem-
! mated, there is such universal under
standing of it's principles that art
| knowledge is spread out thinly over all
creation. Printing in co1orS has also
| multiplied good pictures to such an ex-
| tent that works that were formerly in
| precious scarcity are now distributed
in every home, and children play with
fine reproductions of masterpieces that
at one time could only be viewed in
the great galleries of Europe The fast
mail and the big Sunday newspapers
| are also doing their work in this direc-
ton, until there is now a general I'm
Outstanding of contemporary art that
never before obtained in the worlds
history. In fact, art is now coSmopOli-
tan. A triumph in Paris is now imme-
diately and simultaneously realized in
San francisco, Melbourne and St
Petersburg. Therefore, the time has
gone by for local art greatness and it
is the worlds art or nothing that must
develop.
AS result the art that is coming
| over the world of today is difficult be-
yond words. It is not to be learned
| by any college course, such as a few
ct oicI,
| the Beaux Arts, nor yet by a suDer-
| fetal study of nature; although some
thing of both are necessary in prepara-
| ton 1t is an art that IS the outcome
of a widespread knowledge of the SUI
perficial elements of painting. a recoil
| from dealing with external subjects
/ The mere ability to portray the out
! ward semblance of things is now of lit
| tie importance. Multitudes have
learned to do it and found it compare
lively easy. In order to do better
things, that much knowledge is a nee
essity; but it is only the preparatory
course and it commands no special ad-
miration.
Even a refinement in painting the
external attributes of nature is not suf-
fcient. The delicate perfection of Mes
sonier, the faultleSs drawing and
delicious textures of Bougereau, the
pomp of color of Hans Maklrt, the
elaboration of knowledge and tech
| nique of Gerome-none of these high
qualifications satisfy. They are
all exoteric and it is the esoteric that
is demanded. The poet-painters who
deal with the subtle inner whisperings
of nature are to have their day, for
at last there are people enough who.
understand the highest attributes Of
art to understand and appreciate
them. Some such artists have lived
and painted and died obscurely, but
in the future there is promise of
better fate for others of their class.
The artists of the future must prove
their power to picture such subjects
or step out Of the ranks. When the
wheat is separated from the tares,
what burning of weeds there will
! be!
Artists who have lived here for
years note with much pleasure the in
creased regard for art which the