The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-12-04

Time Afternoon tea, Friday, Nov
embeT %.
Mrs. BIuEe And none Of you saw
the pictures on the opening night:
Why / thought Fedora and myself
the Only dereIicts.
Mrs. .HuHtOn.-Well what is the
use of going? / have my time filled
already with church and social du-
ties. Why should 1 dawdle two
hours in an art gallery when / know
not the first thing about Art?
really should like to know why you
are gOing-if you are.
Miss P0Yet-Why, to see what
the lion ha- done, of course.
Miss MiHOr.-I am going chiefly to
see Irma's picture. / have scarcely
seen her for the past month-she has
been so busy.
Mrs. Pettee.-Im going because
there is a hOrrid spot on the paper in
our parlOr, and | want to buy a picture
that will fit and harmonic.
The OtherS.-Fit and harmonic!
o, you Philistine!
Hrs Pettee.-I know it. But l
might as well buy my picture there
as anywhere. Encourage home talent,
/ say. (She sips tea calmIy.)
Mrs. Stanton Are you exhibiting,
Miss Pallet?
Mss PaILet.-NO, am new com
er. Besides, / am diffideut. But /
shall go TO get the calibre of your
artists.
Mrs. BLdEe.-FOr my part, / go
to get what / can from the pictures.
l am painfully ignorant
Cries Of Oh, Mrs. BlakeJ
but learn something In every eX-
hibitiOn, and / am member of the
League.
Miss lIiBOr.-O Mrs. Blake, won't
you tell us hOJC you learn something?
/ suppose the Art League j. not mere
ly to exact a semi-annual creation for
those who can express themselves
in paint and plaster. L suppose it
vaguely aspires To spread the knOwl-
edge of Art in this community. We
are Ignorant enough of it, | am sure.
Why couldn't some of the artists have
had for their contribution the creation
of an intelligent public? They might
have worked up a series of popular
articles, telling us the right way to
see pictures
Miss PdUet.-One reason is because
there il no short cut. 1t is the study
of pictures themselves that brings
this knowledge of them.
Hiss MinOr-But how do you study
a picture? Can we not know any
marks of difference between good and
bad painting? / have stood dumbly
before pictures and lOnged ineXpressi
bly, to know why some had been
awarded priZes and others not.
Mrs. Blake Il have followed some
simple rules for myself, Miss Minor,
and with Miss Isabella's assistance L
will tell you what L have done.
AU Yes, Mrs. Blake. Do, do.
Will you be so kind?
Mrs. Blake First, / look at the
hand work cOlOring, drawing, paint
ing. If they are bah, the picture will
be worthless. As we enter gallery,
we are caressed by color. The eye
naturally SEES the bright colors first,
but l distrust them. So few artists
have been "colorists" Young artists,
/ find, reveI in warmth. Older ones
are wiser and know that the low tones
can be more successfully blended.
Miss PdUet-EXcuse me, Aunt
Mary, l can aid Herr Fernau's
testimony to that. He advised me TO
paint au umn splendOr with autumn
skies beclOuded.
Mrs. BIdEC.-I wish, Fedora, that
you would talk for me.
piss PaUet.-No, 1 can only inter
Iupt.
Mrs. BIdEe.-To proceed, then, /
have found that reserve in color often
means gain in perspective, atmosphere
and feeling.
Mrs StdHtOH.-But would you con
denim all high cOlOring? Surely there
are blue sky, red leaves, yellow trees
and green grass often under blazing
sun. Why not paint them?
Mrs BldEe-Yes, if we can. Art
lists succeed more easily in other
lines. y quiet thing more often, TO
my mind, shows the sentiment it Is
meant TO show. Atmosphere makes
such havoc with colOTs, unless we
understand atmospheric effects. Re
member that objects, trees for in
stance, blue and lose tone as they re-
cede, the two fold atmospheric effect,
and the gray ish blue is truer to nature
than the green tree in miniature.
Mss PaTIet-The BlOttisque style
is Ru~kiu'- name for it.
Mrs Pettee Nevertheless, some of
the impressionist things are just love
~ for a lavender and white room.
Miss Minor, Aside L should
think so! And for any room.
Mrs. Blake Besides atmospheric
effects, we must consider tone Col
Ors have different values, or tones. A
green tree here, ana one half mile
distant-are they the same? In bright