The Washington times., 1895-03-31

mysterious, and magnetic eyes, With
this the speaker closed her own ewes. and
appeared to have gone back 10 Mount Olivet
to gaze upon her ideal.
Mr.. Nc Donald: II think the average
conception of Christ is the conception OF
somebody else. 1 don't think that any
artist in the whole world has an original
conception OF the head of Christ IL he,
or she, has, ii has not been put on canvass
or in stone. In my mind, the conceptions
have all been over refined. and so no one
has painted the ideal OF Joe Jefferson, in
which the test was: 'Delicacy without
weakness
Were to paint Him. would make Him
of the Jewish type. l would give HIM gray
eyes and brown hair. How would | ar
range the hair? After the fashion in vogue
l would not picture Him as a crank wearing
long hair. when it was not the fashion or
prevailing style"
Mr. Max Weyl: '.If 1 were TO paint Him
1 would make Him a perfect type of the
Orientals / know he is painted with
brown hair, but the 0Tientals generally
have dark hair and eyes. 1 see no reason
why there should be an exception in the
case of the SAVIOR
Miss Grace Lincoln Temple. OF Boston,
II have no well defined conception of the
face of Christ. Certainly none of the So
called religious paintings presents a COM
plete conception tO ME. / believe that the
hair should be golden and the eyes blue"
Miss Bruff: Il have never given the
subject a thought, and l therefore can't
give you an idea of what a painting should
be to convey the truth Of the original
An artist at Veerhoff's said: My idea
of the face is that of a refined Nazarene
Of course, | would not give him the char
acteriStic Semitic nose / don't be-
Iieve in the Plockhurst conception as YOU
see it in His entry into Jerusalem. Yet
hat is fine picture. Plockhurst
PAINTS him with light brown hair and eyes.
My idea is a refined and intellectual face,
with dark hair and large dark eyes"
AS WE FEEL, WE SEE
In Mr.. Fishers studio an attentive lis
tener to the conversation said: THE
difficulty in any individual getting a con-
ception, mean a definite, lasting one,
is because we are all more orIess emotional.
When we are sad we think of His face as
sad. When we weep we see Him through
our tears. When we are joyful His face
changes also. This is not an original
idea. 1 have read it somewhere, but it
Will i'll some sense explain the mystery
of the subject. I suppose you caught
the application of what Mr.. Fisher said
| just Maybe I am an ariStocrat,
| and / would paint Him as Prince of the
House of David,
| Mr.. Walter Paris said: ''I think OF
| Him and typify Him as essentially of the
| Orientals. He is usually represented as
! exhibiting the cast of features of the people
| to whom His painters belong, as the Bel
! gian, the Italian, or Dutch artists. IL
| were to paint Him il would be as an Arab
| or a Nazarene. Certainly l would not
| give Him blue eyes. l would give Him
| dark hair, dark eyes, and a sallow
| complexion, a Mohammedan of the highest
| cast l would give Him a beard, and
| hair flowing over His shoulders, as is the
| characteristic OF Eastern types, and
would give an aquiline cast tO-the nose.
| 1t is a long distance artiStically, es-
| theticaliy, and intellectually from the
! golden-curled little philosopher of the
| park to a street gamn.
| On the way home The Times stopped a
| colored youth who was carrying cab
bage on his head as a Cornthian column
| carries acanthus leaves. The black prince
| OF the pavement was whistling the Man
| Without preamble he was interrOgated
| as to his idea of the face of Christ, and he
| answered without hes u ton:
| "I didn't know He had a face, sir j
| thought He was God"
! The Pantheist Immediately resumed the
music where he left off and departed.
A colored nurse stopped long enough to
| hear the Interrogation, and said as she
| moved away: II don't meddle with white
| folks business -