The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-07
TALK ON FRENCH Art
Miss Kingsley Tells the
Story Of the Ro-
mantiCists.
coRoT, ROUSSEAU; TloYoN. AND DIAz
Miss Edge Entertained the.
Class - Who Was
There.

There.
MISS kingsley, the daughter of Mr..
Charies Kingsley, delivered the first of
a series of FIVE lectures yesterday after
noon at the residence of Miss Edge, No.
% wayne street. The subject of her
lecture was French Art. Miss Kings
iey gave a description Of the beginning
OF what was called the "Barbizan
scnool.' She said before the develop
lnent OF this school the Classics had
painted nothing but what they called
Greek subjects. They pSinted landscapes
as they thought landscapes ought to be,
not as they were. They made unreal
and unnatural people. The R~omanticists
made life live; real people appeared on
tnelr canvasses. Bitter was the war be-
tween the -Romantieists and the Classics.
The -Romantieists were Justified" said
Miss Kingsley, Sin their war against
seulptural paintings. Their cry, Who
VIII deliver us from the Greeks?' while
today it seems barbarous was raised
only against the false Greeks. In their
war against this false painting the
R~omanticists went to extremes. The
Classics had painted perfect beings, as
they conceived them; the Romanticists
painted people as they were, real, living
beings. In their revolution nothing was
too mean or hideous to he painted. The
most hideous person was painted be-
cause he showed character
among these Romanticists Eugene de
la Croix stands forth. He was a poet
and c~oiorist. Few have gone 5. deep
into the harmony OIL color as he. To
my min his supreme picture is what
he has called The last photograph OF
this side
Whlle this war was raging an equally
surprising revolution was taking place
in landscape painting. The Classics had
considered the only landscape worth
looking at was not inhabited. They
invested every landscape with consular
dignity and made it as they thought it
Should be. The English artist. Constable,
was the first to throw away mannerisms
and paint nature itself.
In 1927 a landscape made its appear
ance which had been painted by a
Frenchman, Corot. Corot understood, as
did no one else, how to represent the
charm of nature. 1T has been said there
was nothing but a breath in his land
scapes." Yes, but it was the breath of
the muse. Diaz also was not a mere copy
1st. He was the leader of tine famous
group of 1880. But it is Corot whose land
p have the charm of nature. He
keeps the color of his own country. AN
through his life the silver light OF Paris
is in his pictures. 1t was not until Corot
was nearly sixty that the public began
to find him out. For thirty years he never
sold a picture. although his brother
painters used to buy them and so try to
make the public buy them. Corot was a
naturalist who looked up above.
What at once distinguished Rousseau
from Corot was that Rousseau entered
more into detail. He was the first to
Of the dead brown of winter. Rousseau
was synthetical where others were ana
lyrical Corot was simply ignored, Rous-
and again his pictures were refused and
epithets neapeds upon them. The mild
Ssra term 81 eow sgp Z rocky e g : gaia aha 4 s ST Z
cts were SdIsboi iasa!s.ss .obseene. ep'' II
recognized by fame; the evil spirit pur-
sued him: ne was refused the cross of
al officer though his pupils received it
a aha n In f six months ne5lraa g W h1I ns others pa and
the forest from the outside, French
painters paint them from within. I have
thai in England there Is SO much under
prush and foliage that it would be i'm
D'Aubigny contented himself with
humble pictures, a tranquil sky reflected
in a tranquil river, and these separated
by a few buildings or trees. He stands
half way between Corot and Rousseau.
with Trayon the weather is always
worth noting. and his cows and cattle
seem alive. When you see one Of his pic
straight toward YOU; you can almost
feel their breath. The Romanticists lift
ed the ven which shrouded Nature and
revealed her in her wonder. her mystery
and her glory
Miss Kingsley had with her several
photographers of pictures by the mas
tiers of whom She spoke. sand she showed
storm the parlor was comfortably filed.
In a small room at the other side of the
hall a tea table had been arranged by
Miss Edge. The color used in the decora-
tion was red. Silver candelabra held
candles shaded by pretty red leaf shades.
Al bowl of red roses wassin the centre of
the table and cinnamon candy, salted al
monds and fancy cakes were placed In
pretty little dishes. At one end Of. the
We've and Miss. Adele Edge served cho-
colatet Pineapple punch was on a table
n the hall. Miss Edge was assisted in
serving by Mrs. Robert G.. Lyle, Miss
Leila Kinds. Miss Louise Heike and MISS
AmOng, those present were Mrs; George
Mrs Record, Miss Haight. Miss Matte
s. McCabe, Miss Grace White. Miss
Eloise Trott, Miss Amelia B. Movers.
Miss Mabel Snow, Miss May Florence
Park. Mrs. John F. Klumpp. Mrs. Hor-
ace G. Watt Mrs. Brown. Mrs. Arthur