The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-21
dRIBN9ALISYS,
Miss Kingsley Lectures on the
Artists Who Paint, the
East.

Mrs. Kingsley delivered the third OF
her series Of lectures IN French art yes
terday afternoon at the residence Of
Mrs. Klumpp, No. 1888 Ocean avenue. She
compared Detaille ard de Neuyille, and
said that one cannot be such a ~draughtS-
man as Detaille except by constant study,
but though de. Neuvllle is not such 4
consummate draughtsman or co,or.st as
Detallle, yet his pictures never tire one
as Detaille's often do. Put ,Deta Hes
pictures beside Neuville's and you feel at
once that while Detalile,s are perfec5 IN
painted with the mans heart blood. and
they live with patriotic ardor Il pictures es
are TO present the essence OF reahty~tdnMsy
spirit of war viii live in Neuv.ile's pic
lures when others are FORGOTTEN. Botn
both painted what they saw. but De Neu-
vile also painted what he felt. !.
Miss KINGSLEY then came 70 an artist Of
hours instead Of minutes could be profit
ablg spent : MS N :. the his study Of w ms works and
himself on Dutch plans. Until his time
few French painters had used the living
model F Me painted + 1 n stmosi S w.rnaes t 9
say so, one sometimes misses the inward
feeling in Meissonier's paintings because
IS ns d nsv MilI all0p sai t imag Il al ana afee Can Ply g
said against this painter. One cannot
but regret that he seldom or never at
Ie1ODBEu pictures VI tlS ECOulCti1DO4 al iCE-
IT was an order from the Emperor to
paint a picture Of the Battle of Solferino
which turned. his thoughts 10 battle; and
contemporaries for the wars of the first
Meissonier was one of the hapy artists
who stood the test of a one man snow.
That kind of a show is an unconscious
biography of the man. it shows where ne
M Ris fa made S Mae inrn mada poi nis so It axes
a strong man to stand this one-man
show in a posthumous state. and It takes
q still stronger man to stand it II fe.
MISSIONER not only stood 1t in life. but
his reputation was increased, by. it.
Gerome was made famous by his pic
are found perfect drawing and the exquis-
lite texture of sun-browned fesh.S Since
his picture. THE Cock Fight his life
lures are painted with the utmost science,
S kill. and particularly. and with m
thing else tn the ag soul of Graas poet f. Us sds
crates. his Rome the actual Rome Of the
Caesars.
In Henner's pictures one is transported
to. another, world Of purity and innocence.
His nymphs are not only, nymphs, put
real women. It is the look, the shining
forth Of the soul. that Henner paints
to class. she had a hot dispute with a
competent critic when she said ne was. a
democratic painter; Ths orldle calls si nm
the French Revolution many ~circuncstaE-
ees have drawn attention to the East. In
this century a large and important school
has grown which draws its subjects from
the East. While they are divided in
methods they are all occupied with the
study of light. Still the real creator of
Oriental art Is to come. These painters
have in some ways made the East live
for us. Those who have made pictures
the truest to US are those who have
learned from nature their secret. The East
has almost taken the place of Italy in art,
and it has given US a new group of artists
whose ideal is the expression of the real
by the true.