The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1897-12-04
A TALK ON ART
Continued from First Page,

across the Seine into the fashionable
part of the city was always more or .
less an ordeal, if the visit took one I
further than the Louvre, which happily +
was on the banks Of the river and only +
a step from the Pont des Arts. On |
these memorable occasions we usual
ly Joined forces and dined in state at
Duval's or at an establishment in the
Palais Royale making atonement TO
our always slender purses by purchas- t
ing seats in the Sd or 4th tier, where
the hearing was excellent, even if the
view was somewhat married by the
low hanging chandelier, and during the
long intermission we could scurry
down and promenade with the best OF
them around the magnificent halls and
saloons of the gorgeous Grand Opera,
or wherever the evenings entertain
ment might find u.s. Thus a discreet
amount of play interfered with the
drudging studio work kept Jack from
being too dull a boy. But there was
hard work and much of it.
Good mornang mooseer Rouge. Hoo
vas yoor seestahe" was the greeting
received at the Bouguereau room at
the Julien Academy, then situated on
the Fauberg ST. Denis, the morning
of my appearance there. "Ah what
MAGNITUDE wheeskare, AveZ vous un
| doleare pour bois"' and shortly my
! identity was dropped and thenceforth,
| for two interesting hard working years
/ | became a student at Julien's in the
| Bouguereau studio. But it was not
until the genial faced old master Oc-
cupied the stool in front of my drawing
the following Wednesday morning that
the full significance of my position
dawned upon me. 1t is amazing, when
felt for the first time this feeling of
littleness and utter incompetence the
| mere presence of a master draughts-
man gives, whose work you have adj
mired all your life, and when he is
through with critical comment on your
humble effort you wonder at having
been rash enough to believe you could
ever learn to draw. However, the next
day finds you at it with heroic feeling
Of brave courage at daring to try at
all, particularly when your charming
fellow-students gather around your
drawing and openly mix fattery and
admiration with hash-up of the mas
ter's previous criticisms.
Monday morning at Julien's is al
ways an unpleasant time to the better
feeling students and were it not fol
the Importance of securing as advan
tageous positions as possible for the
weeks pose, would be skipped by {
great many. For it is then the Ions
suffering models are generally selected
and posed for the ensuing week. Wha
some Of them have to pass through
must be quite an ordeal. Although i
is part of their training and life
l have seen model posed for tn
altogether" fall from the model
throne in dead faint, so great wa
the strain.
There would be fewer models il
these heartless Academy studios wer
: it not that their ranks are overcrowd
ed and to several thousand in Pari
alone it is their means of livelihood
a To find the better class of models on
9 has to go to the private studios, wher
they are treated more as human be
ings.
The average Art student spends tn
first year or so in Paris acquiring facil
ity at making marks with charcoal O
bits of paper. | remember we'll tn
force of suggestion from Bouguerea
On an occasion when my weeks effol
seemed not to please the master-sai
he, IF you put more brains and les
charcoal on the paper your success
would be greater It is a great da
when the master suggests a try 9
color work, as that means he sees som
advance in the students capabilitie
7 with the crayon stick. Then the dis
Il heartening experiences seem to a
r. come back. The bright glowing color
:. as they come from the tube onto tn
~ palette seem to turn to mud on the car
vas, until it becomes pain to be tOl
one has natural eye for color an
then be told he produces positive mu
in the attempt to express it.
To try for the Salon is naturally til
great ambition of every Art student
Paris. With more or less hope he SET
the darling of his dreams turned int
the wide nav of the receiving port
on the last receiving day, an occasio
made much of by the students of Par
who gather about the gate and max
quite demonstration over the WORK
as they are entered. During my sho
stay in Paris Sarah Brown, the nott
rious model was leader in these d.
monstratiOns. Under her dare-dev
leadership the assembled students b.
came so obnoxious they were sever
Tins dispersed by the gendarmes, on
to re-assemble with louder hootins
and yells until it seemed pandem
mum let loose. To the nouveau, tt
long wait from the time of the picture
II delivery at the Salon Of judgment
its final acceptance Or refusal is pail
fully FESTIVE period. Usually he hi
himself to some small country villag
generally on the outskirts of Fontain
bleau forest. Having left careful d
rections with his conscIerge regardiI
forwarding his mail, for it is throue
this channel be receives the balef
green or welcome pink notification
the fate of his work. Some of the
villages along the Name, the Loin
Disc or Seine become favorite resor
- OF artists and students from Paris f
outings, and outdoor study and in o
OF the way places like Brolles, Greig
PoutOise Moset and numberless othe
. one may find little bands of Art stu
ontS during the Summer apd oar