The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-03


From That Time on Every One
Keeps Hard at WOrk-sOme Typi-
cal scenes.
Paris Letter to the Washington Star
''Ze rich American pays re drinks?'
The rich American is young man
from the classes of the Art League of
New York or from some art institute of
Philadelphia or Chicago-or, maybe, fur
Their West. 1t is Monday morning and
fine weather for Paris. The sun shines
through the clouds that weep over Paris
ian wickedness all through the autumn
and spring. The young man, fresh and
innocent, has been primed and warned.
He will not try for the official studies of
the Beaux-Arts because there the new
conner has to submit to hazing too dis
graceful for free-born American, such al
being stripped like model, painted many
colors or even tarred. Also the examina-
lions which are required are rather stiff
for our Western habits of study
So he directs himself to the Julian
school in the Rue de Dragon, where the
bulk of American painters of Paris breed
ing have preceded him. He has a high
hat on his head, like Harry Hare, which
in time will also try his respiration. But
all he hears as he enters the working
room where the students of painting are
gathered is the unanimous cry. "ze rich
American pays re drinksr'
Not at once, for work is on hand II is
new to his experience of tame art as
praeticed among boys and girls at home.
Here, for valid reasons, the students are
all males. The American girls who must
and will study art in Paris have to go by
themselves, very properly, and many of
them, after exploring the ground, settle
down contentedly to private study under
some American artist who has transferred
his classes from America to the glamors
of a foreign shore But the young men
attend to the strict and serious business
of their profession under French aus
pieces
This Monday morning there is a strong
odor OF Italian art in the field. 1t is the
Model Market" when nine or ten of the
living beings whom the student Is to study
is muscle and framework, dimples and
foreshortening, are standing on a platform
in row, waiting for the inspection of the
students, after which votes will be taken.
| and those who please best will be engaged
10 pose for the class as they may be want
ed.
They are all in the dress which was the
invisible garment of Adam and Eve be-
fore the fall. There is an old man who
has been celebrated Samson and a St.
Jerome in the desert, and beside him is
the patient-looking Christ OF more than
one painting exhibited at the salon. There
are some young children who have been
cuplds or cherubs; and there are young
women who have posed for Rochegrosse' s
Babylon.
There are whole families that find a
living, from father and mother to sons
and daughters, by posing as models
Bouguereau is said 10 paint now the
children and grandchildren of his first
models. Some beong TO the class named
in the Latin quarter "studentess." and
they find considerable increase of in
come from these studios. When the an
nual ball of the students of the Four Arts
comes around-the Bal des Quat-z
Arts, which once led Paris to the edge
of revolution, and Is now held with
doors rigidly closed to the profane, I'M
der the eyes of a police force-all these
young women models join in the parade
and the fun.
on this Monday morning. when the
choice has been made, the rejected
huddle on their clothes and disappear
The elect lady continues on her plat
form and takes the pose indicated, and
the students, who have no time to lose
begin drawing her outlines and form
from every point of view. To be "out
of drawing is the one unpardona BILE
sin of an artist nowadays, when every
trained student can learn to draw as
he once learned to write. II is this ex-
ce,lence of the training in drawing that
makes the Paris schools the best in the
world
The first thing which the young Amer
lean has TO learn Is to see the minutest
shades of form, for until now he only
saw ii In a general way. Wherever the
least shadow is made by the light from
face or arm or bust to foot and toe
drawing must reveal IL, although the
best photography might not. But to
draw the student must first see. and 1t
is only by long study Of these models,
with many fixtures in his drawing, that
he reaches the pl oud moment when the
great painter who criucses the students
work and stops and says; pas NAL"
mot bad).
IT is to work for year, perhaps up to
that time. that the American with the
high hat on his head has appeared at the
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