The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-16


lunconaciously gives man comfort, and
in the other ignorance, the failure to
see and adapt, causes continual, but
unconscious, discomfort. If the city
man would cover the disagreeable wall
paper of his living room with q quaint,
| 1ow-toned one, remove the poor pictures
and nonsense, and substitute comfort
would find much the same pleasure il
his own sitting -room that he found
the farm house.
| In the proper hanging of pictures
| the home, a necessary thing to nalS
| 1t beautiful end artistic, many thing
are to be considered. First of all, have
the wall paper, the background, low
toned, soft, and restful. Poor back
grounds are the secret Of many failures.
| Never hang pictures to improve the
paper, but rather have the paper i'm
prove the pictures. If you haven't
good pictures properly framed, don't
hang them. 1t will be far more sat
| isfactory to look at the paper. IF you
have a fine picture, one that gives you
never ending pleasure, give 1t q place
by itself on one wall by itself. If you
have four or five little sketches frame
them originally and hang them to-
gether in an unconventional way in a
place which they fit. Don't hang pic
lures after a set rule an equal distance
from the floor, in a set row, q big one
with two little ones on either side and
the like. Rather have them irregular
novel. Work in medallion or a plas-
ter bust here and there. Have a carbon
portrait in on oval frame and get va
riety generally. A large number of
| pictures are not necessary if they ara
| properly disposed of. Have contrasted
harmony as far as possible. Don't
| hang q. red sunset over a crimson scarf
or two very green landscapes side by
| side. Have regard for the furniture
and consider the spaces between it and
| the ceiling carefully. Gold frames on
pictures Of much color must have a
deep background. Dainty water colors
| in gold or white frames will look well
on such a ground or they may be hung
ON light wall paper.
Good taste is necessary TO artistic
arrangement and always be original
and simple. The beautiful always
takes study to be appreciated. The
snowy sometimes looks Well at first
but does not wear. Easily study ma
lures harmonies-the pool in the mea-
dow bordered by brown grass and re-
Meeting the blue sky, the pearly gray
tree trunk against aground Of deep
green-the pink and white apple BIOS
som surrounded by. fresh green leaves
little details seen everywhere. and enc
will soon learn to know what God in
tended should go together in the way
of color harmonies
In conversation with a leading decor
atols the spy man has secured the
statement below Study Of it will aid
in making the "home beautiful
Tn the first place, it may be suggest
ed that it is not desirable to put oil
paintings in the same room with en-
cravings or drawings in water eolors,
crayons or other like materials. IT is
often done, frequently as a matter Of
necessity, but we consider it, from
point of artistic taste, mistake. Again,
there should be certain classification
Of subject in the pictures ornamenting
the walls, as inattention to this is oc-
casionally ludicrous. / recall one in
stance where there was a print of Ru-
ben's Descent From the Cross" and.
hanging on either side Of it engravings
of Wilkes Village Festival and Mes
sonier's Cavalry Charge" Surely
nothing can be more absurd than plac-
ing in immediate juxtaposition works in
which the motifs of the designs are
SO directly opposite as the illustration
of death, a village revel and the fierce
shock of battle.
AS general rule it is well to place
pictures of a certain order of design to-
gether. Some works can only be seen
to advantage in bright, and others in
a subdued, light, while it is equally
certain that many lose nothing if plao-
ed above the line of sight, and others
gain rather than lose If hung much
nearer the floor.
''No absolute rule can be laid down
as to the exact distance at which a pic
ture should be Viewed, as that resolves
itself good deal into the question Of
the particular power OF vision of the
spectator. But what one would urge,
and that emphatically, is, give every
possible opportunity to see an artists
work at the best. as too often the most
valuable paintings are robbed of half
their interest by injudicious hang
ing
by Ge.orgse. there is az. oniee.hsolder who