Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-13

exaggeration, and the harmony OF tn,
| picture Is not disturbed. On the othei
handi a young woman with dog ap.
| pears IN bad taste. In a scarlet velvet
| waist whose colOrs DO not blend at all
| with the gray Of her drapery or the
white hair OF the animal The same
may be said Of little girl, IN the robe
%. red muslin
Perhaps IN these portraits. Lenbach
| takes occasion 20 recomganse himself
for the enforced quiet ~ his represent
tations Of men. lie has o passion Tor
TIE brilliant for the irldescont shades
VI mother OF pearl Tor the vivid ana
yet harmonious colors that appear on
a butterily's wing. Il 81 said that he
mas la his studio a glass case Of but
tlrllies and that bis eye In the inter-
vals u work rests constantly upon
them. But his effort 90 rival them De-
vain. There is between them and ha
palette an abyss oll che more impossi-
Die as Lenbach is hy nature designer.
The Instinct for color cannot De aC-
quired Il must De- Unborn.
Lenbach's style Is followed with con-
siderable success 0y EaulbIch nephew
Of tine illustrator whose works were
famous under tie second empire lie.
also ls excellent Ia PORTRAITS of men
and in the use VI 90 monochrome ,nts
but much loss successful with women
Two specimens of hs work at the
Grand Palace acelntl1t lnIs one
shows q man seated in profile. lrapel
In dark garment U.th border OF flr
90 a chair of IulI rel. the other girl
In "a pink dr.s. against background "
dark green leaves.
Far more than Lel9sIc or Berlin. or
even than Dresden. Munich influences
German art. The study OF modern
models Of the problems OF Hight and re-
Election. atmosIb,rorIC cfiQCts-all that
m8" DE called new has los origin IN
bavaria. and cot this school Franz
stuck is the best representative. Len
bach also was born ln Bavaria, but the
styles OF the Two artists are widely diff
fcrcnt stuck works with the cnthusi-
assn and The ardent force OF man yet
young-he ls only th.rty-seven. Wheth-
er his subject De religious, mythology
cal or modern. the treatment is most
effective In this NEUROLOGICAL pictures
there Is certain humOr Mermaids
and centaurs play az hide and seek
Little fauns engage Ia combat. knock
ing together their hard heads, while
the audience applauds. stretched on
the seashore a son of man carries on
a lively Irritation with a little siren.
His Bacchanalc. however. shows "a false
sense OF color The idea is we'll con-
celved. the action free and natural I'M
der a sky covered with heavy gray
clouds, beside a wood darkcned by the
approaching twilight. dance bowling,
reelng figures There D. truth In the
violent attitudes. and the composition
Is good. Reproduced In photograph or
an engraving the work would have
character and life, but In the original
the actual merit disappears, annIhilated
by the c0loring There are reds so
glaring, puppies so bright, indIgos so
hard, In a iuXtaposltIon so nharmonI-
Gus that one cannot help think VI the
description formerly applied 20 the pro-
auctions Of DelacrolX the work Of a
drunken broom
There could hardly be a greater con-
trast than that between this work and |
one by Carl Mari In the same r00m-a |
Holy Night The angels resemble those |
NJ Burne Jones, and the c0loriug has |
been inspired by Corrsgio but the |
grace and the sentiment Is the artists |
OWN, and the effect Is charming.