The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-03-23
MISS SHOWS
ART TALKS
A ROMANTIC MOVEMENT
A ROMANTIC MOVEMENT

"Cnrlstus CoDsOIator" and "Christus
Remuneration" his Lies Doleurs de
le Terre," and even some of his por.
traits, form the strongest contrast to
the materialistic tendencies OF the
time and his grasp upon the eternal
verities found more pratical and
national expression in the develop
ment OF Paul DelaToche, who also had
much in common with Ingres.
Delaroohe had been educated by
the classic Gros, but modern history
and romantic story attracted him
much more than the antique. He
had more intuition than genius, and
rose to emnence by considering his
limitations and wisely using his
strongest qualities. His usual method
was to report what he saw In the
simplest, most dramatic manner, and
the result was matter of that artie-
tic force which inevitably insures
effective conception and srtistic skill.
But sometimes the idea and its ex-
preston were extremely unequal, and
then his work justified the assertion
that "Ingres brings down the idea
to the earth and makes us compre-
bend IT.: Dearoche. on the contrary,
cliDgs to the real and the familiar,
and by lavish use of the resources of
detail and arrangement, seeks to be-
guile our attention that be may seem
to fiji our Imagination"
His most ambitious work is the
"Hemicycle of Painters" in the Pal
ace of Fine Arts. 1t occupied him
Tor four enthusiastic years, and rep.
resents the arts of different periods
and countries with varied groups of
sculptors and architects as well as
painters. His portraits were always
of most satisfactory order, and up
on the death of his wife to whom he
was devotedly attached he seemed
to discover deeper springs of activity
and the religious works painted in
the finer motives are full of power
ani pathos and that indefinable
poetical element which we call gym
pathetic appeal.
These four artists, Ingres and Del
acroix, IScheffer and Delaroche, form
ed the heart, as 1t were, of the Ro-
mantle school. The movement in its
varied phases attracted many adj
herents, and it's exsggerations
brought about q reaction which sub
ieoted 1t to the gathering forces of
the persistent realism to which later
events gave.so strong power. But
the Romantic tendencies accomplish
cd q deep and abiding work in pro.
tucing a Catholicity of taste and
teaching which developes every
artist according TO his especial en-
towment. Thus the French schoo-
Of the present century has given US
beside the Realists, Orientaljsts and
New. Greeks, ecleetics and semi clas-
sicists animalland landscape, portrait
and figure, military and genre, M
pressiOnist and peasant painters, all |
doing fine, individual work and all
being true TO the national life and
French esprit.
1t is thus that all artistic roads,
save that of Germany, lead to France,
and thus that she has become the |
art teacher of the world. Her right |
% this position on tho score of tech
lical excellence cannot be questioned.
And in any general estimate the
Iensuousness and skepticism that
he inculcates is overbalanced by the
stability and faith of the other lead
ng nations. We have more to fear
rom certain phases of French facility
hat from any decided evil in French
or conception
FLORENCE l.. SNOW.