The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-22

erouS buyers. The proceeds OF the
sale will be devoted to the work of the
work Of the district nurse, Miss
Anne Lowell, president of the club
had general charge of the ar
rangements for the auction and
Miss Emily Wood was chair
man of the sale committee. Miss
Mae Thomas and Miss Florence Cobb
assisted. A pleasing entertainment
was furnished by Walter B. Eaton, pi-
anist, and w. /. Brown, who sang. Re
freshments were served by Miss Wood
and her assistants.
Memorial Hall was crowded to the
doors last night, when Miss jeanne
Lea Southwick lectured under the aus
pices Of the Worcester Art Society on
How to Look at Pictures" The lee
ture was illustrated by the stereopti-
con and the following views We're
shown: Pyton obelisk, Karnac
obellsk, Heliopolis; Philae, small;
Philae, water; Temple Hathor Den
derah; Hypostyle, Carnac; Temple
Concord Geigenti; Temple Neptune
Paesturn; Parthenon; Euchtheion;
north door Euchtheion: Monument
Lysicrates; Giotoo's Tower; detail of
tower; baptistry, Florence; cathedral,
Sienna; Ducal Palace; front St.
Marks; doorway st. Marks; interior
ST. Marks; Venetian palace; Rialto;
minorets; minorets, detail; high build
ing, New York; temple, hippo; Kuni-
saada trees; woman in doorway;
Hokusai balcony Hokusai bridge;
Hokusai bamboo trees; view of Assist;
Church St Francis, Assist: Arena
Chapel interior; Giotto, death of st.
Francis: confession of st. Francis;
daughter of Herodias, Giotto; Giotto;
presentation; Fra Angelica, presenta-
| ton; Fra Angelica, Jesus and Mag
dalen; Albertinelli, visitation; CHR
landajo, expulsion of Joachim, annun-
citation, visitation; Francesca, Queen
Sheba; Massacis, tribute money; Da
Vinci, last supper; Raphael, baptism
of Constantine; Veonese, rich man ana
Lazarus; Da Vinci, head of Christ
NJ Angelo, fortune; La Fargo, Bishop
Hatto; Zorn, e. Renan; Botticelli,
Semonetta; Blake resurrection; Hoku-
sal, fugi; Rosetti, proserpine; Whis-
tiers mother.
Miss Southwick was introduced TO
her audience by Rev. Austin S. Carver.
In the course of her lecture she said;
"There is a desire today to include the
study of art in the general education
of the child, not so much to make him
a producer himself as to show him how
to appreciate the work of others in its
highest forms and particularly to dis
tinguish between the art which is good
and that which is meretricious when
ever he may come In contact with such
things in his daily life. We should
therefore train him to discriminate in the
three branches into which allmay be d.
vided; first, that of an architectural ma
ture; second, decorative art, including
sculpture; and third, the painting of
pictures. shall try this evening to
explain a few Of the underlying princi-
pies which distinguish a good thing
from poor one and show you how
you may look yourselves for certain
essential elements which tend to make
a good composition, great work OF
art or the reverse There is moth
ing more irritating than to hear per-
son who enters a picture gallery say
with great frankness, 1 am no judge
of pictures but 1 know what l like and
then proceed to Judge the pictures be-
fore him on that basis scorning
frequently a fine work because at a
first glance the picture is not to his
liking, as though a picture of real
merit could be comprehended at snap
shot. How many persons can appre-
ciate, for instance, Shakespeare's SON
nets at the first reading?
Beauty is the basis of all true art.
In a painting we may have three kinds
Of beauty independent of the subject
matter of the picture itself-beauty Of
line, of dark and light, and of color.
Some pictures combine fine treatment
of all these subjects while in others we
find one of these principles only.
1T is much said today in connection
with art education that the study of
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portant thing. But there is something
that comes before that; there must be
a knowledge of certain elements which
no amount of nature study can ever
give us. Nature, for instance, says
nothing to us by which we can decide
as to the relative beauty of two build
ings or the height and proportion of
columns, doorways, etc.
"By line / mean first the boundaries
or shapes and with the straight line
as the simplest start we can see that
many simple forms can be made
squares rectangles and the like, which
may still further be cut by other
straight lines to make smaller forms
tremendously related to each other by
due regard to size and shape; and 1t
is by knowing how to make these pro-
portions well that we get great beau
ty.
IN lle DidGlilS VI a bullOAilS lht
environments should always be one
of the great considerations. 1t is as
important that the building should
grace the spot where it is to be placed
and the spot be in keeping with the
building as that a Woman's hat, should
be the proper and becoming covering
for her special head. Unfortunately in
both cases we often find the reverse
to be true.
''The whole plan of the buildings
and grounds at Buffalo was a fine ex
ample of the combination of these two
points. The electric tower there is an
example of failure in beauty Of proper
ton and fineness of line to make a
structure of that kind impressive in
itself
above all in color there is nothing
better than an Eastern rug; not the
modern analine dyed rug, but the gem
uine old one.
1.-THE principal beauty of an etching
depends on the quality of its line.
One must not make an etching after
the fashion of pen and ink drawing,
but depend for lights and darks on
light and deep fixings of the line.
In closing, l must say that 1t is
impossible to more than suggest in
one lecture a few points to consider
in the study Of pictures; neither can
one take recipes, as it were. and Judge
works Of art by such means. 1t is
only by long study of principles and
education of the eye, by locking at
good things rather than at poor, that
one is able gradually to decide such
things for himself.
IF you study the principles faith
fully and recognize them in the pic
lures you see, it makes what might
otherwise seem of no value an inter-
esting object and also teaches you
how to appreciate better a great work
which, till you have this knowledge,
you must take on faith"
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