Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-11
TALKS ON ART
TO CLUB WOMEN
GARRICK MALLORY BORDEN
DELIVERS LECTURE
Declares California Has a Brilliant
Future, and Its Painters Have
Made Great Achieves
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The auditorium of the womans club
house was packed yesterday morning
when the members of the Friday Morn
ing club assembled to listen to a stere-
optican lecture by Garrick Mallory Bor-
den, secretary of the University Of
California extension course.
For an hour the speaker, who Is
one of the staff lecturers of the course,
| held his audience, while in a manner
both entertaining and instructive he
outlined the growth of art in Italy,
to the period of the Renaissance and
art in Florence at that time.
Before showing the excellent views,
Mr.. Borden, who has been an ardent
student of art and traveller in search
of knowledge in Europe, made few
remarks on California.
CALIFORNIA; Future in Art
"It is," he said, worth while to be
resident of the state of California.
This state, feel assured, has a great
future in art, for already, north and
south, there has been started a great
art movement.
1T also abounds in art instructors
and the achievements thereby have
surpassed any other state in the union.
"The reason for this is hard to de-
termine, but 1 have come to the con-
clusion that the climate here admits
of more leisure and there is therefore
a tendency for the enjoyment of the
good things of life.
Il do not remember in any other
state in the union, having, as 1 have,
in San Francisco and Los Angeles,
observed the motorman on a car tie
bouquet of flowers near his seat
where. he could enjoy fragrance at in
tervals. 1t is this enjoyment of the
beautiful things here which attracts
the visitor.
Prefers California to Wealth
While travelling, recently, 1 met a
man who was a tourist. He had come
here from New York and was return
ing home and as he gazed out of the
window regret seemed written on every
feature. He confided to me that he
was a resident of New York City
where he was engaged in business and
he had accumulated about a hundred
thousand dollars of course that is
but small amount of money said my
companion, and if l return to my
home and attend to my affairs, in
few years 1 will have accumulated
half a million. But, 1 don't think it
is worth while, I'd rather live here on
less and think L shall return
Just that sort of man is the one
who will foster the art movement here.
Then, again, California and the
great art center of the world, Italy,
are in many respects similar.
'The climate and valleys and noun
tains of the latter bear great points
of resemblance to those here.
"The Florentine art is the keynote
of the Italian art and L want to trace
from the beginning, the ruder art of
the early painters to the climax of
Florentine art at the time of Raphael
and Michael Angelo"
Shows Evolution of Art
Views, excellent ones, We're then
shown in order. The works of the ear
lier painters with their set figures,
rude outline and utter absence of per-
spective, painted for the instruction Of
the populace, at that time depending
on pictures for knowledge, as few of
them could read and write, were shown
in the transition to the Renaissance.
Straight lines began to give way to
curves through Fra Angelica, Felipe
Lippi, Lorenzo de Medici and Boticello.
The latter artist painted both the
pagan and Christian to meet the de-
mands of the people who were begin
ming to awaken to the great civilization
of the Greeks and Romans which had
preceded them and who wished to live
in measure according to the ways
and means of those two great nations.
One and only one of Boticellos madon-
mas has found it's way to the United
States. 1t is the Chigi madonna owned
by Mrs. Jack Gardiner of Fenway
court Boston.
The Sistine madonna and the ma
donna of the chair, two of Raphaeps
greatest achievements in art were
shown as finale and triumph in grace
full curves, regular feature and general
contour.
Following these were views of the
great works of Michael Angelo and the
dome of st. Peters designed by him.
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