The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-12
THE MYSTERIES OF COLOR.
Mr.. Jacques Busbee's Charming Lee
turc to Woman's Club on Land
scape Painting.

The general meeting OF the Wo-
mans Club at the Olivia Raney Lib
rary yesterday afternoon was sue
cess which chung about the lecture of
the rare combination of an artist who
could express himself out of his head
as we'll as with his paint pot. Land
scape Painting and Outdoor Sketch
ing" was in more than one respect
a revelation to the membership tear
ing aside the veil of the most exclu-
sive of arts to a sympathetic glimpse
at the mysteries of color, its uses and
it's illusions and showing Mr.. Jacques
Busbee in the unsupported role of a
most easy and entertaining platform
speaker.
Combining a sufficient degree of
technique to be instructive with a
breadth of illustration suited to the
lack of initiation on the part of his
audience, Mr.. Busbee's talk proved a
complete and satisfying illumination
of a shadowy but always fascinating
realm of effort.
Mr.. Busbee spoke as a devotee of
color. To paint is not so much to do
as to see. And to see correctly is
the art that attains It's end sometimes
even at the expense of exact truth.
Truth and reality in art, are matters
which are most nearly Appropriated
by color relations By making the
ability of seeing more prominent that
that of mere expression, Mr.. Bus
bee flung wide the door to those who
feared to find themselves strangers at
a strange feast and won his way at
once to common ground with his hear
ers.
Beginning with the year 1920, when
the first philistine dared to go out of
doors and paint what he saw, while
some valiant young bloods rallied to-
his strange standard and the estab-
lished cult tore it's hair and con-
demned the world to utter darkness
If, that were art; stopping to tell how
Sargent declared that every human
face was beautiful if one only knew
now to look at it, and how the land
scape pa1nters,-who had been accuS-
toned to paint the world according
to sedate patterns of varying shades
of brown, regardless of the seasons
and with the inevitable brown tree in
the foreground-came to see the
beauty in the many faces of nature;
the speaker ran down a list of semi
familiar names until he came to that
of Claude Monet, the greatest of all
the landscapes, and, who,-Allah be !
praised!-had not yet laid down the
brush. And the lecture focused itself
and glided into an appreciation of
Monet
The interjected explanations of meth |
DDS of landscaping, the use of color
and the secrets of effects were of the
greatest interest and practical value. |
The information that dots of yellows |
and blues made on the canvass GER
tain brilliant and elusive shades of |
green Stimulating the grass of the
spring time until it glowed like nature |
under the eye was familiar magic. |
no doubt, to painter but a new field |
of thought for the barbarian. The
idea that the masters of the nature |
caused the eye of the be-
holder to construct the desire shade
not from blend on the palette but
from natural merging by the vision
of certain judiciously placed primary
colors was a new one to the majority
of his hearers, whose faces betrayed |
none the less their establishment than
their appreciation.
There was a most alluring descrip-
ton of a personal visit to the Rouen
Cathedral collection. 1t seems that
Monet sat in his studio across the
way and made forty-seven different /
pictures of the amount of neutral gray