St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1906-04-21
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Dear uncle" said little Dilly with
an anxious look, "tell me. what II
Art?''
''Art, my. dear nephew" replied
Uncle George. vigorously, busting the
ashes from his nickelodeon on his
waistcoat, is all that makes life worth
living, and art is also the bane Of our
existence. It gives employment to
many deserving men and women, and
causes the treasury department untold
anguish. AS handled by Velasquez or
Rubens 1t is ethereal and taken care
Of by Mike Clancy and Pete Fogarty
It is dipthereal. the difference being
that the first two are not in posi-
ton to reap any reward for their work.
and the latter are clamoring hungrily
for more work at $3.50 a day. Done
by q man who needs the money, art is
worthless, but II produced by some
'gilded imbecile who has more than Is
good for him, 1t becomes at once OF
extreme value-to some persons.
Turned out by q printing press the
picture is not art, handled by long
haired gazabo attired in soiled vel.
vet coat and q vandyke beard, who
slaps wads Of color on good canvass
with an air brush or q whitewash Inn
Element It becomes an impressionistic
symphony. There is line Of de-
narration somewhere. Dtlly, but you
get three guesses. and no one puts 1t
in the same place"
~.%Ac<o naSnf Hoar Ynn1e 9s
asked Dilly.
mo. my dear boy" replied Uncle
George. Some of them merely touch.
Others. again, fuss about on . pine
board with q piece Of hot metal; still
Others are to be found upon the stage,
and others, again, are in Jail; but all
are artists. Augustine DAILY once re-
marked that an artist without temper
ament was Of NO value, and that II he
had temperament he was crazy, so that
the patron was stung either way he
played it.. Yet there are many wise
met, in the art game, and 1t is these
who make the coin trip merrfly IN
their direction. To many Of US art
il I game; sort Of catch-as-catch-can-
I-saw.it-hrst proceeding. Good Master
Pierpont Morgan goes abroad and pur.
chases largely Of works Of art and
NAYS enormous sums to have them
brought here. Then some rude per-
son points out delicately that Mr.. Nor
gan has been stung, for his object OF
art was turned out in jersey City or
Mayayunk by garlic eating artist
with some plaster Of paris and z nne
sense Of humor.
"To a great extent art depends upon
tn antiquity. What would be the
sonl OF art II done by Michael Ange-
II would be but paltry effort when
turned out by your friend. Algernon
st. Leger Dubbe, down the street, that
Is If the public knew it. but 1t Alger-
non was foxy enough to break the leg
If his statue or crack the varnish OF
his picture and let some one discover
q IN an excavation or an attic as the
case might be, it would become real
ar 10 the mind Of many thinking
persons billy, the old masters were
the bunco mensof their day. To many
others they were all the goods You
never can tell. Much art comes from
abroad. and the native artists are
aIathering considerably over the CUES
finn az duty upon art. II they are to
IA nut IN competition with the pauper
art labor OF Europe they can see their
dinner pals dwindling, but II we are
q have high protective tariff on art
they think perhaps they will be able
"a buy enough coal to heave at the
wolf that is rubbing the paint from
the door post. It is sad thing, my
s. dear boy, to think that the foreign
trade IL driving our artists to the
: wal"
..Does.all art come from abroad, dear
uncle." asked Dilly.
eyes, Dilly," said Uncle George
..Art is always distant from where we
live. To the resident Of Oskaloosa, the
only artists live in Paris. To the
american in Paris all art comes from
Rome. and II you can get far enough
east you will ind that the only true
Art has its habitat somewhere between
Tarrytown and Coshohocton. We
Rave jus. discovered. my boy, that the