Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-05-23
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Not only isS> there varietys1n the
change of nature, but there is the
variety Of the point Of view from
which she is !. viewed. This is the
great scale Of proportion that is to be
tried and the drawing of the same
clump OF: trees and pond or river or
fence with the horizon high: or low,
the picture upright, square or long
and narrow, with all the degrees be-
tween. The cutting on of the top
line that the foreground may be aug
mented, the experimenting with the
placement of the principal group to
this or that side, or the center, in fact,
every consideration Of the chosen
motif should be tried, not only for
the variety, but as the best way to
study proportions, to exercise fer
tiltty of invention and to guard
against that tiresome fault-conven-
tionality. p,
~ Beauty in Haystacks.
One OF the great landscape painters
or France painted two haystacks
under such different aspects. His ex.
h1bltion was of great interest from
the nature students point of view and
from the artists. There was score
or more of canvases from January
to December, from dawn to night. The
haystacks were painted through mist
and rain, under frost and sun, some
an hour apart in the moment of their
presentation and others months. It
seemed as though the artist had never
zwearied of showing how many phases
of beauty his subject could take on,
and his exhibition showed that he did
not weary the onlooker, for one went
over this calendar done in haystacks
with untiring delight in the changes
and variety. = !; :. -, '.s.'
If we present q subject as every.
one else has presented it there is lit
tie value. in our presentation. The
story has been told before and we are
repeating it. But if We take, no mat
ter how commonplace the theme, a
subject that has been told again and
again, and give it in new light and
a new dress We at once claim the at
tention. This is the artists claim to
recognition, that he shows us our own
world through new eyes.
Treat Subject Thoroughly.
It is meant that the student take
whatever material he may have and
pursue it to that end that he finds
interest in the study of proportion,
placement, balance and color, which
must come ii that artistic tempera-
ment is existant.
Let the proportion of each mass of
trees, ground, pond or whatever else
composes the picture be weighed and
tried. II, Let the ground be as two
thirds to the sky, as three fiftks, as
four-1fths. Let the sky predominant.
Try proportions of fifth of
sky, a fifth of dark trees to three
tifths of half-tone ground. Vary
the intensity of these with the proper
tions. It. will be seen that the pur-
pose is not the treating of the SUBJ
ject in as many ways as possible for
the sake of producing a quantity of
pictures, but by seeking to produce
the motive in every way in which it
seems to obey harmonious expression,
to cultivate the perception for beauty
to the point of finding beauty in the
most unpromising material:
To-Day's illustrations.
The illustrations show one motive
treated from different points of view
and under various conditions as set
forth in this article.