Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1907-11-01

Talks on PaliSade /


longing by painting sketches in oil along
the Palisades section. He has rugged
up a convenient paint box to fit the dia-
mond frame of bicycle, and idle days
or hours will see him vending his way
toward inviting spots where his rejoic-
ing brush will idealize touch of nature.
To be a picture painter is to be pos
sessed of one of the greatest talents
vouchsafed to man. Many artists have
gained reputation as painters of people,
but their work has not had lasting
qualities because they were not picture
painters. To become a picture painter,
a man must be of the Murillo or Mi
chael Angelo type These two great
painters put character into faces that
was sublime in execution because both
men possessed the genius of the true
picture painter Most portrait painters
are cold and Indifferent because they
lack this essential They cannot get
away from objective art, the most un-
emotional and expressionless of the
many forms of art. Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds could never rank with Murillo
because of the distinction | have named;
yet Reynolds left a great name because
of the school he represented he was,
perhaps, its highest exponent. But Rey-
nolds never ranked with Gainsborough
because the latter was picture painter.
And to be this the artist must know and
study nature-the outward forms we see
in the hills and dales, the trees and
grass and rocks and skies above us.
All these must be his vocabulary from
which he not only draws his inspiration,
but from which he desires those emu
lating influences which spur on to d1
viner effort Faces and clothing are not
natures accessories, and to paint rib
bon is to paint a feather. These have
form, but each is without soul. Thus
to paint likeness is to reduce the work
to the objective plane. 1t is another
thing to paint portrait into which one
may look and see the soul. Nature
alone gives these equivalents, and that
brush which seeks its inspiration from
Natures atmosphere, will soonest pluck
the laurel from fame's great book of
achievement.
Whole columns have been written of
the marvellous work of Marconi, who
has at last been able to send messages
over the Atlantic without the use of
wires. Fifty years ago such PROPOSE
ton would have been ridiculed To-day
everything men say they will do is given
consideration. We are not living any
longer as scoffers. Science has done so
many wonderful things that nowadays
anything goes.
Marconi has harnessed the air we
breathe into doing his bidding. He has
set up two poles of a great battery, then
started the ends to find each its affinity.
They go piercing the ether like thought,
find each other and thus we have the
wireless message Nobody ever be-
lieved that Morse could ever really talk
over a wire by mere dots and dashes,
ct he did it, The telephone was long
questioned. SO was wireless telegraphy.
Now the wireless telephone is a GER
tainty. Even a STRIPPING has invented
process of talking by wireless between
Europe and America The time for
wonderment at anything man does APP
pears to be thing of the past. What
ever of the marvellous comes along,
we must accept The world is getting
too prosaic to be interesting. There's
nothing to it. When we can talk to
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