Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-08-11
PROGRESS IN ART.

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Only twelve Of the States. and Utah
is one of the twelve, make provision
for the teaching OF art In the public
schools.
The annual expenditure for this In
strlIctton amounts to eleven and a hale
million dollars.
The federal government makes no
appropriations whatever for art in-5
sstruction. I is approved by the state
authorities ard promoted by means of
INSTRUCTION in state normal schools In
4 others. making a total OF 43 states in
lterested in the subject.
Massachusetts and New York em-
ploy; state supervisors of art instruc-
ton and Massachusetts maintains a
State normal art school.
Henry 4. Bailey of Massachusetts,
| representative of the United States at
the third international congress forSthe7
advancement or drawing and art teach
ing at London last August. says thar
though art instruction In this country
is yet In It's infancy, he predicts that
in the near future. as Is already the
case in France, Germany and England,
the relation Of art to industries and To
national welware will be SO keenly ap-i
preciated by all oul' people that they
will make more liberal appropriations
to all effective agencies for furnishing
art instruction.
Commissioner of Education Brown
says the subject is of the utmost i'm
portance, not only to the upbuilding of
American civilization in one OF its fin
est forms, but also to the progress of
many of those Industries which under
lie our civilization.
The practical side OF art Instruction
is the part that appeals most strongly
TO the general public. and is, without
doubt, of great advantage in a tinan-
cial sense to the community that Gull
tivatcs it. Nevertheless. 1t is easy TO-
demonstrate, to those capable of un-
iderstandng the. subject, that is, to-
those who have artistic taste and who
admire the works of art from the
standpoint Of real meaning and esthetic
value, that the financial benefit of art
to any community is one OF the least
of the benefits conferred by art studies.
Thegeevation or the taste of the COM
#nunlty at large, the extension OF the
possibility of enjoyment, above all, the
personal feeling of living over with the
artist some of the emotions and pleas
ures, even the raptures, which the art
list himself enjoyed while in the processS
of the creation of his work-these are
some of the advantages of the higher
modes OF thought and feeling that may
be experienced by those who merely
enjoy The productions of the artist.
Though we cannot at will take up
all the pastures of the mind of another,
yet'those who feel pride in the enjoy
ment of beauty are under no illusion
when they feel. for the moment, some
what as II they had made the work
which they admire As La Fargo ex
pressea ii, these persons become, for
an instant the man who made it, and
whenever an artist produces Il real
work of art, he is at his best In thus
entering, as it We're, into the mind and
purpose of the author, other people feel
that they are better than themselves
while thus situated. During these mo-
ments, the spectators live a serene and
colnplete existence
1t is considerations like these that
give TO art studies their chief value and
significance in any community. BY
melting oneself into the methods and
reasons tor the methods of the mas !.
ters.'' we share their life, enjoy their
emotions. participate In their triumphs
While not decrying or even underes-
5tirnating the financial value of art 10
the community, we recognize in art
something that dollars and cents can
mt buy.
Mr.. Bailey enumerates the chief
agencies for promoting art instruction
in the United States, chiefly the public
school, art schools. special evening
schools, art education publiea4 -.