The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-07

deed. the velocity and variety % the
aforesaid wheels 10 almost binding
J Wheels 80 every description: wheels within
wheels; Catharine wheels, and the wheel
% lNiOn poor art lashed 10 the spoken
Such busy little Wheelal SuCh busy httls
Ooya. Manst. CAzanns Wheels The cor
uscatiOn 10 daSRling. the noIas deaf.n-
ing. Whils the quiet canvass In the
cOll~ction sssm like mOurnfIl WrAiths
All the lads aud lasses, the insurgents.
revolntionists, anarch-. socialists. all the
opponents to any form 81 government. to
any method Of discipline are To he seen
ut this vaudeville in color. and the wOrss
they smear the more they ting at the coat
tails Of painters like Henri. Davies. Law
son. Glackens. Bellows. Rockwell Kent and
Few others for support The pendulum
has swung from the insipidity and con
ventiOnality u the Academy To the Oppo-
site extreme TO rawness. dull vulgarity
there Is a fresh vulgarity. Won know
and the baHalities IL Wretched paint.
draughtsnianship and composition. The
younger generation has kicked in the
front door u the master builder. bat
something 10 lacking art; the chief devil
possessing this show 10 the devil % empty
display. There Ia plenty Of crude talent.
hut without schooling or direction These
young women and men wish 20 sing Isolde
and Tristan. BranAiids and S,s1frisd. be-
fore they have mastered their scales.
But the gesture IL brave. a. they say
IN Partisan anarchtstic circles when
some imbeoile throws a bomb at a gen
darme. IL 10 we'll To inform oficisl circles
az times that there are children among
1 than RaEtnaE parhaaaa aka
thing tOcTiticIse n this hastily imDrOvissd
anair 10 ia lack % unity, ita absence Of ten
denoy. in word, its general futiity. A
for novelty, why. at Alfred Stieglitz's
Photo Secession Gallery q week ago there
wns "A grouping Of the minor spirits % tho
Maltese movement that were actually
new not mere OdshOO's u the now morn
humid impressionists a. are the ina iOrity
Of the independents However. nsithsr
raging abuse nor cool criticism will prove
10 the muddiers of CANVASS in Thirty
! hfth street that they ought 90 he at house
OF slgn painting flor the technical Lessons
involvedI or breaking stones "a the high
way instead og wasting good paint and
muscle Paul Gaguin said that n painter
10 either a revolutIOnist or a plagsirist.
These young folks have demonstrated
AihCu abthNN w pt8N hS'U IOsra WIN Notu-
plete cosnplaisance. However. there 10
limit. and this limit logically resolves itself
into the Fakirs' exhibit in West Fifty
seventh street The Fakirs are the con
Meeting link between Academic stupidity
and impertinent Independence.
Three years ago THE SUS salutad the
work oG such men as Davies. lawson,
Henri, Glackens sloan. Jerome Meyers.
/ Nil -.
Everett Shlnn and others They are here.
bat not IN their beSt estate; yet how
r-splendently they shine Mr. Henri.
whose Influence upon the youthful. war.
like spirits - very fatally marked. shows
a SaloIne dancer startling IN it, coarse
ness a. nefit- the theme therefore
human document What such --n-n-
tiunali-t a. Ben Ali Haggin attempted m
the fall length portraits IT Mary Garden
aud Rita Saccnetto. Henri achieves with
virtunsity that ovrrwhelm- He even
dares to tel the truth. schopenhauer
truth, about the lower limits 70 his model
She - short legged II painters re-
corded that fact oftener portraiture would
soon g. out - fashion. MIR Henri - al
ways brilliant. Yet dare We confess it'
the marine IN the second hoor il worth
W. au aENtNhtN NaN NJ wv lFiNaNN ~ 'ul-
show He - sincere, powerful Inagina-
tive in thai marine.
Mr. Davies has several pictures. As
Movement u Mater - tho most --,iuc-
tive. but hts wonderful color still more
wonderful poetry. seem like Angels a-tray
IN the rIck and confusion II these gal
Isrie- Mr. lawson - 20 i,e viewed better
at his individual show IN the Madison
Gallery. Mr. Glackenss big nude - sur
pri-ingly brilliant. though rsinini~r-nt ~
RenoiT particularly in the color scheme.
The Bellows pugilists We admired ~ the
Pennsylvania Academy. and We have
described before the surprising picture of
BlackWelI- Island by Julius COLI. Finer
Livingston Macrae holds his own. and
James Preston IL on the way 10 he
completely l==sonizsst A. foT Everett
Shinn. he appears - maSter % the classic
manner when compared With some % his
neighbors
Road Breaking by Rockwell Kent
further confirms our first impression 81 the
young mans talents when he made his
maiden exhibition on Fifth avenue Cat
CIausen'sD two OF three seasons ago. t