Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-12-17
ART IN UTAH.
66@ GOD painting said Michael Angelo
v is noble and devout for itself; for with

soul and turns il more toward devotion than the
difficulty OF perfection, which is tendency to
approach God and to be united 10 Him; for
good painting is as copy OF Ills pcrfcctions,
a shadow Of His brush, Music melody.
The same artist explains that the painting OF
which he speaks asks only the imitation Of one
OF the nnulncrablc things which infinite wisdom
has crcatct-"bc ii fish Of the market place or
bird OF the air.
Such tendencies toward tic best il art
publicly manifested each year in o,r own State
BY the choice displays OF the genius OF home
talent grouped upon the walls OF one or another
of the halls of the leading towns by the oificia
acts Of the Utah Art Institute.
The exhibition OF paintings and other forms
OF the fine arts presented this ycur at Salt Lake
City. is another significant token OF the steady
growth of artistic tendencies among the people
This year, as for years past, on y local
artists have been invited to exhibit and not all
of them, by any means, have work III this dis
play. Yet the result is a collection of pictures
OF such merit as to awaken the admiration OF
all behoders. Every sincere patron Of home
talent may we'll feel gratifcd at the showing
now made in the Vermont building. Every home
should be ambitious to possess at least one
picture that is the product of home artists, and
preferably. that deals with local landscapes or
with other home surroundings III the far West
All Of our resident people have, OF course, seen
something Of the glowing, flaming, golden and
purple sunsets. or of the clear, blue dawn usher
cd in by the white and immaculate sunlight OF a
sunrise over Wasatch. Oquirrh, or Uinta noun
tain tops; all have at least glanced at the mag
niticent grandeur of the mountain masses and
the pinnaclcd heights Of the everlasting hills;
many have fingered the mirror lakes OF
mountain dclls. amid quakng- aspens, colulnbncs,
river hollyhocks. and car1nine gias; but not all
NAV have noticed that the greatest real beauty
OF these scenes is not easy to behold and is
very difficult to remember. 1t requires the art
st to choose the place and time of observation
and then to focus our attention upon some par
icular phase of the scene before the unframed
eye can take in the picture as the artists see it.
For the possibilities Of most scenes OF beauty
are so manv-so1e seem to be endless in their
possible variations--that only the artist can pick
out from the scene those aspects OF it which
ii is his special purpose to emphasize or con
slider, and BY putting just that much OF ii on
canvas 10 enable us to discern and study that
particular aspect mood of nature which he
himself perceivcs and en- joys
1t is by 10 means true that we sec the picture
OF mountain height or NOISY dell simply be
cause it lies before lis; for VIC are trained to
perceive; and as a rule. we discover only that
which we arc ncntly looking for.
81 IL, IL
perceive what he wishes lis to contemplate: and
art would be simple matter if this could readily
and uniformly be accomplished by hn,--if VIC
could always see i'll picture whatever or
the arts, chose to see. But, says La Fargo,
the decision OF the creator Of the drawing is
final. The variety Of drcamlnnd into which we
enter depends upon his manner OF opening the
gates Do not let us talk OF putting down
rccorting--wlat was there: there was there
what we intended to sec. The women whose
faces arc cnshrned for us in tic pictures OF
Christian sancty were not different from those
OF TODAY They had the same lighincss OF mind
the same caring for fashion, the same mean
nesscs, The same devotion. the same pure high
mndcdncss, that they have today From what
thev showed, the artist who cared for higher
things chose what he cared Tor He who did not
see" as we say-,ha is. who did not mean
gave us dryncss, hardness, and meanncss OF
character in the early portraits OF those same
periods, while higher religious art at the same
time gave to the world those refined spiritual
Madonnas tina, have ever appealed TO the hearts
of men since that day
And so the services OF the real artist--oi him
who brings to any scene his own conception Of
it, truth and wor,l, and who, by emphasizing
those feature, which he most appreciates lifts
nature to the measure OF his own ideals and
thoughts-such services, We say. are not meas
urcd by the mere delight OF viewing fine land
scapc or OF following the play OF human emo
lions as depicted Oh the canvas. The truth Of
arr is greater than this, and ever tends to cxaIt
the admring and apprcciativc bcholdcr to its
own high levels