Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-30
JULES GUERlN ~ HIS STUDIO.
Jules Gu@riim, the Artist, and
His Journeys i'm Near East.

10 drink, they almost invariably order
narghile. / have tried a narghile myself
and found it very strong smoke. The
smoke comes through water and through
a long pipe and is very cool
! The favorite Turkish drink is made
/ of a little Sweetened water. and Favored
generally with the juice of some fruit
pomeSranate. orange or peach. They
are of all coiors-green. pink. yellow and
so forth An artist in looking upon
scene is in the habit of concentrating his
attention upon certain things and elimi-
mating others. For this reason the ar
tistic photographer is handicapped be-
/ cause it is so hard for him to eliminate
objects and colors that have nothing to
| do with what he is depicting
( AS an artist looks at one of the cafes
/ in the near east his eye is drawn to
these minute spots of color made in the
/ beverages which the people in the cafe
/ have before them at the various tables.
These spots are picked out like small
/ electric bulbs.
Things like this make me enjoy
painting in the east and in the Latin
countries / am more in sympathy with
| them-the sunlight and the life of peo-
pie always appeal to me. l would
never go to Sweden or Norway or to
England TO paint and expect TO do the
best work. A country without good
architecture would not appeal to me,
and it is the human element in the
landscape which appeals to my imag-
ination. To me the Grand Canyon is
one of the atrocities of the earth, with
absolutely no humanity to it-no
beautiful form, no beautiful color. SIM
ply a cash in the heart of the earth
a thing that has happened and the
sooner forgotten the better.
street travel in the eastern cities is
anything but agreeable to the nom
Mohammedan. The Mohammedan has
a peculiar quality of looking at you
and not seeing YOU II you happen to
be in his way he will not be over
polite in getting out of your way, but
is more apt to push you aside and ride
his horse camel right over the spot
where you had been standing.
The costumes of that part of the
world interested US both q great deal
/ have watched with much interest
also during the last year or so to see
the growth of the eastern idea in
Woman's dress In this country. l sup
pose we are Indebted to the Russians a
great deal for the first start of this
invasion of the occident and more par
ticulariy TO the artist Leon Bakst, who
designed the scenery and costumes for
Payiowa and the Russian ballet, and
who has put on a number of those
pieces including that very successful
piece that is now running In Paris. i
consider NJ. Bakst q very great artist.
There have naturally been excesses in
this eastern style of costume; you will
always find certain people who will carl
cature good motive One OF the best
things about the costume Is that 1T deco
rates the constructive lines OF the human
FORM and does not depend upon me-
chanical contrivances- to achieve Its re-
suits.
Take women's hats. for instance. The
crown of a hat which is supposed to fit
the head will start in directly at the
forehead just above the eyebrows and ter
inmate at the back four five and per-
| haps six inches beyond the nape of the
neck. This gives the impression of an
unnatural and lopsided Uranium. A
dome-shaped hat should conform to the
shape of the head as broad turban does
although it need not be the same size any
| more than turban is.
Zone of my paintings is called The
Cemetery at Eyub.' 1t is only within the
last few years that people have been per-
mitted to visit the mosque at Eyub, or
even the courtyard. The Turks do not
bury very deep in the ground. and look
/! ing over a cemetery YOU wifi find that
| the stones are seldom upright, being
sunken so little below the surface they
are not firm and have tendency to lean
over.
Wherever you see a tombstone. and
/ on top of II a carved stone fez painted
| red you know that man is buried there
| The inscription is often painted in gold
| in the beautiful Turkish characters on a
i blue background. and his name accom-
| panies the inscription. When a woman
/ is buried there Is no name put on the
tombstone. but there Is generally some
beautiful fiOwer-a rose or some climbing
! vine-or some emblem of that kind that
the man has adopted for that woman
/ He knows where she Is buried, but no
F! one else knows.
There is round hole cut through the
| center of the stone which lies fiat on
| the grave, and in this opening flowers
! are planted. The religious meaning of
| this is that the rain descends from above
1 and through this hole percolates to the
body and cleanses the spirit of the de-
parted
This cemetery is a great place for the
women to go and wander about among
the tombs. 1t is beautiful to see them
| in their long robes. always with their
faces masked. Women do walk in the
streets, but the cemeteries are the only
places In which I have ever seen them
loiter.
THE trees, which are cypress. are the
most beautiful i have ever seen any
where. They are about 1J0 feet high.
the trunks three or four feet in diameter
at the bottom. ] have never seen trees
| in any country--Greece. Italy. France.
nywhere-coRparable with the trees in
the cemetery at Eyub. Ip form they are
something similar TO poplars.
Down the hill is a mosque. the only one
II visited having a womans department
! When YOU are i'm the COURTYARD Won can