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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23
The Fall Into the Chaos of
Cubism.

The types thus far travcrsed, though
steadily rcceding from the technical
rroprioty which we noted as character
istic of the lmprcssionists who gave us
our point Of departure. have been will
ing to subscribe TO the axiom that form
Is form Ctzanne, Van Gogh. GauSuin
and Matissc. each marking a further
drlft away from the facts of the visible
world. have yet confessed 10 the DOM
nance of fact as fact To the extent Of
making man. say. look more or less
Ike "A man But We have warned the
reader OF how the plot thickcns, and
especially of the effect that cheek"
has had upon the process When we
bid farewell to Matissc. whose nudes.
prcpostcrous - they are. yet suggest
the forms of men and women, we find
ourselves in the company of 'revolu-
tiunarics" who are not dealing with
form as we understand il at all With
them man begins To look like some
thing else. preferably like some mass of
faccttcd or curved little bodies thrown
together in heap. The Cubist steps
i'm and gives MS not pictures but so
many Square yards of canvas. treated
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23

some and unprofitable task. II Is a.
WEAKNESS that is peculiarly sgnifcan,
After all, the chief trouble about Poe,
Impressionism and Cubism is that thsv
ment a little fun in them. ars,
glimpse Of piece Of sculpture like, saw
Archipanko's Family Life" inevitably
provokes a smile. But enough Ia AZ
good as a feast. There is a parlous lot
of this sort of thing In the exhibition,
and it soon loses its power to amuse
Yet we maintain that the Associs.
ton Of American Painters and Sculpt.
ors has builded well in bringing owe
all this foreign stuff. 1t is high tim:
for America to see for itself what mis-.
chief there is abroad in the sphere 3.
art, and save that no place is found tor
the Italian Futurists, whose astound.
ing traits as seen in their Paris exh.
bition last winter have already beer
described in The Tribune. the lesson
enforced is as full as need be. More.
over, 1t cannot be too heartily empha.
sized that the mountebanks, Will.
given abundant space, are not by an'
means in the ascendant. In the rest O.
the exhibition, to which we shall re.
turn. there is much that is &C serious
interest. Il. c.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23

as though they were so many square
yards of wall paper. But the Cubist
wants to eat his cake and have It, too.
He paints you his riddle Of line and
color, and then, as in the case Of M.
Marcel Duchamp. calls 1t Nude De-
scending a Staircase" In other words,
he has the effrontery to assert that his
picture" bears some relation to hui
man life. Who shall argue with him?
For our own part we fatty refuse to
offer him the fiattery Of argument. Ac-
cording to the Spanish prOverb II is a
waste of lather to shave an ass, and
that criticism Of the Cubists is thrown
away which does not deny at the out
set their right to serious consideration.
Are we to be at great pains to explain
that a chunk of marble Is not statue!
Are we deliberately to demonstrate that
a battered tin can is not in the same
category with a goblet fashioned by
Cellini? Are we to accept these Cubists
as painters Of pictures because they
have covered canvas with paint? Are
they indeed forces which cannot be
ignored because they have had re-
sIlts?" These results" have nothing to
do with art. Why should they not be
ignored?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23

in architecture with ponderable sub
stances. If we lay stress upon the
point 1t is because we have here the
one chief source of danger. What the
student OF these strange "isms' needs
to be warned against is the specious
argument that he cannot test them by
any principles Of criticism hitherto
known to him. but must look at pict-
ure as though it were something else.
and admire il for qualities which he
cannot see in It but must take on
faith. There are numbers of nomi-
nally intelligent persons who seem
really to believe that such an hypothe-
sis is defensible.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23
MATTERS Of Ak !
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people," he says, talk so much ABOUT
meaning and about life, and 50 little
about technique, values, tone, drawing,
perspective, studies in blue, in white,
etc" We are grateful to Mr.. Hapgood
for exposing in this bit of concrete evil
dence the fallacy which more than any
other threatens to mislead and com
pletelv obfuscate the too confiding
observer. Unconsciously, he puts his
finger on the crux of the whole prob
lem. To go to this exhibition with
solicitude about meaning and about
life" at the expense of matters of tech
nique is not simply to beg the question;
It is to give it away with both hands
In art, elements of meaning and
life" do not exist until the artist has
mastered those technical processes by
which he may or may not have the
genius to call them into being. This Is
not an opinion. 1t is statement OF
fact. To exclude technique from art Is
no more possible than it is 10 dispense
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23

of handling pigment from that common
to the members Of the Barbizon school,
their principal innovation, which was
that Of giving the light OF the open air
its full value in a picture. involved no
departures from the broad grammar or
art. In composition. in form, in mat
tiers of human expression, they sought
as generations of their predecessors mad
sought. to record the truths of nature
Now let us turn from their paintings
to those in which new philosophy OF
art is supposed to have been an
nounced; let us turn to the paintings Of
Cezanne. This Well-to-do FTenchman,
who had no boilers to paint, out
could use his brush for his own amuse-
ment. had in him, despite wholesome
personal traits. the faint of the anna
tour He had some feeling for land
scape and the figure. He Sroped
toward an expressive treatment OF
form. and in his nudes you can dimiy
make out some rather handsome inten-
tions. Just as in his landscapes you can
lust discern the aims of colorist and
a designer. But Cezanne's dreams didn
come true" and this not because he
was in the throes of some new, alb
struse conception Of art, but because
he simply did not know his trade.
There are no esoteric glories about
Cezanne, hidden from the vulgar. He
was merely second-rate Impressionist
who had now and then fair luck in
painting a moderately good picture but
would never have come into fame at all
if the dealers had not taken nm up
and there had not been the usual band
of scribes ready To applaud something
new. Calverley. in one OF the droliest
of his poems, celebrates the casual or
gan grinder. and chooses this theme, so
he quantity tells us. ''for a change.
Something of this sort happened 10
Cezanne. The only mystery we have
TO reckon with in his case lies IN the
fuss that has been made about hlm.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23
An Easy Way of Gathering a
Crowd.

Every one knows how easy 1t Is to
gather a crowd in city street All
YOU have to do Is to stand on a corner
and look up at the chimney pot on a
tall building. In five minutes you are
the centre Of an eager. curious throng.
1t is no new thing for the mr.
fist to profit by this expedicnt'
Years ago the clever Frenchman
learned how to paint the big sensa-
tional picture which made a hole in
the wall" and caused everybody to
stop and cape. Post-Impressionism
saw the efficacy of this trick and de-
cided to go 1t one better" Cubism
has merely carried the thing to Its lo9i-
cal conclusion. And the crowd on the
corner has swelled to astonishing d.
mansions. 1t requires no profound inl-
tiation to see the wisdom Of passing on
and leaving the crowd to waste it's
time. We cannot too often repeat the
statement that there is really nothing
grand. gloomy and peculiar about the
freak pictures in this exhibition. Con-
scientiously we have examined them
all. and, frankly. have not even found
reason for distinguishing in this place
between one exemplar of the new
movement" and another. Why, in
deed, should we pay NJ. Duchamp the
compliment of detaching him from the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23

company Of NJ. Paul Picasso? There
Is no essential difference between NJ.
Dunoyer de Segonzac's "Une Blu
colique." study OF nudes from witch
one would omit the "bu." and the I'm
provization" of NJ. Wassily kandinsky.
which reminds us Of nothing so much
as OF some fragments of refuse thrown
out of a butchers shop upon bit OF
canvas. To say of Mime. Jacqueline
Marvars "Odalisques au Miroir' that
the nude figures I'm II look like so many
wax dolls badly drawn. To note the re-
semblance between NJ. Georges Rou-
aults study of a nude woman and a
bunch of overripe plums. is surely not
to indicate any really interesting artls-
tic development. To go step by step
through the long list would be a weari-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23
Matisse and the Power of
Check.

II was once said of young fellow
who thought n little too well of him
self that he couldn't have been born
with his check; he must have ac-
quircd il. IT is not credible that Ma
tisse has not known just what he was
that the man had some academic abil-
ity, and IL is easy to believe that once
at all events, he knew how to draw.
Vaguely, beneath what is monstrous in
the paintings by him in this exhibition,
one discerns the grasp upon form and
movement which a man has when he
has been trained in the rudiments and
has used his eyes. But first going after
some will o. the wisp leading him into
ways of wanton ugliness, and then. we
infer, persuading himself that he had "A
mission" Matisse has proceeded to
paint his nudes and his studies of still
life not with the naivete Of a child, but
with the forced simplicity of an adult
playing "A trick. In the process he
would appear to have relinquished all
respect for technique. all feeling for his
medium, To have been content to daub
his canvas with linear and tonal
coarseness The Dubious, contorted
bodies in his figure pieces are i'm no
wise expressive Of any new and ration
allied canon of form. They are false
To nature. they are ugly as the hating
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23
this occasion, and the reader who be-
gins by grasping that fact Will save
himself lot Of trouble.
Some Misconceptions to Throw
Overheard.

Everybody, it appears. is talking
about ost-Impressionism and Cubism
People have been talking and writing
about these things for some time. We
have no intention Of winnowing the
harvest Of announcements for or
against the artist concerned, but there
are one or two points on which 1t is
legit'ma and even perhaps desirable
TO pause. There are misconceptions
which it is proper to discount in adj
vance. There is one, for example,
which is risked in the catalogue TO the
show. AS we have repeatedly men
toned with warm approval. Mr.. Arthur
&. Davies. speaking for the AssOcid-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23

ton Of American Painters and Sculpt-
ors. made a public statement last De-
cember in which he explained the disin-
terested purpose followed by himself and
his colleagues. Nothing could have been
more commendable, but when the cata-
seems, had to write n preface, and this
task being put in the hands of Mr.. +.
]. Gregg, he evidently could not for the
life Of him, let well enough alone Re-
printing the statement aforesaid he adds
some general remarks, and among them
this one: THE foreign paintings and
sculptures here shown are regarded by
the committee of the association as OK
pressive of the forces which have been
at work abroad of late, forces Uhich
cannot be ignored because they haze
had results" The italics are ours.
Why, we wonder, must Mr.. Gregg raise
an issue and compel us to remind him
that a bull In a china shop Is produc
tive of results? In any case it is hard
ly for him to say whether the forces"
in question can or cannot be Ignored,
and in saying this we offer no disre-
spect to him or TO his opinion but pro-
test against tacit coercion where
coercion was by the association ex-
pressly disclaimed.
Another straw to show which way
the wind is blowing in some quarters
we have found in an article by Mr..
Hutchins Hapgood, in THE Globe" on
what he observed at the press view last
Sunday II never heard crowd of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23
Vincent Van Gogh and His
Crudities.

With Vincent Van Gogh, the Dutch
painter whose mind gave way and who
died by his own hand. we are still more
or less in the sphere of simple impress
sionism, but in his technique he di-
verges a little into paths Of his own,
using a heavy impasto and handling
his color In masses. He continues
Monets theory of light, but in his
treatment Of form he has nothing #
that masters skill. His figures. like
his flowers or his trees. are bruta.ly
painted. Perhaps the best piece of his
in this exhibition is the landscape
called Moulin de Montmartrc.' II Is
a simple impression of nature, ii ton-
tains good light and color and the
style, or, rather, the slow, solid method
of laying on the paint, makes the work
amusing TO the student of technique.
There is here. too, "A study Of popp'cS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23
The Post-ImpressioniSt and
CubiSt VagarleS.
ana

There is so much that is good in the
huge international exhibition of modern
art which the Association of American
Painters and Sculptors is holding at the
Goth Regiment Armory that it seems
pity to be delayed on the way to it by
a quantity of merely freakish material
1t is perhaps as well, however, to do
away at the outset with the stuff that
cumbers the ground, and accordingly
we return to-day to a closer cOnsidera-
ton of the subject than was possible
in the preliminary survey of the show
printed in The Tribune last Monday.
The temptation is the stronger, too, in
asmuch as il seems worth while TO op-
pose a little common sense to the
"gush" that has promptly set in. There
is nothing at all mysterious about the
new art" that is placed before us on
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23

ton is. Does he know how 10 paint?
The answer. if not absolutely IN tne
negative is hardly more encouraging.
He. like Paul Ctzanne and Van Gogh
interested himself I'm landscape ana In
form. and he brought to the treatment
Of them some technical aptitude. some
sense Of color. But he did not COM
pletc his education. There u.s. We m
sist once more. nothing mysterious
here. Gauguin is nothing more or less
than the mediocre technician, trying 10
do something which he cannot quite
accomplish. or course. he has pas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23

will take the pains to approach the
subject with some system, looking first
at the examples here of lmpressionism
as it was understood by Manet, Monet
and their circle. 1t is not alone famil-
iarity with the works of those men
which will make him feel at peace in
their presence. He will see at once
that, while they changed their manner
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23
Gauguin, a Case of Arrested
DEVELOPMENT.

Gaugun is in practically the sarae
case. The point to remember here. too,
gums adventures In the South Sea ISL
ands or elsewhere, with his more or
less elaborated principles" with any
movement" to which he has given I'M
petus, or with any of the high-erccted
thoughts" that some Of the critics
have had about him. The bald ques-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-02-23
The Intellectual Struggles of
Paul Cezanne.

We have said that there is no mys-
terry about Post-lmpressionism and the
like. The student will realize this if he
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-07-24

is found, the memories of many people
who, in these later days. have be
come widely known characters.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-07-24
STATE NEWS

Scotland--Frank Harris, q young
man 20 years of age, who has been
working at Memo, was drowned in
the Jim river just below the dam al
the Maxwell Mennonite mill last
sunday. He was bathing with some
companions and apparently was taken
with cramps and sank before his com
panions could rescue him. The re
mains we're taken to Armour. the home
of mis- parents, for burial.
Custer-Reports received here from
Pass creek and the southwestern por.
tion Of Custer county are to the effect
that grasshoppers have appeared there
in countless numbers and are destroy.
ing growing crops and grass. They
are supposed to be a part of the swarm
Of millions Of hoppers which appeared
early in the season in New Mexico and
worked their way northward to some
sections Of Kansas and western Nebras.
ks.
Winner-A street wedding which ut.
tracted considerable attention occurred
in Winner. u. s. Crowde-, pastor oil
the Methodist Episcopal church. united
in marriage Charles Owl. OF st.
Charles, s. D.. and Miss Lousie Hawk
Wing. OF DIXON. s.. d. The wedding
took place in front Of the court HOUSE
in the presence Of about so of theii
white friends. Gene Guertin acted
~ hest man and Miss Olive Pitchford
was bridesmaid.
Yankton-News has reached here
from Chicago OF the death Of DR.. James
+. CTavsns, formerly a prominent
citizen VI Yankton. In the 7O's Dr..
Cravena VA Indian p~hysician Il
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-07-24
LAKE LAND
Judge Smith Holds Hearing
About Ownership of
Red Lake

Chamberlain July 24.-Judge Frank
Smith held court here last week for a
bearing relative to the ownership of
Red Lake. By a large majority OF the
voters Of Brule county at the general
election last fall it was voted to put
down srtesian wells sufficient to fll
this large lake. But a protest was at
once made by the adjoining land own
ers and it now looks as IL the adjacent
land owners will secure the title to
this land, the same as the did
to the large tract of lake bed land in
Sanborn county and which has recent
LIZ been ditched ont and made tillable.
The government made the vital mis-
take on all meandered streams and
lakes in this part Of the northwest
that provision was not reserved along
the shore granting the privilege to
anchor boats, to build cottages and
at the very best TO provide with water
If necessary to protect fish that may be
suffering for water in these lake bede.
As our law now stands no n has the
right to fish along the banks Of ouI
lakes and streams except at the section
lines, although these waters may be
stocked with fish at q governments
expense. Red lake has now been dry
for six years. and is being used as
grazing lands.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-07-24

One Eye Picked Out ~ He Tried d
Protect Sister.

One Eye Picked Out ~ He Tried e
Protect Sister.
South Norwalk, C0nn.-Mabel, the
four-year old daughter OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Griever Lent Of this place. was
knocked down by q rooster, and her
brother Victor, one year her senior.
who went to her rescue, had one eye
picked out and the other one seriously
injured.
Mabel had gone to collect eggs In the
hennery when the rooster, a large
Plymouth Rock, bounced on her and
bore her to the ground. The ROSTERS
spurs ~lacerated her arms and legs. and
she cried out In pain. Had she not
held her arm over her face she might
have Jared the same as did her brother.
Her creams brought Victor to her
side. He attempted to fight the roost-
er, only to be knocked down and Sc
riously injured. The children's parents
hurried to the scene The father chop
ped OF the head Of the rooster and
threw him In the river.
Physicians hope to save victor's
right eye, but the left II gone entirely.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-07-24

death a notary produced his win, writ
ten entirely by himself on crested pa
per, dated 1908, which said:
II leave all my property as well as
my titles of nobility and dignities Of
nobility to the present king of Spain"
The sister Of the man, disinherited
by her brother as she had been by
her father, wrote a respectful letter
to King Alfonso, giving her reasons
for believing her brother not fit to
make a will, but the king took the
usual steps to entering into possession
Of an Inheritance, ~whereupon Nine.
Sacaze brought an action to upset the
win.
M. Maurice Bernard appeared for
King Alfonso in the action brought by
Nine. Sacaze. He began with In ap-
peal to Alfonso's great popularity In
France, making a vague promise as
to the use the young king would make
Of his inheritance.
IF the young sovereign, whose gen.
erosity, elegance and chivalrous grace
have charmed all France, has taken
his present attitude In this case," he
said, 1T Is no doubt because he has
found a new opportunity for one of
those acts which reach the hearts of
peoples and win allow him to give a
proof, here in Luchon, of the attach
ment which never ceases to bind him
to France"
The lawyer said he was not at lib
erty to speak more plainly, but it is
understood that he referred to the es-
adjustment Of some charitable foun-
dalton of which King Alfonso has long
thought.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-07-24
ALFONSO FIGHTS
FOR BIC FORTUNE
100000 Left to Spanish
Monarch by a LunatiC.
RELATIVE CONTESTS WILL.

King of Spain Accepted Legacy, and
Girl, Disinherited by Her Insane
Brother, Starts Action-Dead Man
Had Many PeeuIiarities.
Parts.-As a man with an expensive
position to keep up, a fixed income and
a steadily increasing family, King AL
fonso XIII Of Spain, no doubt, argues
that 1t would be ridiculous to surren-
der a bequest Of some $4,000 merely
because the man who has left 1t to
him died In a lunatic asylum.
NJ. Sapene, the father of the alleged
iunatic, was a wealthy Paris printer,
who died In 1888, disinheriting his
daughter. Nine. Sacaze, to the benefit
of his son Albert The son sold the
business and returned to the Luchon
district, where he led a life of gayety.
He fell In love with a country girl,
and when she died in 1907, he gave her
the grandest funeral he could and
placed her remains in the family vault.
He learned some months later that she
had not always shown that fidelity to
him that he had believed, sc he had
her body exhumed and placed In a
much more humble tomb.
He suffered from persecution mania,
believing enemies were on his track
on every side. He wrote innumerable
letters d~enouncing these enemies. Over
5000 were addressed to the mayor Of
Observation-Disclosures In a year.
Twenty-seven arrived one morning.
His condition became such that he
was placed in a lunatic asylum In
1909, where he died In 1911. After his