The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-07

Of peace. one is positive, the other
negative"
And art in A~mcrica-wil the war
help that"
Art doesn't need to he helped in
America or anywhere else. Art IL
never on Crutchcs. What art in Amer
lea needs is not assistance and pra Sc
n more committees and organiza-
tion. II wants 70 he Knocked on the
head. There has Beer too much Of
the other; that's the trouble with II.
ANY sculptor IN America found
with y hit Of clay In his hands. any
painter with n brush. any writer with
IA pen. should he arrested and put in
solitary confinement. Then we'd see.
After n month or two we'd begin to
get results.
Tho man who had found his meter
would o. only too glad To find him
self JUST whore he wanted tn he, where
he could work undisturhed. The
other sort-well. with his release we
would stop having cosey corners; we'd
stop Doaring ak about organizations
and committees. Some of tho men
who IN their idle moments had com.
mcnccd 10 mode or paint or write.
Wh"s" friends had pushed over their
amateur work and who with pull and
business methods and friendly attcn-
lions mad got themselves into oNhihi.
tons or on the bookstalls. would drop
out. Then art in America would hc
oott r and cleaner and finer. Give IT
a good Kick. Don't help IL.
Tho old Greeks didn't know any.
thing nhnttf
weren't always crying GU that thar
art was misunderstood They went
riSht ahead. each mar trying To pro.
duce a masterpiece. Later. when
Rome had "A statue for every thirty
citizens, we commence To see graf,
ana organization dominating art. as
II has in every city mat has fol-
owed Rome at her worst.
Take Whistler. lie had knocks
enough but he did a lot for American
art. Winsiow Homer. Sargent. Henry
l'rown-such men have helped with
out bothering whether art was UNDER
stood or not.
Look At those wonderful dccora-
tons of the Louvre by Jean Ton
winch the Germans would have de-.
stroyed II they had succeeded in get
ting into Paris. by mining the CITY
when they went out. tf not with
bombs when they came in. This IL
what they intend to do with Brussels.
| am told.
We'll, Jean Goujon worked when
there was none around him but as.
sassins. no art. no art dealers. no
gushing friends, no men who could
be reached by the right pull. But
his work to-day stands
by architect and artist. His Fountain
OF lnnocenCe'-think Of Paris withou,
that! II is a work hat is SO modern
that any woman might be proud ~
hin she looked like one Of It's
figures. proud to do her hair that way.
proud to be able 10 pose with such
grace.
Jean Coupon never stopped TO do
the eccentric thing. nor have any Of
the great men who have followed in
his footsteps.
Paris is paved with the souls 81
artists, 10 quote some one who knew
whereof he spoke.
Il have been here now ,wentv-six
years. Paris this winter has been
more as it was as | remember II, dur
ing those first years. II has been
very serious. The French people have
always been serious in their work and
their Ife-that IS why ike To STAY
among them, and nov tho seriousness
Is even more evident.
The Germans do not know how 10
visualize. hat - why they have no
art worthy the name. They have ideas.
they have had deep feclings-witncss