Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-09
ART AND ARTISTS GET
SLAP in THE FACE
"Bohemia," in Region of Wash
ington Square, Stirred by
"Post Illusionism" Pamphlet
INSANITY CHARGE Anglers
Repressed Indignation May Burst It's
Bounds If Nerzin Shows
Himself

spppose. comrade. that you were before
,.our canvas I'm your studio, painting violent.
iy ON that Cubist effort that was to revo'
i,,tionlze the upper reaches Of Art spell 1t
,,itb a caritaD Imagine your feelings IL
total stranger should uoselessly enter
,our studio. creep up behind YOU touch you
ON the arm and calculate In low ana
\snrewha rogush tone, pardon, please my
intrusion. but a great many Of you fellows
are in the madhousc, yknow Want to
Irarn more about this phase?'
Uoud vou dash your brush to the floor
snd shout bah" at the Phlistine. or would
YOU seize the impudcnt fellow by the scruu
or the neck You would do neither. YOU
would stop In your life work amazed and
shocked II might be pardoned II tears
should well into your eyes Nrt tspell IT
with "a captaD is earnest.
over i'm Bohemia, where the hair that used
f., grow naturally now initiates mattresses
according to the modern trend, excited
roors something in futurist writing) are
being handed heated races. tAnother un.
haclineyed phrascD
About arty artists. some Of them Of the
new school and many of the older move
mcnt, have each received "a pamphlet, en-
titled post Irusonism and Art in the In
sane" The article is by Theodore Il
Hvsop ~ ~. e. NJ. f.. Il. :. I'D date
senior physician Of Bethlehem Royal Hos
pItaD and is labeled "A Reprint from the
Nineteenth Century and After"
AETDOM ALL AGOG
Nothing so exciting has happened in art
dom since feminine as well as masculine
naircuts lcapcd into fashion. Meetings Of
anger are being held nightly along Walnut
street on Washington Square and other
places where artists forcgather Last night
the thing was read 10 an excited throng in
place they call the walnut street Coun-
try club" Here's the way the tract
starts:
or late we have both seen and heard
50 much of t-impressionism in art,
and there appears to be so much doubt
in the public mind as to the real mean
ing and significance Of the works
which have been exhibited and heralded
as indicating the approach Of new
era in art. that the time seems oppor-
tune to discuss the subject of post
illusionism as met with in degeucracy
and tho insane.
Under the head symbolism and Mys-
tcism in Art" comes the following phrase:
Many lunatiCs are mystics and
imagine they perceive unusual rela-
tons among phenomena.
Inside an asylum such renaissance
deludes neither the patients nor their
attendants nor does it provide an eX-
cuse for cSthetiC SuObs to found a
fashion mcritng little else than laugh
ter wrath or contempt The works.
though pitable themselves, are sources
Of scIf-ConETatulation to the artists.
who boast freely as TO their merits and
hidden meanings. They estimate their
value according to their own imagin-
inGs rather than to any mastery OF
form or beauty Of color. The clumsier
the technique the deeper its meaning.
Faulty drawing. deficient color and
general artistic inCapacity stamp such
work as pre-Adamite, eccentric or
insane!
81 wonder" said a brown-oycd lad sitting
10 my latest futuristic work Attic woman
bending over bathtub and muttering to her
self as she finds party on floor below draw
ing all the not water
The pamphlet thunders along about in
sane artists. Once or twice it seems as if
artists on the border line-waiting for the
ambulance, as il were-would be attacked.
But always the madhouse appears In the
quotations IiIgh-thought doings in the
uHereht NfkbrIdes are SuIemnly chron-
lcIed. AT least column Is devoted to ego
. lnanlacs in art.
The insane art critic who scribbles
incOherent nonsense for his fellow
sufferers Is simply to he pitted and
treated as an honest imbecile and not
10 pe punished as a rogue. the insane
aII cII'lG never asks himself what sort
vi pa" Joke Is ihls! Nhat does TINS
"r'ISt want me to heIleNeF
WHO THEY ASK Ts l,EryTNo
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w. No. 'S s,.,"pE s,s,.r" ny narl'S NeHin, VINO says
ne,so ,,ii ',,.'lS l"T l'!.ns al ms own eN-
pemSe ana paying the postage. Mr., Vein |
T.. i,''v,'.'S III ''arE'Hai note tnat II theTe
ho ,,,ad ,'v w @ n"a "Ne'iouNeu. lie "ould |
"Vegir ,7o,;,, Nv, S,i q ~'iS ~ l.ee.
,S SS"'' eau VEIN, ihe nam" Hoated |
Iast mi,,,,t ,t'e ""'.ut street country Cluo |
,vyba ''In[ I., 81. 'ne ,TaCt r hau peeh read |
Wbat ~ Ia9 WI. WI. VINO S,, EYER saw nun