The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-16

Out of the horrors of the war Il new
art has been born-~an art which will
save to the world the aerial exploits of
the heroes who have lived and died In
| the skies ever since the summer of
1914, when the Germans first began
their march through Belgium.
| To explain this art to the man or
woman who hugs CLOSE to mother earth
and studies art in all its form from
afar would be difficult task. Just
| how difficult it win be can be realized
| by the statement of Lieutenant Henry
Fare, official painter of the French
army and navy, when he says:
1T was only after five months of
constant flying that | was able to
| transform my way of seeing so as to
paint things with an aerial vision.
| When l first attempted my dutiest
there was something. the one some
| thing which csunted all, lacking in my
work. 1t came only with familiarity
with the clouds above the roaring bat :
tlefront." ..
Now America is to see what Lieu-
tenant Fare saw---not what the ayia-
tor artist saw with his mere eyes when
1
he has seen since he developed what
he calls the aerial vision, which is as
much a sense of feeling as that Of
sight. His pictures of the heroes of
| the air. the battles. the bombardmcn,s.
daring raids by the French aviation
corps and aerial warfare in its every
feature, are to be exhibited here by
permission of the French military au-
thorities.
Lieutenant Fare, who has taken an
active part i'll some of the most re-
markable exploits of the allied aviators
in France and Belgium, has been dec
grated with the war cross for bravery,
and his work has attracted much at
tention in all the capitals of Europe.
when l enlisted at the first cali to
arms said Lieutenant Fare, Il had
two objects in view. First, to help my
country in her hour of need, and sec
ond, TO snatch every spare moment to
put on canvas everything possible per-
tanning to the war
The French war office, however,
soon learned of Lieutenant Fares
work and he was given the rank of
Observer l,ombarder and attached to
the first group Of bombarding squad
rons. where he remained until his re-
cent departure for the United States.
1t was in this position and through
constant touch and association with
his comrades OF the aviation corps
sharing their sufforings and misfor-
tunes, their happiness and their joys
that the birdman- artist has during
more than three years preserved on
canvas for the world and history some
Of the most interesting features of
war that has reached Dat to grasp
practically every nation of the earth.
Every picture he has painted tells its
own story just as that story was told
on the battlefield. There is no imagi-
nation, for imagination was unneces-
sary. No artist living, says Lieuten-
ant Fare, could begin TO imagine the
acts of bravery and the scenes of hor-
ror that have actually occurred in the
theater of war. where Nerdun and the
Marine have been only two places
along hundreds of miles of battle |
ground where a whole heroic nation |
has dripped blood.
To witness these horrors from an OBJ
point on the ground, as one
might view a herd OF cattle or sheen, |
md 10 see 1t from, T. seat in the skikS |
gives an entirely different atmosphGk
TO the whole scene. he explains. ana |
II is this difference he wants the public !
to understand, as we'll as possible, |
when they view the pictures. To those |
who visit the exhibition, he asks that :