The sun., 1919-03-23

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Of equal dignity ana Importance and
to receive a more equal attention.
Fifth-The employment of a paid
secretary outside the profession.
Sixth-A fostering Of technical in
vestigation. The manufacturers of
artists materials to be held account
able and their products o KID by the
academy experts. A legal bureau TO
take care of the interests of artists
generally In relation to the Govern
ment. A department to care for and
insist upon the proper handling and
display of works OF art, by handlers.
express companies and galleries, pub
lie and private.
Seventh-The imperative necessity
for enlarged quarters.
Standardization in some form
within the board OF control. Possible
use of the bloc system.
Ninth-A greater openness in the
affairs of the academy. both as to
business activities and art activities.
Tenth--An effort at a larger national
and less local character for the acad-
envy.
Eleventh-Makirg elastic the pro-
portion OF painters, sculptors, archi-
tects. draughtsmen. &c.
neutrality-suspicious. Of the acad-
envy schools.
Ffnally-Considerat Of any other
means for increasing the loyalty and
enthusiasm of the whole body toward
the academy and the interests of
American art in general.
At recent gathering of some fifty
or sixty members whose names are ap-
pended herewith II was very generally
felt that the crux OF the whole situa-
ton lies in a change in the jury sys-
tenn. That with a real and vital change
in this matter the other changes
would either be entailed or stimulated
Into existence. An aroused spirit
would carry in it's train no end OF
beneficial changes. 1t was felt that
tho way 10 insure an charging OF
facilities and power was TO insure a
healthy present position from which
growth would follow with inevitable
surety.
on FIRST proposition. and without
argument. il was decided by a pre-
ponderant majority of those present
+, that the substitution of the principle Of
proportional representation for ma
jority rule was greatly to DO desired.
, After. however. the case had been pre-
sented and a mechanism and working
plan considered. IL was unanimously
decided that such n plan should be
most thoroughly considered by the
whole body of the academy and. II
, desired, put into at least experimental
Wnr king order III
In order then that the full opinions
g of all may be focused on this particu-
/, lar matter. you are asked either TO
o. n, the following plan of procedure
In the selection OF works of art or 10
, attend a special general meeting the
date and place of which will be sent TO
you later.
!. Proportional representation means
Just this: That instead OF the ordinary
, method of accepting and rejecting
works OF art by a haphazard. careless
irresponsible majority. that each mem
Der and associate of the Academy is 10
bear and TO have his exact share. no
. mere and no less, in the opinion which
goes to make up the exhibitions. That
o instead of exhibitions made up Of a few
A works which please everybody, few
. which please the ma Jority and a great
many which please nos~<, very much
Z but are just of a character acceptable
, enough 10 get by-that instead OF this
a those works which please immensely
o the minority may have that proportion
n OH the walls OF the exhibition which
Il their proponents represent as n pro-
portion within the body OF the Acad.
envy.
II Proportional representation means
$ that each member and associate shall
d become a responsible authority with an
: important duty to perform. That nc
= member shall have any more real voice
I tlran another. That no one shall be
: expected, asked or required to do more
t work or have more responsibility thar
h another. That no one shall be entitled
d through a consensus of opinion L
Z have a greater place than another
s And that each man can rest In the as.
sured right of gaining a hearing both
t for himself and the things he believes
: in most.
- Proportional representation makes
{ for variety and variety is the spice OF
Il both life and art. II puts an end &c
/ that which has no place In art, the die.
= tation of ma orities.
4 Those who find themselves In agree,
r ment with large body OF opinion viii
= find that opinion largely reflected by
the lest examples on the walls of tho
. exhibitions. while those of smallei
! family OF persuasion Wal find smalle,
family OF their best examples alsc
0 equally well presented to the public.
( Granting then the rightness Of thess
advantages, many OF us have found
> perfectly feasible the following nnan.
| ner Of putting these principles ints
! effect and you are therefore asked
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