The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-08-16

Doctor Frank
CRANES
Daily Article
Copyright. 1870
Let Dead Bury Dead.
Art Is Alive.
Our Greek Heritage.
What VIII We Leave?

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When some ono asked George
Gray Barnard why he brought to
this country the beautiful ninth cen.
tuyy marble cloiater that he unearth.
I'D In farm yards In the South OF
France and set IL up near his studio
on Washington Heights. he said:
ITO teach tho young artists Of
America not TO DO Gothic"
II seems Htrange.in the faos Of his
love for tho things which ono feels
with n thrill as he passes his sculp
tors thumb over tho surfaces OF the
carved capitals.
Bul ho means this--Gotfic art II
dead. Lot ~ remain dead. as- the
beautiful expression OF the age that
created it---which In also dead. Why
direct tho genius of the twentieth
century, Art Is alive. The vision
OF twentieth century artists IN not
projected on Gothic lines. They do
not ''bolong." The very science OF
Gothio--a method OF enclosing space
by n system OF arches and thrusts
and balanoss-ls foreign 10 us. We
enclose space In a steel frame. There
Ia no reason ia everlasting a Costory
office building with art forms that
have no essential purpose Ia the
structure. IL Is inherently mean.
inFiens and insincere and we cannot
look on them and find them bcauti.
full.
In colonial Domestic architecture.
and In the buildings OF n certain
group OF artists on TN. western des-
ert. ws have achieved some orig.
inaiity. but how littiel
In sculpture we have broken away
a little from ciaseic forms. phidias
found beauty In human life about
him. But we do not live In the
days OF Phidlas--afd there In beauty
about un. Let the sculptor look on
a group OF mill workers. or a class
Of students In the laboratory. and he
win find all the beauty OF a disc
thrpwer or an Apollo.
In painting II is the sama In our
landscape there is uomsthing 20 call
our own Joseph fcnneli In draw
ing has revealed TO US the beauty Of
docks and derrs:ks and canals and
bargcz and city streets.
But how small part Of the talent
Of America or the resources Of this
fruitful land have been tapped What
infinite possibilities for creating ncw
beauty that tn our owf. and how
we cling 10 the ways of our fathers
Greek art and Renaissance art IL
the expression Of tboeo axes In rarr
beauty. IL is something handed
down thru the years for us TO admire
and adore. A thousand years altar.
no fall down before Il
And vsy What are we leaving 30
future Axcsf What record IN beauty
are ws bequeaihing - . gift from
this wonderuwi agef
Al n alive. Ar did not ale vhen
scientists and invcnton wcrs born
into the world The word of God did
not die on the cro@
The great artiss Of today ought
70 utter tho divine Logus Of today.
not the Word TO the Middle Ages
nor TO ancient Greco. For art. After
ali. II not rclfcxpression. but tho en-
prrrsson Of tho zeitgeist In us-our
touch with the universal
Edward Howard Grigxr says: art
can have no higher function than
in. srgnsfiKur'nr tn. life OF tho mo-
ment Art In for nfe's sake"
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oaii n: Horse Carr n you think
u would sound any better. Every
body knows THERE'S . horse on some
body anyway. 10 I suppose It's Just
an well To say nothing about the
horse4 You know how easy IL u TO
got n ioaer sore.
STREET CARS
The old Mnny cars mako . din
Like n 1871. I.ixric Of Tin.
And the taxpayer hollerS
Over trn thousand dollars
Dug up TO SEQ how bad we're
skinned =, -. -.
+. S.--About that, the wife n Us.
ING tho laundry now putting up fruit
and I haven't done any laboratory
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would get next, and she knows too
much now.
She found out all about my
brothcr-in-law and Helen caught her
telling the iceman. She just stepped
on the back porch and heard her say.
They fined him $3.50" And the
chump OF an iccnian let the Ice fall
In the box and broke two bottles |
was saving for next Sunday. or
milk Yrs
POM roAfERLY.
II takes an kind OF people TO make
the world. Some battle for n chance
to see Doug and Mary and others
take a trip to Vancouver.
Postal officials arr talking OF
using faster boats TO carry the mails
That will make IL possible TO hold
mail q little longer In the post.
offices.
Let's eat breakfast at Boldt's."-
Adv.
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