The New York herald., 1922-03-19

claims that some other friends make
From his article the following letter
from Thayer is taken. which will inter-
est visitors to the show:
THE violin, whose strings ring when
ever their note is sounded by an out
side instrument, is pure symbol of the
poet. In the poet, cumulative images
of every form OF beauty begin in ear
liest infancy to occupy the brain. till, in
his early maturity. these have become
true touchstones. like the violin strin~.
Ltt the painter once look upon pc
son who has, beneath no matter how
many surface defects. one dominant
Gre reatness-purity at heart and fiery
love of truth and beauty-and In his
own heart the image of such a PERSONAL
ity wakes into brilliant ringing clear
ness and takes the helm. saying:
see. now and then. the being she really
IS (it's a she now y come forth and be
fully in sight.
Watch, then, and take In how she
looks for in those aroused moments
she dominates the whole face and body.
ruling all their details into her heavenly
form Now he who in this way comes
to know her looks, thereafter waits. no
matter how long. When he finds HIM
self at the end OF his last supply he
waits, as IL were. outside her window.
sure that when she once more stands
there in his sight lie viii quickly see
how to go on with his picture OF her
Dear Cortissoz this is absolutely the
way I work. You delineate IL almost
clearly. 1t Is because you see II that
feel could crystallise you little.
Fright you are. alas; the whole trade
of art and literature Is for the time
off the planet. Man, finding himself up
against that (if he knew it, greatest
blessing. the obvious impossibility of
ever understanding existence, will for
ever swing between periods of worship
and periods like our present one. He
Is like frog in tub: he can see the
light and jump up at IL. but never
Jump out. and when he tires OF this he
finds that searching the tubs corners
still offers no escape. So with man, his
epochs OF worship will always be fol-
lowed by n "eriod-such as we are now
somewhere near the end of-of self.
deluding digging. egged on by the ella
tion Of unearthing so many Of the never
before dreamed OF tools that God evil
IDENTIFY uses-gravitation. steam, cleo
tricity, radium. &c.
''In due time man will again tire OF
this hope and again be the simple
worshiping know nothing. His cosmos
theories will forever be on the same
principle as the theories of n worm
Matched In an apple and still In the
apple. might be of the apples external
aspect. The world is now all for what
they call science. and they weigh music,
painting and poetry by what 1t can do
in this field. Or. say, man is child
that awakes, out of the grass. and gazes
,t.g1o M
get about him. till. wider awake. he be-
gins to work them and learn what they
can do. Elated at finding out some
Of the stunts the lightning toy can do
and what the steam one. &C.. he comes
to feel very big and forgets that he
doesn't know and can't, where they
came from. SO. for the time. there low
ers on his horizon no wholesome re-
mindcr that he is forever tthank
heaven) stumped.
THE horrible Nemesis that lies In
wait for this indfvidualism Is the mon
keyfedness OF to-day's craftsmen. OF
old, each apprentice strove merely to
help some beautiful picture to get born
and placed where II would help the
world. and this habit of self-subordina-
tlon attended each Of them in his sub
saouent masteryears. Behold. now. the
yyh,sners creep through the crowd that
SELF must assert itself. and change
begins. growing TIN I. I. ~ See how
well can do itl' has entirely supplanted
see how beautiful 70 L." And then be-
hold these egos all down at the monkey
level.
Like monkeys they have looked. un..
seeing. at their masters service. I'll
they catch up the brush to show that
they can do Il, too. Like the ape. no
longer seeing what this act OF painting
was making, when Gozsoli or Lippi held
the brush. thoy paint and paint None
~ them sees that-@whethre or no II is
something to boast OF to be able to turn
a back somersault. or paint an actually
delusive counterfeit of one more real
shop girl, when there are more than
nienty always 20 be seen wherever YOU
look--it has no resemblance to being
the means OF erecting before mems
sight the crystal type OF any desirable
attribute"