The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-19
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| Among the well worth while art ex-
I hibitions which people visiting the
I east may see this summer, is the
/ Twenty-first Annual Exhibition of the
Lyme Art association. being held in
the associations beautiful new gall
lery at Lyme, Connecticut. Critics
speak very kindly of this exhibition.
The work shown embraces land
/ scapes, marines. figures, portraits and
animal paintings, and among the
paintings mentioned as being of extra
ordinary merit are Ivan G. Olinsky' S
! portrait, "Lenore in Russian Blouse"
Gregory Smiths Winter Night" and
Ned" Cpainting of a setter dog) by
Percival Rousseau
Among the landscape painters ex-
hibiting are Edward Rock, George
Breustle, Charles Ebert, Gregory
Smith, Clark Voorhees,, William Chad
wick, George Burr, Lawton Parker,
VIII Taylor, Harry. Hoffman, Carlton
Virgins. Wilson Irvine, Charles Vein,
Ann Crane, Everett L. Werner, Frank
Bicknell viii Robinson, Robert
Vonnoh and George Mclaughlin.
Ivan G. Olinsky, VIII Howe Foote
uted interesting figures or portraits,
and there are excellent animal pic
lures by Percival Rousseau, Carlton
Virgins and William Howe.
The August number of Arts and
Decoration contains at least one article
that everybody should read. 1t is the
first article in the Magazine and is en-
titled Art as a Necessity of Every
Day Life" 1t is written by Richard
F. Bach of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York city. If you do
not take Arts and Decoration and are
unable to procure a copy, you can find
one in the reading room of the City
library.
Mr.. Bach points out in a very clear
and convincing way. the absolute i'm
portance of art in even the most COM
monplace daily life of men and women
in every class of society. As he truly
asserts. human beings are happy or
tngs are beautiful or ugly.
The human craving for beauty is
expressed in the adornment of the
home and the person. The office of
curate knowledge of what is beauty
and how to create beauty thru selec-
ton and combination.
Art is not dependent on the size
of the pocketbook, beauty may be
created from things that are both in
expensive and commonplace. Most
people imagine a thing must be expen-
sive to be beautiful. The ma jority of
us imagine that an artist must go to
the mountains or the sea shore o.
some other cut of the way place in
order to find pictures worthy of his
brush. whereas he may see and paint
a wonderful picture from a tumble
down shed and few weeds or bushes
in a neglected city lot.
Mr.. Bach relates how a designer OF
patterns for high grade fabrics toiled
for days at trying to procure de
sign combining both form and color
worthy to adorn a new textile that his
employer was about to manufacture,
but without satisfactory results. While
on his way home one evening he
passed by a pile of decaying. boards
and timbers. Certain peculiar shades
of color in the phosphorescent glow of
the rotting material combined with
delicate shades in some toad stools
growing near the pile of rubbish. gave
him just the chromatic effect that he
was looking for. He fixed in his mind
what he saw, and the next day applied
the color scheme to his drawing. The
result was a design that sold for his
employer thousands of dollars worth
OF goods.
The meaning of this is, teach men
and women TO see beauty in the things
that are around them and within their
grasp.
The more conservative and saner
elements in Partisan art circles is
making a determined effort to save
art from the destruction which threat
ems at the hands of radicals and
fadists
The conservative element believes
that art may be saved from decay