Evening star., 1923-02-13

When win there be again q renais-
sance Of art? It cannot be claimed
frankly that the fine arts are appre-
ciatsd today as they have been in the
past ages. Yet by all the theories OF
art inspiration, tho great world TRACE
dies. the most tsrrible war OF history.
the upheavai of society. the overturning
OF empires, should make for a reawak-
ening OF deep feeling and emotion and
passion. These. in turn, should inspire
expression in tho language Of the old
masters. Art to them was religious
expression.
haps the most successful landscapist Of
Washington, Lucien w. Powell, mention
was made OF the famous artists of
America OF forty or fifty years ago.
.'Ah, that was when there was fine
art appreciation in America" declared
Mr.. Powell. Chase, Kenyon Cox, Sar-
tain the older, and William Sartain.
De Forest Brush--where are their sue
cessors now? The trouble is in the
spirit OF the ages. 1t has no time for
art. Jazz-jazz! Speed. People have
gone crazy over speed. They want to
ride ride in ausomobiss SO ,, as to go fast:
enough-they will go In airplanes. In
art. the painters want futurist freaks
that mean nothing. They can't inter-
pref their own work. and say what they
are trying to depict"
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How many Washingtonians really ap-
preciate the Turneresque colorist we
have in our capital, Powell's canvases
glow with real sunlight, which carries
the beholder. breathless. outside his own
environment into an atmosphere which
fairly breathes the glory OF sunrise, and
dor OF fcolor-color-color. Yet it would
be hard for any one to feel the protest
made once by a lady. upon seeing
Turner sunset:
BUT; Mr.. Turner. I never see such
Don't you wish you could. madame.-
retorted the great colorist.
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Through the eyes Of q real colorist,
like Powell. nature Is revealed. but It
is sim natural as Hfe itself. The blind
ness Of unculture shuts our eyes to the
beauty which the artist alone 10 capable
Of showing US is actually there.
There is a loan exhibit of PoweIls
at the Carnegie Library. at present
through the kindness Of Mrs. Hender-
son. who is a Chronic" collector of
Powells. There is also another ex-
hibit of his landscapes at the Art
Center, 1106 Come ecticut avenue,
where Lady Geddes wife of the Brit
ish Ambassador. declared last week
she had found more beautiful pic
lures than even Turner had done. And
that is praise from a Britisher.
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A QUESTIONABLE discloses the sur
prising fact that many Of the school
children OF large cities have never
! seen a cow-whether purple" or any
other tint. They are far more fan1il-
lar with the appearance of a giraffe,
| whose very possibility old Uncle Hay
seed denied. than they are with the
animal which chews it's cud, to grind
| up the white fluid which the milk
wagon brings in bottles. Yet the
| keepers of the Philadelphia zoo re-
fuse to install a harmless moo"
among the wild animals. because
| the COW is not classified as wild"
They say that il they put in a COW
| the next thing would be a demand
that they go to market and buy a
fat pig, and that they emulate Mary
and keep q lamb, or tether a goat.
That they think. would spoil the
family harmony OF any quiet peace
able. savage zoo, What applies to the