The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-02

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ntehts TO be expected before 202S.
BY GEORGE GRAY BARNARD,
! Eminent American Sculptor.
lCopyrisht. 1898. By Cosmopolitan News
service.)
NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-Long be-
fore 2023 rolls around the 10000
art students who are graduated
every year from art schools
throughout the United States will,
| I believe, be afforded an oppor-
tunity to practice their art.
At present 80 per cent are over
come in the struggle against con.
ditions, they drift into commerce
and are forgotten.
I look forward to the time when
these young artists. as they come
from the schools, will be put to
work for the different communi-
ties on salaries.
Each community will support an
artist or several artists and IN
return the art created win so to
the community.
II he chooses to depict life In
coal mines In the form Of sculp-
ture, he will, go to q certain mine
for year, 90 below ground with
the miners. study them and work.
To Get WORKER Pay.
He will receive the same pay as
the miners, and his art will be
shown at the entrance tc the mines
and near the mines. He and his
work will be part Of that com.
munity. In the steel mills will
hang pictures revealing life there.
This may sound fantastic, but re.
Gently when outlined the plan to
the vice president OF one of our
largest steel companies he offered
me every inducement to come to his
mills and put the project in opera.
ton.
I refused. The time is not vet
ripe and people are not ready for It.
It should not be done In one place
only, but throughout the land
simultaneously.
It our democracy 10 to mean any
thing the creative forces OF life
must be part Of the daily lives OF
force but now it is often little more
than a rich mans pleasure.
Radical improvements In the
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brought about by 2023. we shall
have learned to teach our children
the meaning Of life.
New Teaching Seen.
The child mind is a beautiful
thing. but II is stunted by present
day education methods. Children
are mis-educated now, they are
taught nothing Of comic conscious
ness. Their sex education il dis.
turted and neglected.
In the future, believe, boys will
be taught the problems Of sex by
women, girls by men.
The moving picture machine, per-
haps modern sciences greatest con-
tribution to education, will be used
to reveal life to children. At present
the moving picture IL largely mis-
used.
In educating children it will be
used not with human actors, but
with nature as the actor. The un-
folding Of buds, the drama of plant
life, the natural life OF animals will
be shown.
Already plans are underway for
building such moving picture thea.
tiers in Philadelphia, New York,
Harrisburg and Pittsburgh.
When . this Is done q start in
the real education Of children will
be made. It il too late to teach
most OF the adult minds the
meaning Of life. The sense of cos.
mic values has been Largely lost by
our race.
Will Reach the Children.
But children can be shown a
flower, as 1t is dissected. That is
the science of chemical analysis,
the revealing Of it's parts. Second
ly, will come the revealing of it's
life through motion pictures, the
setting forth of cosmic conscious
ness. That IL the thing that makes
life possible and makes it 20 on.
Our race is doomed unless we
come to a realization Of this funda-
mental truth. Misdirection in the
use of science and morals is now
running the race. Science has been
used, in part. to destroy and to
produce Industrial machines that
make life monotonous for man.
From mans misdirection comes
cruelty. Art has given us a pic
ture of this in both modern and
ancient times.
The sphinx is no riddle to Il
sculptor. Thousands of lives of
slaves were sacrificed In building
1t; the feeling Of this is in the face,
put there by the ancient artist who
created 1t. The sphinx wears an
expression of tragic revolt.
The truth is man has been ed.
ucated to look after his material
needs and his ego, but there Is no
education to bring man in touch
with cosmic consciousness. There
are individuals. filled with the
flame Of understanding, but they
haven't come together. They
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