Evening star., 1924-11-14
IN TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT
BY PAUL y. COLLINS.

chairs We should repeal the Declara-
tion Of Independence? The feshpots
! OF Egypt. Is there any art reason
why all quantity production should
F.! be condemned. even in the country
pre-eminent in automobile produc-
uon-so many a minute? Does the
art standard Of table or q vase de-
pend upon doing il by hand-with .
fail in place Of a thTashng machine.
tof course this suggestion is ranE
heresy, but arSwerD Does hand
work insure fine lines? Why not de-
wise an artistic model and let Henry
Ford multiply it-a thousand a min
ute? Reach the masses in their homes
with Chippendale chairs, if the effort
at last is 10 popularize art instead
of enshrouding it in aristocratic ex-
clusiveness and sepulchrating it III
museums?
Suggestion for tomorrow's sympo-
stun:
Resolved: That the modern prime
ing press, with its fine reproductions.
has done more to art-educate the
masses than have the museums"
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The Federation's art chairman FUR
ther discloses the proposed American
renaissance, in stating: Then the
General Federation Art Division Will
this year for the first time begin th.,
work Of getting art into the public
schools OF America. This Will bring
il TO the children of ali citizens OF
the community; it VIII collect that
which is passing out Of the possibility
of collecting, and viii generate in
terest in the living American
painters"
For the first time" Hark to tie
cry. sure to echo, from him who pro-
tests that 'fads" leave no time for
the three RS" But if the fedora
ton has had the courage of its cor
! victions, all through its 80 years. WI )
did 1t let us ''grownups' so through a.
the grades, ignorant that Giotto's Q
was not a cipher?
That fedora ton has n great futur
living down its past Many a print
tive" would have been "modernis.-
II the federation had always been as
art brave as il now promises to be
With higher geometry, some woulG
even learn appreciation of cubism.
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However, with all the Tory regrets
that we have never been artistir
since the tea party, the federations
art champion encourages American
artists with this:
America has not yet discovered
that 1t has good painters. 1t has not
discovered that the American sculp
tors are DOING work that tho entire
art history OF the world has never
done before. j should say
that the great painters in England
number perhaps 12; the great ones
in Spain, maybe 10; the great ones
OF Italy present S; the great ones
of France, Is; the great ones o.
Sweden and Norway, 10. OF that
class in America. l firmly believe v.e
could match man for man as to eN
cellence in standard. I mean that Te
have as many nne painters in the
United States as has all Europe com
bined. But who knows it??'
Here again is revolution, Mrs.
Berry, on behalf OF the federation.
says:
I'VE want to Danish the silver cup
from the face of the earth. and place
in its stead a small bronze or a good
painting. There are lovely things by
our American sculptors. ranging from
$50 TO $500, that could serve in this
way"
Under the eighteenth amendment
is not the silver cup passe? Perhaps
the symposium Will pass It tomor-
row-in debate only. of course.
We hope that the artistic lightness
of this discussion of the federation's
campaign will be recognized as Pick
wickian. Who began the "laughing?"
C'est rire.
Copyright. 1924. by raui v. Collins,