Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-03-05
DISCUSS
ATLOCAL Club

All art is not found in studios
and galleries. Art may be in ar
chitecture, literature, and many
forms of expression, said Mrs. Il.
E. Cole on Friday night at the reg,
uIar meeting of the Fortnightly
Literary club at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. r., B. Griggs. s..
William Morris expressed the re
gret that art has done SO little for
this great treasure of mankind, the
earth which was beautiful before
man lived on it, which for many
years grew in beauty as men grew
in numbers but is now growing Rg-
lier day by day, the most swiftly
where civilization is the mightiest.
Morris expressed the fear that ar
chitecture, sculpture, painting, nlr-
sic and poetry, will become dead
unless the creative impulses be
rightly directed. An authority de-
clares the purpose of life is to ex-
press itself and that art is but one
of the many mediums for personal
expression. It's function is to di :
cover and celebrate beauty and
truth. These treasures are offer
ed by Nature if we will but dis
cover them.
The great sculptor, Rodin, mod
ern of the moderns, in his works
of art tries to reveal subtleties OF
sense and emotion, to give shape
to life's epic oneness but rather to
its dramatic. many7sidedness.
Mrs. Cole discussed the want OF
sympathy and opportunity for those
artistically inclined while students
in the university. Undergraduate
life is humming, really soaring,
with diversions, in which the spirit
of art has no part. There is too
much diversion for the artistically
inclined. She named number OF
authors, among them Aldrich and
Bret Harte, who would have found
life failure in higher institutions
of learning.
The speaker advocated that the
old Noyes home in Baraboo be
preserved, regretted that the Old
Vittum residence had been multi
Dated, and deplored the fact that
some of the beautiful trees at the
library have been ruined.
Art in Literature
In discovering her phase of the
subject, Miss Leila 7. Johnson
spoke of the relation of literature
to art She found that poetry and
music are closely associated, moTe
so than literature and painting.
Miss Johnson pointed out exam
pies of word painting, such as
Whittier's Snow Bound" and the
thirty-ninth chapter of the Book OF
Job. The speaker showed how
with but a few words, an author is
able to make an impression such
! as a painter or sculptor cannot do :
therefore literature is the highest
art
On the humorous side, Miss John
son mentioned a number of writers
who have given cartoon effect in
literature. Charles Dickens was
master hand and as an example
characters in "a Tale of Two Cit
les" were mentioned, also Irying'S
"Ichabod Crane"
The speaker concluded by say
| ing that the real test Of the artist
was his ability to paint portraits
be it on canvas, in prose, or in poe
try.
Mentions Lincoln
In discussion, Miss Johnsonf
father, Franklin Johnson, told o
hearing Abraham Lincoln draw ;
picture of Kentuckian. This
so impressed Mr.. Johnson that
number of years afterward whei
in. Illinois, he met the very me'
whom Lincoln had described. Thu
/ instance was told with much feel
ing and vividness.
Other members in discussing tn
subject spoke Of architects OF tn
present time, making an endeaVo
to create skyscrapers more beau
4 tiful in design. This will be on
of Americas contributions to art.
Mrs. H. j. Sleeps was elected tt
! conduct the reading of a play dur