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CANTON, March 3rd. OUTRAGE ON BRITISH CONSUL IN WUCHÓW,"
The British Consul General in Shameen, who recently went to Wuchow to investi gate the assault committed by Kwangai troups upon the British Consal and the | British constable there, roturned to Can- ton yesterday accompanied by both the Wuchow Consul and the constable. The Consul General has notified the Military Government that the assault was com
mitted owing to a misapprehension, but
that the results are serious. The con
"THE APPRECIATION OF of art in the mere recording of facts when
PICTURES.'?
he saya If by chance the English INTERESTING LECTURE BY MRS. artist does occasionally cramps from the vice of subject for the subject's sake, he MOPHERSON.
almost invariably slips into what I call the derivative vicos-exactness of com Lume, truth of effect and local colour. Tolstoi says there are four kinds of coun- which are not real art. tericit art "Artists incapable of real art have de vised methods of producing initations of
art."
But whilst we recognise that the paint! ing of photographic detail is a hindrance to art when it is an end in itself and used either to interest people in the sub-
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Mr J. L. McPherson, one of the most talented artists in the Colony, delivered a lecture last evening on the "Apprasia tion of Pictures" at the Helena May Institute. Mr. C. Thorne presided.
In the course of her address, which was interspersed with special references to a number of atadice of some of the best known pictares, Mrs, McPherson said:--- We all know the man who, when asked about pictures, says "I am a plain man, I don't know anything about are with a stable was severely wounded and the capital A, but I know what I like."ject of the picture, or to show the artist's exact reproduction of detail may still be Conal's wife is auffering from the effects There is an air of stolidity about such a dexterity, we must remember that the waed if it is used solely to express the of shock. They must be sent to England man-ho is satirely content with his un- for medical attention at the expense of affected position, he implies that nothing the Kwangsi. Government
gan move him, that he does not desire to The Consal-General added also that 21 know anything about Art, that bis guns must be fired to salute the "Unionpinion of any picture is the opinion of
and regret expressed by the all sensible men. Wachow authorities. Regarding the what kind of a picture such a man likes, entry of British soldiers from a Britishbone generally finds:--(n) that he likes gunboat, into the Defence Commissioner's pictures which remind him of something most Western art; idea of form andtion to sell by Publio Auction,
Jack"
If one seeks to discover
idea of feeling of the picture. The home- ly details of the Dutch interior do not distract our attention from the idea of the picture of which they are a part.
Ideas conveyed by pictures are of two kinds :-ideas of form and colour with spiritual or human significance, as is
colour, without spiritual or human signi. ficance, as in all Easters and much West ern art. If you cannot receive the idea of a picture, or appreciate the perfection or the imperfection of its expression, if
yamen in Wuchow, the Consul General
or some place which he has seen, especial regards this action as illegal and hae:
ly such as remind him of some adventur expressed big regret accordingly. We are
ons or sentimental passage in his life informed that the Military Government
(b) that he likes pictures which tell a hag instructed the Wuchow authorities to
story, such as Latke Filde's "The Doctor " comply with the Consul-General's de-(e) that he likes pictures with a pretty you see nothing in a picture of which you colouring (d) that he likes beautiful do not know the title, if you must have faces, graceful figures, luxurious farnish-
a story to be interested, if, like the man inge he likes to see in pictures what he who knows nothing about art, you need BOCs in life.
an interest outside the picture, such as The art of painting, like all other arts, its resemblance to something in your own
mands without delay,
THE INTERNAL PEACE CONFERENCE,
A message from Shanghai states that the Peace Conference was not resumed on Feb. 28th. The Northern" peace envoys,
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TO-DAY (TUESDAY), March 4th, 1919, commencing at 2.30 P.M., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Dos Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street, À QUANTITY OF
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who requested the Peking Government to is for the expression of ideas or feelings life, then it does not mean that you have USEFUL HOUSEHOLD LINENS, DRAWN and the more perfect the relationships no artistic sense, it means that your artis. between the expression and the idea, the tie education has been wrong. more perfect the art. The joy of art is two-fold--it is in the perception of the idea, and it is in the appreciation of the perfect relationship between the idea and its expression.
order the Northern troops to stop fighting in Shenei, have received no reply and they tendered their resignations to the Peking Government yesterday."
Tong Shiu-yi has adnouheed that, unless the Peking Government 'will ex plain the Shensi troubles within 48 hours, he will nek the Powers to give judgments on the mutter, "MILITARY AKFAÍNS.
next offensive.
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Up to recent years schools did their' best, systematically, to kill the artistic sense of children. I myself have seen in this Colony a drawing by a child which came nearer to genius than anything I The lecturer then referred to the three have seen here, returned by the school- great representatives of three school teacher Jabelled dirty and untidy." teaching about Art-Ruskin, George What chance has the artistic expression
and Tolstoi. Bukin, who As the Shanghai Conference has been Moore
of little children under the handicap of Each child; upon Whistler's art ng suspended, the Military Government has looked
eleanliness and tidiness? ordered all the leaders to prepare for the pot of paing dung in the
whose achool life crushes his artistic sense Those leaders who had of the public, says: "The greatest
and fails to train his artistic ability (and) already come to Canton have been ordered picture is that which conveys to the mind this is something very different from of the spectator the greatest number of training his fingers to hold the pencil Commander Li Lich-kwan, the Chief the greatest ideas
and I call and brush) each child who suffers this, Adviser to the Military, Government, an idea grest in proportion as it
loses the joy of artistic expression, the Freceived by a higher faculty of the mind, joy of the appreciation of art, and the resigned.
as it more fully cocupica, and in occupy added intelligence which comes with the ing, exorcises and exalts the faculty by development of any faculty of mind. The which it is received. If this be the defininower systems of teaching drawing pre- tion of great art, that of the great artist supposes the presence of artistic ability Be in the greatest of some kind in every child, and the naturally follows: artist who kus embodied, in the sum of results are astounding. his works, the greatest number of the In our appreciation of the relation he greatest ideas." "That sounds all tween expression and idea there are one
to return to the front.
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HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctioneers. Hongkong, February 27th, 1919, TO-DAY (TUESDAY), March 4th, 1910, commencing at 2.30 r., at their Sales Rooms, No. 8, Dos Youx Road, Corner of Ice House Street,
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shareholders, the following distribution right," said the lecturer, "until you get or two points we might notice. (a) Dis. Stoves, Catlery, 4, Bath Room Utensile, -!"
of the profits for the past year, vit
To pay a final dividend of $2.50 per shere and a bonus of $7 per share, making $12 per share for the year 1916. To write of buildings and
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SPORT. BILLIARDS,
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Electric Reading Lampe, Blackwood and to the end, and then you are appalled by trust the pictures which tell a story with
Teakwood Screens, & quantity of Blackwood the extraordinary stupidity of the per-photographic detail, unless the detail has Furniture, including Large Blackwood fectly, logical conclusion. The sum of bis decorative value. (b) Look for the cer Screen Blue and white Panels, and Black works the greatest number of ideas-then tainty of touch in the expression. The wood Firo Screen, Side Tables, Chair
second-hand. Cooper bas, a
for he artist knows what he intends to do and Cabinete, Pictures, Several Carpets, ne
Thera $605,334.67 painted until he was good chance, for he artist knows what he intends to
In dealing with George Moore, the must be certainty and freedom, or the
Troedle Sewing Machine (nearly now) by 600,000.00 lecturer said that that teacher's definition expression of the ides will be faulty and Willcox & Gibbe with all accessories, 1 Pieno 80,000.00 was “Art is surely but a series of con: obscure. (c) In judging purely decor in good condition, and one large loe Chest
suitable for Hotel 700,000.00 ventions which enable us to express our tive art consider whether the picture or
(Full Particulars from Catalogue). N! special ernes of beauty for beauty is decorated surface, considered as a mere
Terms:-Carb everywhere and abounds in subtle mani collection of lines and colours, is pleasing
HUGHES & HOUGH, festations. Things ngly in themselves be to the eye. I have been told that one
Auctioneers 2 come beautiful by association, or perhaps ought to consider the use to which the
Hongkong, February 2765, 1919. I should say that they become pictures decoration will be put and make the sub- que According to George Moore, said jest suitable to the use.
OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE COLONY. Interest is increasing in the tourné ment for the billiard championship of in progress at the the Colony, now V.R:0. Only two more matches remain to bo played in the second round.
The matches in the third round are as follows
Merab 5th-P. H. Yvanovich e. E. B.
Green.
March 8th:-K, K. Leung v. the win nor of the Higashide-Black match March 7th:-W. R. Neighbour v. the winner of the Gray-Drummond
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OÁ THURSDAY, March 6th, 1918, at 11 AM, at their Sales Rooms, No. & Des Voeux Road, Corner of Ice House Street, SEVERAL LENGTHS BLUE SERGE (good quality)
to be sold without reserve.
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the lecturer, beauty is all that we have to Finally, what is the value of art look for. But is it so simple after all? Tolstoi says it unites men:-"Art is not, What is beauty Don't we differ in our as the metaphysicians say, the manifesta- of what is beautiful and whit tion of some mysterious idea of beauty, conceptiona
or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physio is not,
It has come to me with a kind of revela logista say, à game in which man lets off tion, said Mrs. McPherson, how right his excess of stored-up energy; it is not Tolstoi is about art. He says "To evoke the expression of man's emotions by ex- in eneself a feeling one has once experi ternal signs; it is not the production of enced, and having evoked it in oneself, pleasing objects; and, above all, it is hot then by means of movements, lines, pleasure; but it is a means of union coloure, connde or forms expressed in among men, joining them together in the words, so to transmit that feeling that same feelings, and indispensable for the sale, others may experience the same feeling life and progress towards the well-being this is the activity of art. Art in a individuals and of humanity.! human activity, consisting in this, that Thanks to man'g capacity to be infected one man consciously, by means of cer with the feeling of others by means of tain external signs, hands on to other art, all that is being lived through by. foolings he has lived through that other his contemporaries is accessible to him, people are infected by these foolings, and as well as the feelings experienced by men March
thousands of yours ago, and he has also also experience them.”
Do we need to have any special train the possibility of transmitting his own March 10th Parkes . E. Guíing to appreciate fine art Tolstoi feelings to others. If people lacked this would say no, The capacity to receive the thoughts conceived reception of an idea or feeling of a by the men, who preceded them, and to great picture needs no special train pass on to others their own thoughts, men ing, though it needs
in my own lacked this other capacity of being infect training; but the consorce of wrong would be like wild beasts. And if mon explanation of art, the appreciation of ad by art people might be almost more the perfection of them by which the savage still, and, above all, more separat idea of feeling is expressed, this requires ad from, and more hostile to, one another. A special training the training given by And therefore the activity of art is in most the exercise of one's own artistic ability important one, as important as the motivi and artistic ability of some kind is ty of speech itself, and as generally Taberent in every human being. What diffused. you want of technique in that it shall be perfectly adapted to the special idea or feeling of the artist
match
maraes.
LAST NIGHT'S PLAY,
At
влуд
no
8. Gray met Bergh Drummond, at the V.R.O., last night, and the game prove to be one of the finest played so far. one stage of the game Drummond over 100 points ahead of Gray. The latter, soon after, made a pretty break of 13, and, for a short time, it was di oult to say what tho ultimate rosuls would
However much Ruskin, Moore and Gray, b waful and well-judged Telstol disagree about art they agree play, brough seorg up to 302, when about one thing, that imitation of nature, his opponents was 291. Drammond, the exact reproduction of facta about thanks to the lecturer, hoped that Mr. however, took advantage of an opening nature ly not art. Ruskin is the least MoPherson would print the lecture tin loft by Gray and won by 8 points. decided about the agresy thus it is pamphlet form, its helpful value to all On Wednesday, P. A. Ivanovich meets, art, but sapsilib is a poor, and contemp-st interested in art could not be doubt Capt. E, B. Green
tible art Moore commentach the lick The thinks were heartily accorded.
The
Concluding,
ing the lecturor said :—And today, at the end of the groat war we are mare than ever ready to believe in the value of that which unites men in women motherhood.
Mr. Thorne, in proposing a vote of
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