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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:

THE APPRECIATION OF art the more recording

PICTURES."

LAST NIGHT'S LECTURE

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of facts when the "If by chance the English artist does occasionally escape from the vice of subject for the subject's sake, he almost in- variably slips into what I call Art is an interesting subject to the derivative vices exactness discuss, and when Hra J. L. Me of costume, trath of effect, and Pherson chose this subject for local colour. Tolstoi says thare her lecture at the Halena May are four kinds of counterfeit art Institute, those who fell in love which are not real art. "Artists with her beautiful sketches which incapable of real art have devised

view at were put on

the methods of producing imitations City Hall at the last Exhibition, of art."

them.

it

seized the opportunity of learn- When all is said and done, what ing more about it from one who is the value of art? Tolstoi says has made the subject practicallyArt is not, as the metaphysicians a life study. We need hardly say, the manifestation of some mys remind our readers that Mrserious idea of beauty, or God; it McPherson carried Luff the is not, as the aesthetical physio- highest award at the Sketch

logists say, a game in which man Exhibition in longkong a couple less off his excess of stored-up of months ago. Her lecture at the Institute was, therefore, invested energy; it is not the expression of man's emotious by external with a good deal of interest, and signs; it is not the production of there was a good collection of pleasing objects; and, above all, enthusiasta of picture paintings is not pleasure; but it is a means and those who can appreciate of union among men, joining them good picture even if they are not

together in the saine feelings, ! gilted with the art of painting d indispensable for the life and progress towards the Mrs McPherson had great well-being of individuals scope in the discussion of the sud of humanity..... subject, what is art? Different Thanks to man's capacity to be artists have discussed it in so infected with the feelings of many ways. The art of Ruskin, ethers by means of act, all that Tolstoi, George Moore and other is being lived through by his masters differ so much. These contemporaries, is accessible to master artists disagree as to him, as well as the feelings the nature and end of art experienced by men thousands of The views of these three great years ago, and he has also the representatives of the school of possibility of transmitting his Art are divergent, Raskin says own feelings to others. If people

this "The greatest picture is that which lacked

Capacity to conveys to the mind of the receive the thoughts conceived spectator the greatest number of by the men who preceded them, the greatest ideas

and and to pass on to others their call an ides great in proportion own thoughts, men would be as it is received by a higher like wild beasts. And if men faculty of the mind, as it more lacked this other capacity of fully occupies, and in occupying, being infected by "art, people exercises and exalts the faculty by might be almost more savage which it is received. If this be still, and, above all, more separ- the definition of great art, that of sted from, and more hostile to, 'the great artist naturally follows. one another. And therefore the He is the greatest artist who has activity of art is embodied, in the sum of his important one. as important as works, the greatest number of the activity of speech itself, and the greatest ideas." "That sound as generally diffused." all right" said the lecturer, "antil you get to the end, and then you wrongly educated in art looks in are appalled by the extraordinary stupidity of the perfectly logical pictures for reminders of his own experiences, for stories, for pretty conclusion. The sum of his faces and objects all of which works greatest number of ideas have nothing to do with true art -thea Sidney Cooper has skin, George Moore, and

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in subtle manifestations. Things erectly the technique of the Langkats

picture is attuned to the idea, the Raubs ugly in

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is its expression of the idea. Urals perhaps I should say that they be They must consider whether the

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Idless conveyed it in oneself, then by means of by pictures are of two kinds: movements, lines, colours, sounds 1. ideas of form and colour with or forms expressed in words, so spiritual or human significance, to trausnit that feeling that as in most Western art. 2 Ideas others may experience the same of form and colour without feeling this is the activity of spiritual or humasa sigaficacce, art. Art is a human activity, as in all ancient Eastern art. consisting in this, that one man

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