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Identifier: painterspictures00neuh (find matches)
Title: Painters, pictures and the people
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Neuhaus, Eugen, 1879-1963
Subjects: Painting Art
Publisher: San Francisco : Philopolis press
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ay be innocent of choos-ing it, but the title has stuck, and increased onesbias. The Futurist, by reason of this, willalways lay claim to be the latest. I confess he issomewhat obscure to me, not so much in hisaims as in his attainments. I respect his at-tempts, but often have no understanding of theresult. I believe he is as serious as his half-brother the Cubist. Personally, I doubt whetherpsychic emotion can be represented by pictorialformulae. To me, the Diisseldorf painter withhis literary subjects was just as wrong as theFuturist with his effects which might be moresuccessfully approached by literature or music.But it remains to be seen, and we can well affordto wait, since the great majority of painters havedecided to remain within the limitations of theolder schools. The public remains perplexed andmakes no effort to hide its feelings of disap-proval. Why worry over it? Those who saw anew world open up to them when the Futuristsor Post-Impressionists generally held their first
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PORTRAIT OK ELMER S. HADER PLATKXW I From the Oil Painting by 1 . Si BNI I R MACKV CHANGES IN THE AESTHETIC IDEAL 157 studio teas, had no doubt honest intentions ingiving the larger public a chance for observationin public exhibitions. It would have been farbetter if all of those experimental efforts hadremained with their sires. But it was the greatnation above all others willing to be used as anexperimental rabbit which opened its doors tothe new school in a large exhibition in New Yorkin 1913. When one considers that not one infifty people in this country of ours can appre-ciate a conventionally painted picture, this ex-hibition can only be called a futile though a well-meant effort. Our method of bodily transplant-ing the very latest to our shores, when other andolder nations have not yet taken a definite stand,was typified in this Armory exhibition at NewYork in 1913. It is not improbable that our aesthetic idealswill undergo a very radical change within thenext few decades. On t

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