Identifier: artartistsofourt04cook (find matches)
Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ader will, we hope, pardon these details; it isnot useless, once in a while, to take these made-up compositions to pieces and see how they areput together. It is seldom done with skill, and never affords, not even when it is best done,more than a brief satisfaction. Two of the greatest masters in this mosaic-work in our dayare Baron Leys, and Alma Tadema his pupil. Baron Leys wasted great talent and splendidopportunities in painting picture that are already passed into the category of curiosities, andare on their way to neglect and oblivion; and Alma Tadema, with all his skill, Avhich is un-deniably great, can have no enduring hold on those who ask for something more at an artistshands, that the perpetual imitation of things. The other picture by Beyschlag, The Fathers Return, shows him in a somewhat moreagreeable aspect, for though this is really as much a costume-picture as the Baptism—and,indeed, Beyschlag never paints anything else—yet there is here a little more of a story to
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COMING FROM THE BAPTISM. FROM THE PICTURE BY JULIUS BEYSCHLAG ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 211 tell, and more variety of incident. There is a select set of artists at tlie present day who makea great deal of fun over pictures with a story; one Avould think, to hear them talk, and tomark the fine scorn with which they consign the whole tribe to limbo, that pictures with astory were.an invention of modern times, like sewing-machines, railroads, patent cow-milkers,and new-spapers, instead of being as they are, of course, coeval with the art of painting. Thisis such a mere truism, that one would be ashamed to take the time needed to set it down,were it not for the fact we have mentioned that some among our cleverest artists profess tohave found some other reason for painting than to record their observations of nature or theirexperiences of human life. These discoverers talk and write a great deal about technique,and brush-work, values, methods, etc., etc., in a jargon as unintelligible t

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