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Tiepolo, who made his reputation in the middle of the seventeenth century, is a representative of cleverness in technical decoration and as such is really the first artist to introduce what has come to be known as the modern style...
There are three characteristics of modern decoration which deserve especial attention; the quality of vigor, homogeneousness of decoration, and violent foreshortening. Vigor, which has hardly received its fair share of attention, is a feature of decoration which the ancient artists greatly underrated and by exaggerating the importance of each muscle and member of the human frame greatly diminished the effectiveness of their ensemble. The modern artist has learned that simplicity is the most forcible mode of expressing vigor...
...styles which have developed of late. Formerly there was little choice in the matter of style, but now many a fine interior is completely spoiled by the combination of too many styles. The Hotel de Villi is a famous example of this fault. If homogeneous decoration is desired, the artist should always consider his architect...
Four courses of free public evening lectures on art are to be given this winter, the aim being to add to the historical treatment of art the finished treatment of professional experts. The lecturers will be Messrs. Edwin H. Blashfield, artist and master of decorative art in its highest sense; Thomas Hastings, of the firm of Carrere and Hastings, architects, who are designers-among other large building-of the hotels at St. Augustine, Florida; F. Hopkinson Smith, a noted illustrator for the magazines, and Professor John C. Van Dyke, the art critic and lecturer, of Rutgers College...
...American artist, who is the one person who can realize the artificiality of society, and who is pained by the abnormally practical life, is worthy of the highest admiration...