Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1901 — LEARNING TO LIKE PICTURES. [ARTICLE]

LEARNING TO LIKE PICTURES.

Suggestions from • Non. Professions! Picture Lover. The following suggestions, of you please, are not from an artist, nor even from a the writer being nothing iqore than an ordinary picture lover. In general the principle to he followed is to get as much in an atmosphere of pictures as possible. Always go to museums when you are traveling; and if you live near enough make occasional picture-vis-its to Boston. Chicago or New York. Do not make tin- mistake of staying too long in a gallery; you only tire yourself. Half an hour is quite long enough; hut do not endeavor to look at every picture in the gallery in that time. Look long at a few good ones. And let t hose you look at he t hose you like, or at least those which you prefer above the others. Also ask yourself why you prefer them. Always get a catadogue. Sometimes the pictures are not marked, and you, as a student, want always to know the painter of your picture.—-Frederick if. Smith, in Woman’s Home Companion.