But the voice from the canvas more frequently
cries " nature be hanged — but this is impression-
ism."

The little people of impressionism finding it
possible to represent more light than even
nature shows in very many of her aspects,
delight in exhibiting the disparity existing be-
tween nature and, forsooth, impressionism. Thus
we see attempts to "knock out" with these
scientific brass knuckles all those who refuse to
fight with them. The rumpus grows out of the
different attitudes in which nature is approached.
The one, drawn by her beauty, kneels to her,
touching her resplendent garments; the other
grasps her with the mailed hand, bedecking her
with a mantle of his own. The knights wooing
the same mistress are therefore sworn rivals.
For effect, no one can deny that produced by
the savage in war paint and feathers is more
startling than the man wearing the conventional
garb of civilization, or that the stars and stripes
have greater attraction than the modified tones
of a gobelin tapestry or a Persian rug. We put
the flag outside the building but the daily course
of our lives is more easily spent with the tapestry
and rug.
An " impression " ^ among tonal pictures ap-

^The term Impressionism applies entirely to a scheme of
juxtaposed colors and not to the impression of a scene in place of
its actnal rendition, as may be prodnced by tibe artist in mono-
chrome.
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pears as foolish, as a tonal picture among impres-
sions and the sane conclusion is that the at-
tempt to combine them should not be made.
