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Page 47
JOE
It isn't only what you call the "younger Frenchmen and Russians" who are
learning how to paint--the modern movement has spread all over.
MR. WENTWORTH
Of course, I don't pretend to be an artist myself, but I have always
studied and loved pictures, and when you say "learning _how_ to paint"--
JOE
That's exactly what it is. Learning _how_ to paint. Learning what art is.
Getting _life_ into it instead of abstract ideas.
MR. WENTWORTH
Art? But art is beauty! Eternal beauty. You can't change art over night,
like a fashion!
SILVIA
But that picture's beautiful!
JOE
Art changes as life changes. Art has always changed. If it didn't, why
isn't your Japanese art just like Greek art? And Greek art like the
Italian?
MR. WENTWORTH
Oh, in that way, of course. But all the great masters obey the eternal
laws of beauty!
JOE
There aren't any eternal _laws_ of beauty! There's only the eternal
impulse to create. Every artist has to express himself in his own way.
What you call the "eternal laws" are merely the particular expressions
your own favorite painters happened to work out in their time. If they had
lived in another time--
MR. WENTWORTH
A master would always be a master. There's no change possible in the
vision of the soul.
SILVIA
You see, Mr. Wentworth, what I have learned these last two years from
living among artists is that the painter with an original vision is always
opposed by the schools. That is, at first. But when he wins out, then the
schools merely take over his technic and use it as a club to put down the
next creator. And so it goes.
MR. WENTWORTH
Naturally, the great artist suffers hardship. But if we once admit there
are no _laws_, where are we? Anarchy!
JOE
The laws are contained in the impulses themselves. They come _with_ the
vision, not before it! If any one thinks this modern art is just an easy
way of painting--
SILVIA
Indeed it isn't! Joe works much harder than the students who go to the
schools. Of course, he doesn't paint by the clock.
MR. WENTWORTH
But the Louvre! All those beautiful pictures, those priceless treasures!
What about the Louvre?
JOE
The Louvre? It's a _museum_.
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