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FUTURIST ART
_Futurist Art_
Which one might worship--if he should wish--without breaking the
second commandment because truly there is nothing like it "in the
heavens above, in the earth beneath or in the waters under the earth."
A painter of the "impressionist" school is now confined in a lunatic
asylum. To all persons who visit him he says, "Look here; this is the
latest masterpiece of my composition." They look, and see nothing but
an expanse of bare canvas. They ask, "What does that represent?"
"That? Why, that represents the passage of the Jews through the Red
Sea."
"Beg pardon, but where is the sea?"
"It has been driven back."
"And where are the Jews?"
"They have crossed over."
"And the Egyptians?"
"Will be here soon. That's the sort of painting I like; simple,
suggestive, and unpretentious."
The artist dipped his brush in a bucket of paint and wiped it across
the canvas several times horizontally. When he had done this he took
his labor in hand and carefully placed it in an elaborate frame.
"What's the idea?" his boon companion inquired.
"Impressionistic study."
"Do you mean to tell me that is a finished painting?"
"Certainly.
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