International studio (61.1917)

Aesthetic Hysteria

FIGURE BY BEN BENN


but have never been able to supply an adequate
substitute. Similarly, there is nothing to replace
a jury. Such bodies are, for the most part, honest
and intelligent people, giving ungrudgingly of
their valuable time, and, for reward, reaping the
disdain of those artists whose work they reject.
Doubtless juries are apt to create, unconsciously,
certain standards of their own by which a few
good artists must needs suffer, hence the desir-
ability of sufficient independent shows to give

all real artists an opportunity to exhibit. Do
away, however, with juries and such a show as
the one under notice is rendered null and void,
by displaying hundreds of worthless specimens of
work which not alone attracted adverse criticism
on their own account, but hindered the enjoy-
ment of many good canvases which, in such com-
pany were bound to forfeit much of their sig-
nificance and appeal.
A suggestion re juries might be in place and