War Memorials

England plans, as a war memorial, a great bridge across the Thames at Charing Cross; France a gigantic monument (75 by 30 feet) to be placed against the cliffs near Grenoble (Isere). But Italy's memorial will be more striking than either--a huge monumental cross, laid flat on the mountainside, and sloping up to meet the summit of Monte San Micheler, crucial field of Italy's war. Black against the sky, a group of rushing figures typify the "Scythe of death." Pasteur, Painter "The great Pasteur began his public life as a portrait painter," says a correspondent of the Art News. Leonardo da Vinci is the classic example of artist-scientist, of course. (Hydraulic engineer, inventor, research student, as well as painter of two of the greatest examples of western art --the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper.) He was potentially great in either capacity. Whether Pasteur had the capability of becoming as genuine an artist as Da Vinci was scientist cannot be known. But that he did not continue to paint is indicative of the increasing specialization of modern life.

Mens Sana

A formerly conservative organization, the Chicago Society of Artists, suddenly found itself radical at its last exhibition. Modernists had unobtrusively seized control of most of the committees. The older members were horrified and have promptly all seceded to form a new society. The Painters and Sculptors of Chicago, under the presidency of Lorado Taft. The motto of the new group is mens sana.