Studio: international art (53.1911)

The National Competition of Schools of Art, ign

LEATHER BAG. BY F. PIZZANE1.I.I (SOCIETE MILANAISE
DES CUIRS DECORES)

are good, and Great Britain, with France and
Germany, contributes largely to the International.
The British Pavilion is one of the many which, as
I have mentioned, were erected by the exhibition
authorities in the rococo style, and consequently
this section has no very distinctive features, and
does not evince any striking national charac-
teristics. Great Britain seems to have troubled
less about the housing of its exhibits than did
Germany, which country placed the decoration of
the interior of its pavilion in the hands of Prof.
Hans Alfred Richter. As to France, while the
main pavilion was the work of the Bureau
Technique of the International, various smaller
buildings have been designed by French architects,
as, for instance, the Pavilion de la Ville de Paris
by M. Bouvard, that of Marseilles by M. Huot,
while M. Guilbert was entrusted with the Court of
Honour in the main pavilion.

In the Russian section one saw a quant ty of
furniture, metal-work, and jewellery, in. a kind of
Byzantine style, which was admirable in its way,
but naturally one looked for something modern
rather than for works based on antique designs.
There was also an exhibit of work by students, at

the great Imperial School of Stroganoff, but space
will not allow a further reference to the many
interesting things shown in this large White City
at Turin. A. M.

THE NATIONAL COMPETITION
OF SCHOOLS OF ART, 1911.

It is satisfactory to find that the Board of
Education has given up any idea of abandoning
or of interfering detrimentally with the National
Art Competition. The protest addressed to the
Board in the winter from the masters of Govern-
ment art schools all over the kingdom, and the
comments of the press upon the rumours of
abandonment have not been without effect, and it
seems probable that within the next year or two
the National Art Competition will be developed
upon extended lines and that its exhibitions will at
last be held in a convenient and easily accessible
gallery.

These reforms are indicated in the circular
issued in June by the Board of Education, in which
it is said : " The merits and defects of the National
Competition have been thb subject of much dis-

JEWEI.LED NECKLACE AND PENDANT IN GOLD, SILVER,
AND ENAMEL. BY EDWARD JOSEPH (CAMDEN SCHOOL,
ISLINGTON)

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