International studio (14.1901)

Studio- Talk

suspicion of slavishness. The landscapes, the
studies of flowers and animals—all were full of
that fine ardent feeling of Nature which with the
Japanese is almost a religion.

Two of the most remarkable and the most
characteristic of these works are now reproduced
here—the Vue d'un port., by Kwason Souzouki,
and the Villa sous la pluie, by Kotei—both of rare
delicacy of conception and exquisitely deft in
treatment

Warm thanks are due to M. Bing for giving us
the opportunity of gaining so clear an idea of the
modern art movement in Japan.

We give on page 28 r an illustration of
M. C. Milcendeau’s fine drawing entitled En
Bretagne.

G. M.

TURIN.—We have pleasure in giving an
illustration of the clever poster designed
by the well-known Italian sculptor, Signor
Bistolfii, to advertise the important ex-

hibition of decorative art which is to be held in
Turin next year.

FLORENCE.—Professor Ussi has left
125,000 frs. to the Accademia delle Belle
Arti in Florence as a fund, the interest of
which is to be used every five years to
furnish a prize of 20,000 frs., more or less (but
never less than 16,000 frs.), for a painting in oils
by an Italian artist. The painting is to be abso-
lutely, not comparatively, worthy the prize, which
is to be awarded by a commission formed of five
painters. Two of them are to be appointed by the
Accademia and three by a majority of the votes of
the artists who present their work. Should none of
the pictures sent in be worthy the prize, the matter
is to stand over for another five years, when two
prizes, increased by the interest which has mean-
while been accumulating, are to be offered. Should
there be again no “excellent work of art” presented,
an international competition shall be opened, after
the lapse of another five years, for a single prize,
formed by the accumulation of the two previous
prizes and their interests.