International studio (32.1907)

Talashkino

‘polotchka” or wall-bracket

play upon most tastefully decorated balalaikas.
Both in the architecture and decoration of this
theatre the same concern for artistic refinement is
manifest as in other products of the establishments.

The achievements of the Talashkino ateliers can-
not be compared with similar works of the Occident.
Their originality is so strong, so surprising, that,
accustomed as we are to certain aesthetic postulates,
to certain formulae of criticism, we feel that in
order to judge them we require a special sense;
we feel that it
is impossible
to measure
this art by the
same standard
as that which
we apply to
the art of the
Occident. It
is only after
studying them
thoroughly,
after becom-
ing familiar
with them,
that we can
form an exact
opinion of
and appreciate
these works
about which
hangs the per- settee

fume of forgotten legends,
these works so wonder-
fully rich in tone and
capricious in contour, in
which stone, metal and
wood are united for the
final effect.

And from the various
objects, fashioned after
the drawings of the mas-
ters by the rude hands of
the little Talashkino pea-
sants, emanates a force,
mysterious and powerful,
which benumbed by the
winter sleep of centuries
now wakes to the Spring
of a new era, bringing to
us a fresh note in which
vibrates the highest beauty
—the ingenious and sin-
cere beauty of an art which
appears before our ancient civilization in all its
shining’youth—centuries old. C. de Danilovicz.

(Some further illustrations of Talashkino work
will be given in the next number (t/The Studio.)

DESIGNED BY A. ZINOVIEF

Messrs. Lee-Hankey, G. Moira, A. Withers
and A. Fisher have been awarded medals at the
Barcelona Exhibition, and Mr. Brangwyn a Special
Diploma. Several English works have been
acquired by the Government.

DESIGNED BY N. ROERICH

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