International studio (35.1908)

Studio-Talk


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of comparison between the two nations the exhibi-
tion is certainly complete enough to be an event
of momentous significance in the annals of art.

At the Chenil Gallery,
Chelsea, in a recent exhi-
bition, Mr. Orpen and
Mr. John, whose names
inevitably fall together,
were chiefly represented.
Mr. Orpen has a direct
and forcible art, pro-
ceeding to an intimately
beautiful realism through
an extraordinary percep-
tion of values, but he is
now apparently glazing
all this over with sweet
colouring. His colour
sense must speak more
instinctively if it is to be
believed in and com-
mended as part of the sin-
ceiity of outlook which
yesterday placed his can-
vases amongst the realities
of modern painting. Mr.
John refuses to dissipate
his art on the acquisition of foreign gifts, but for
the sake of a certain sensationalism he often violates
a sense of colour as subtle as his drawing.

At the Baillie Gallery
was chiefly given over to
impressionist art—French
and English. Space does
not permit us here to enter
into comparisons as to the
relative merits of -works,
but we embrace the oppor-
tunity of congratulating
the proprietor of the
Gallery on the highly in-
teresting nature of the
exhibitions of this order
which he organises from
time to time. The exhi-
bition of the Friday Club
at the same Gallery con-
tained a great deal of
immature work, with here
and there, however, such
brilliant exceptions as the
works of Mr. Albert
Rothenstein, F. H. S.
Shepherd, A. Mayor,
Bernard Leach, and Miss
C. Atwood.
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the still-life exhibition At the Fine Art Society’s Galleries, the rernain-


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