International studio (60.1916/1917)

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VOL. LX. No. 238 Copyright 1916, by John Lane Company DECEMBER, 1916


MARCELLE SOUTY

BY IGNACIO ZULOAGA

IGNACIO ZULOAGA BY JOHN
S. SARGENT-
IGNACIO ZULOAGA’S EX-
HIBITION
BY RAYMOND WYER
An exhibition of the works of
Ignacio Zuloaga is an event to be pro-
claimed as one of supreme artistic
interest. With Spanish courtesy it is
to an American painter that he con-
fides the honour of announcing him
to the American public. Little more
than a word of welcome to this great
artist is needful when one is sure that
his genius will receive in this country
the recognition that it has conquered
in the old world. The strangeness and
power of Senor Zuloaga’s evocations
might lead one to consider him as a
personality quite unique and unre-
lated to any past tradition; as a
creator of types and of a setting for
them charged with an intensity of life
strained to a pitch not reached before.
But it is in this very excess of roman-
ticism that his link with one of the
two main tendencies of the Spanish
school can be recognized. Realism,
in which it is always steeped, is of
course the dominant note of this
school, but it has periodically thrown
off into the realms of the imaginative
some such surprising offshoot as el
Greco, the mystic, and as the magician
Goya. In their hands this persistent,
invading realism attacks what is most
transcendental or most fantastic, and

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