Studio: international art (20.1900)

Round the Exhibition

from an etching (See article on " Emil Orlik") by emil orlik

of English art workers and draughtsmen there principles of decorative art of which The Studio

should have arisen a remarkable manifestation has been the propagator and the supporter, since

of the prodigious renaissance moving there. It the days when, be it said, those principles neither

is truly deplorable that England should be so appealed to nor inspired anyone,
poorly represented, for the exhibition of her The house of the "Art Nouveau Bing" stands in

best work in the Invalides would have relegated the left-hand part of the Esplanade des Invalides,

to their proper place many things the originality in the midst of the Breton village. The contrast

and the merit of which are merely relative, between the calvaries, the granite churches, the

Still, the English influence is manifest here, ancient buildings and the modernity of this facade,

despite the abstention of its leading representa- adorned with a frieze of orchids in relief, and with

tives, for one can see that applied art all the its walls adorned by Georges de Feure's panels,

world over is being modified, and that the taste of representing Architecture, Sculpture and Ceramics,

the people is in process of complete transformation, is quite fascinating.

thanks to England's sane example. This little edifice contains, in my opinion, the

In the course of these rambles through the most delightful, the most nearly perfect, things in

Exhibition it may be impossible for me to dwell the whole decorative art exhibition. Here, it

with due emphasis on all the works of importance seems to me, is to be seen the triumphant result

and interest that I may have the good fortune to of the endeavour, on the part of a little group of

observe, for these articles do not pretend to be artists, to attain as nearly as may be the absolute

complete. At the same time, my endeavour will ideal of novel decoration. The artists in question

be not to miss anything that appears to possess are MM. Georges de Feure, E. Colonna and

originality or character, or that is significant of the E. Gaillard; and their instigator, their head, is

modern tendency. In a word, I shall strive to M. S. Bing.

throw light on all that is conceived on those true The house of the "Art Nouveau Bing" consists