DOI Heft:
No. 90 (September, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19785#0311
Studio-Talk
The second, a much smaller picture, of easel
dimensions, is more intime in subject and in treat-
ment. The artist has represented with marvellous
effect the play of light on the attentive and astonished
faces of a group of people standing round the "Saint
John's fire." There is a sense of mystery and pro-
fundity about this canvas which recalls the celebra-
tion of some primitive rite, some legendary Breton
observance.
The ornamentation of the various apartments in
the Asiatic-Russian Pavilion at the Trocadero has
been entrusted by the Russian Government to M.
Constantin Korovine, a young artist of St. Peters-
burg. In the hall of Central Asia M. Korovine has
painted a series of panels, of which we now give
reproductions. They represent landscapes and
monuments ot Samarkand. Elsewhere, as in the
salles of the Far North and Siberia, he had treated
in admirable fashion, in a number of conventionally
coloured friezes, the picturesque scenes of the
septentrional lands, with the midnight sun, the
fishing villages, the otters, the virgin forests of
Siberia, the shores of the Yenissei and the Polar
Sea, and the Isles of Commandor. Herein, M.
Korovine, who designed the architecture and
arranged the scheme of the Russian village and that
of the very successful exhibition of popular Russian
industrial arts, reveals painter's gifts of the highest
order. He is a sort of Russian Henri Riviere, and
is doing for his own country what our great litho-
grapher and wood-engraver has done for Brittany
and Paris. Would I had space enough at com
mand to deal as fully as the subject deserves with
this earnest and original artist. I trust it will not
be long before an opportunity occurs to make
the readers of The Studio better acquainted with
his work.
M. Adolf Fenyes' stirring picture, La Famille, in
the Hungarian section, is attracting a great deal of
attention. It is a sober work, broadly and originally
conceived and executed, and full of real strength.
So life-like are the types depicted that one feels
bound to congratulate the artist on having turned
his gaze on the life around him instead of being
content to follow the brilliant principles of the
Schools and the Academies. M. Fenyes' fine
canvas is one of the best things in the Hungarian
section of the Grand Palais. Striking work is also
"CONTE DE PRINTEMTS "
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BY FERI DE SZIKSZAY
The second, a much smaller picture, of easel
dimensions, is more intime in subject and in treat-
ment. The artist has represented with marvellous
effect the play of light on the attentive and astonished
faces of a group of people standing round the "Saint
John's fire." There is a sense of mystery and pro-
fundity about this canvas which recalls the celebra-
tion of some primitive rite, some legendary Breton
observance.
The ornamentation of the various apartments in
the Asiatic-Russian Pavilion at the Trocadero has
been entrusted by the Russian Government to M.
Constantin Korovine, a young artist of St. Peters-
burg. In the hall of Central Asia M. Korovine has
painted a series of panels, of which we now give
reproductions. They represent landscapes and
monuments ot Samarkand. Elsewhere, as in the
salles of the Far North and Siberia, he had treated
in admirable fashion, in a number of conventionally
coloured friezes, the picturesque scenes of the
septentrional lands, with the midnight sun, the
fishing villages, the otters, the virgin forests of
Siberia, the shores of the Yenissei and the Polar
Sea, and the Isles of Commandor. Herein, M.
Korovine, who designed the architecture and
arranged the scheme of the Russian village and that
of the very successful exhibition of popular Russian
industrial arts, reveals painter's gifts of the highest
order. He is a sort of Russian Henri Riviere, and
is doing for his own country what our great litho-
grapher and wood-engraver has done for Brittany
and Paris. Would I had space enough at com
mand to deal as fully as the subject deserves with
this earnest and original artist. I trust it will not
be long before an opportunity occurs to make
the readers of The Studio better acquainted with
his work.
M. Adolf Fenyes' stirring picture, La Famille, in
the Hungarian section, is attracting a great deal of
attention. It is a sober work, broadly and originally
conceived and executed, and full of real strength.
So life-like are the types depicted that one feels
bound to congratulate the artist on having turned
his gaze on the life around him instead of being
content to follow the brilliant principles of the
Schools and the Academies. M. Fenyes' fine
canvas is one of the best things in the Hungarian
section of the Grand Palais. Striking work is also
"CONTE DE PRINTEMTS "
2 74
BY FERI DE SZIKSZAY