DOI issue:
No. 132 ( March, 1904)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19881#0189
Studio-Talk
In the second group, the "Secessionists" so | FLORENCE.—It has been rather the
called, are included M. Loghi, who expresses a I ^ fashion lately to run down contemporary
special vein of sentiment in fascinating harmonies Italian art, and the reason of the distrust
of colour; M. G. Petrashco, who works in a some- * felt for it is not far to seek. Indis-
what cold and gloomy key, and strives to accomplish criminating tourists having created a market for
simplification of his subject; M. Et. Popesco, who alabaster statuettes and smoothly painted genre
is a Munich student, finished in Paris. A man pictures, these were, naturally, freely supplied; and
of education, loving the romantic traditions of his the impression was produced that they were the
native land, he has tried, not unsuccessfully, to best work Italian artists could turn out. Moreover,
use the skill he has acquired by patient study in the Government rage for peopling the public
the cause of national art, and is one of our young squares with statues and busts, opened the way
artists who will certainly make a way for himself, to an immense amount of intrigue : many of the
because he is an idealist with a responsive tempera- commissions were given to unscrupulous artists,
ment, seconded by a strong will and ardent enthu- with the result known and deplored by all who
siasm for art. M. Stramboulesco is less remote love Italy. Still further, the re-awakening of the
from the Academic stream ; but his Elegy, a decorative arts in the north of Europe had at first
figure sunk in sad medita-
tion on a sofa against a
has the hallmark of
Munich.
A few words must also
be said of the sculpture.
Only three artists repre-
sent this branch of art;
M. Mirea, M. O. Spaethe,
and M. F. Storck, all
distinguished by a versa-
tile talent.
Regarded as a whole,
the exhibition of the
"Tinerimea Artistica"
gives evidence of sound
and serious study among
our young artists ; of a
genuine desire for crea-
tive effort, with due re-
gard for modern feeling
and the tendencies of
" New Art." Though
they have not achieved a
perfect union between the
classic and plastic har-
mony of figures which
charm the eye, and the
expressiveness of life
which appeals to the soul,
it is because they are con-
fronted by a problem so
difficult that it is just now
the crux of all modern
art. L. B.
172
LA PORTE DU MONASTERS BY X. VERMONT
In the second group, the "Secessionists" so | FLORENCE.—It has been rather the
called, are included M. Loghi, who expresses a I ^ fashion lately to run down contemporary
special vein of sentiment in fascinating harmonies Italian art, and the reason of the distrust
of colour; M. G. Petrashco, who works in a some- * felt for it is not far to seek. Indis-
what cold and gloomy key, and strives to accomplish criminating tourists having created a market for
simplification of his subject; M. Et. Popesco, who alabaster statuettes and smoothly painted genre
is a Munich student, finished in Paris. A man pictures, these were, naturally, freely supplied; and
of education, loving the romantic traditions of his the impression was produced that they were the
native land, he has tried, not unsuccessfully, to best work Italian artists could turn out. Moreover,
use the skill he has acquired by patient study in the Government rage for peopling the public
the cause of national art, and is one of our young squares with statues and busts, opened the way
artists who will certainly make a way for himself, to an immense amount of intrigue : many of the
because he is an idealist with a responsive tempera- commissions were given to unscrupulous artists,
ment, seconded by a strong will and ardent enthu- with the result known and deplored by all who
siasm for art. M. Stramboulesco is less remote love Italy. Still further, the re-awakening of the
from the Academic stream ; but his Elegy, a decorative arts in the north of Europe had at first
figure sunk in sad medita-
tion on a sofa against a
has the hallmark of
Munich.
A few words must also
be said of the sculpture.
Only three artists repre-
sent this branch of art;
M. Mirea, M. O. Spaethe,
and M. F. Storck, all
distinguished by a versa-
tile talent.
Regarded as a whole,
the exhibition of the
"Tinerimea Artistica"
gives evidence of sound
and serious study among
our young artists ; of a
genuine desire for crea-
tive effort, with due re-
gard for modern feeling
and the tendencies of
" New Art." Though
they have not achieved a
perfect union between the
classic and plastic har-
mony of figures which
charm the eye, and the
expressiveness of life
which appeals to the soul,
it is because they are con-
fronted by a problem so
difficult that it is just now
the crux of all modern
art. L. B.
172
LA PORTE DU MONASTERS BY X. VERMONT