DOI Heft:
No. 137 (August, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19882#0287
Studio- Talk
Except or this undue
congestion, however, this
year's Gallery is a decided
improvement on that of
19 o i. Exaggerated colour-
ing and lack of drawing
are far less pronounced,
and the feeble and spirit-
less imitation of what is
understood to be the
French School has given
way to a healthy individu-
ality and entirely national
style of execution. The
younger artists, having
tasted the bitter-sweet
fruits of Impressionism,
seem inclined to look up
to the great Spanish
masters — especially the
in the guaderrama mountains " by munoz degrain modern ones_for guid-
ance. The influence on
them of men like Sorolla,
about one thousand six hundred pictures, over Rusinol, Zuloaga—is very marked, without leading
three hundred sculptural works, besides architec- to mere imitation. And it is these masters who
tural designs, etchings, drawings, and a good section have at last freed Spain from the charge brought
of decorative art, all crowded into a building far against her that her national genius would be
too small for them. But there is no limit to the swallowed up by that of Paris.
size and number ot pictures sent in by any one -
painter, and the jury cannot refuse works by artists Barcelona, Valencia, and Seville are the three
who have been awarded a prize, some of whom send cities or provinces that can claim to have formed
as many as ten, twenty, thirty, or even more canvases. flourishing schools, independent ot each other
triptych
by eduardo chicharro
263
Except or this undue
congestion, however, this
year's Gallery is a decided
improvement on that of
19 o i. Exaggerated colour-
ing and lack of drawing
are far less pronounced,
and the feeble and spirit-
less imitation of what is
understood to be the
French School has given
way to a healthy individu-
ality and entirely national
style of execution. The
younger artists, having
tasted the bitter-sweet
fruits of Impressionism,
seem inclined to look up
to the great Spanish
masters — especially the
in the guaderrama mountains " by munoz degrain modern ones_for guid-
ance. The influence on
them of men like Sorolla,
about one thousand six hundred pictures, over Rusinol, Zuloaga—is very marked, without leading
three hundred sculptural works, besides architec- to mere imitation. And it is these masters who
tural designs, etchings, drawings, and a good section have at last freed Spain from the charge brought
of decorative art, all crowded into a building far against her that her national genius would be
too small for them. But there is no limit to the swallowed up by that of Paris.
size and number ot pictures sent in by any one -
painter, and the jury cannot refuse works by artists Barcelona, Valencia, and Seville are the three
who have been awarded a prize, some of whom send cities or provinces that can claim to have formed
as many as ten, twenty, thirty, or even more canvases. flourishing schools, independent ot each other
triptych
by eduardo chicharro
263