DOI Heft:
No. 137 (August, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19882#0288
Studio- Talk
and the world in general. By the word "school" terised by a vivid, flashing, creative imagination
I mean that there is in these cities as nowhere severe and elegant, powerful and delicate,
else in Spain—not even in Madrid—a decided -
movement in favour of art and artists, whose Among other artists who are either rising or have
numbers increase yearly, and who are capable of already attained their mature personality, Eduardo
producing a vigorous and healthy art of their own, Chicharro, a young Madrid painter living in Rome,
independent of external influences. deserves special mention for the great progress he
__ has made. This year's picture, a large triptych re-
presenting Tasso's "Poem of Amidaand Reinoldo,"
The reputation of two artists, who till quite shows the influence of the pre-Raphaelite school
lately have been the scorn of biassed critics, is of English painters.
evidently increasing. These are, Sorolla in painting,
and Blay in sculpture. It is but two or three Another fine triptych is Enrique Cubell's Work,
years since the former was denied by many to be Rest, and Family. D. Ramon Casas sent an
a serious painter, and the latter, in the shadow of immense canvas, styled Barcelona, igo2, showing
Querol and Benlliure, was accounted a nobody, the mounted gendarmerie trying to drive back
To-day Sorolla is the recognised lord and master a huge crowd of workmen and unemployed;
of the gallery. The tiny room where his nine and the young Valencian, Manuel Benedito, re-
works are hung is the centre of all attraction, the presents a scene from Dante's "Inferno," an
lingering place for all who feel art and under- immense pot-pourri of human forms in every
stand that they are in the presence of a great imaginable posture—men and women writhing
master. Blay too, once ignored by the public, and fighting, howling and tumbling about in dire
has at last won for himself a merited place in the confusion,
first rank of Spanish sculptors. His art is charac-
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and the world in general. By the word "school" terised by a vivid, flashing, creative imagination
I mean that there is in these cities as nowhere severe and elegant, powerful and delicate,
else in Spain—not even in Madrid—a decided -
movement in favour of art and artists, whose Among other artists who are either rising or have
numbers increase yearly, and who are capable of already attained their mature personality, Eduardo
producing a vigorous and healthy art of their own, Chicharro, a young Madrid painter living in Rome,
independent of external influences. deserves special mention for the great progress he
__ has made. This year's picture, a large triptych re-
presenting Tasso's "Poem of Amidaand Reinoldo,"
The reputation of two artists, who till quite shows the influence of the pre-Raphaelite school
lately have been the scorn of biassed critics, is of English painters.
evidently increasing. These are, Sorolla in painting,
and Blay in sculpture. It is but two or three Another fine triptych is Enrique Cubell's Work,
years since the former was denied by many to be Rest, and Family. D. Ramon Casas sent an
a serious painter, and the latter, in the shadow of immense canvas, styled Barcelona, igo2, showing
Querol and Benlliure, was accounted a nobody, the mounted gendarmerie trying to drive back
To-day Sorolla is the recognised lord and master a huge crowd of workmen and unemployed;
of the gallery. The tiny room where his nine and the young Valencian, Manuel Benedito, re-
works are hung is the centre of all attraction, the presents a scene from Dante's "Inferno," an
lingering place for all who feel art and under- immense pot-pourri of human forms in every
stand that they are in the presence of a great imaginable posture—men and women writhing
master. Blay too, once ignored by the public, and fighting, howling and tumbling about in dire
has at last won for himself a merited place in the confusion,
first rank of Spanish sculptors. His art is charac-
POTTERY CLASS, ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
(See Chicago Studio- Talk)
264