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Illyne, Mary: A Russian painter, W. Pourwit
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A Russian Painter
ARUSSIAN PAINTER. W. earned him his first prize, the Prix de Rome. He
POURWIT. BY MARY ILLYNE. worked, while in the Academy, in the studio of
Kouindgi, a well known landscape painter, whose
The Imperial Academy of Arts in St. teaching had, according to Mr. Pourwit, a great
Petersburg had always held fast to the traditions and influence on his artistic development. Mr.
teachings of the old school, and it was only some Kouindgi had no fixed rules, no precepts, to im-
five years ago that, alive to the rising power of the part for all alike, sanctioned by and according to
new movement, it decided on a great step —it tradition. He let his pupils paint in the way best
admitted amongst its jury a few of the younger suited to each : they were to try and attain an effect,
painters, whose fame was only just beginning, work hard, and study nature.
Until then they had been passed over on account That studying of nature is, to my thinking, the
of their modernisms. However, their individuality, keynote of all Pourwit's works : all his paintings
the strength and beauty of their art, had to be are true to it. Not one stroke of the brush is laid
recognised and acknowledged. From that time on without his having first ascertained, through
the whole style of the Academy exhibitions was endless study and observation, that that shape, that
"hanged, and many new names came to the colour, really could have existed. Although, when
front. Among these one of the most prominent is he once sets to work, he paints with extraordinary
undoubtedly that of Mr. Pourwit. His talent is rapidity, he often paints for a whole year or more
alike recognised by the adherents of the most at the same picture before he finishes it, if he is
modem schools and those who still cling to the not quite sure of the effect he is trying to repro-
old style of painting. It was in the Academy that duce. He waits for the same time of year, goes
he had his earliest training, and it was the Academy back to the same neighbourhood, and tries to catch
that bought for its museum the picture which had the same effect over and over again : then, and not
"soleil en mars" by w. pourwit
XXXIII. No. 142.—January, 1905. 285
ARUSSIAN PAINTER. W. earned him his first prize, the Prix de Rome. He
POURWIT. BY MARY ILLYNE. worked, while in the Academy, in the studio of
Kouindgi, a well known landscape painter, whose
The Imperial Academy of Arts in St. teaching had, according to Mr. Pourwit, a great
Petersburg had always held fast to the traditions and influence on his artistic development. Mr.
teachings of the old school, and it was only some Kouindgi had no fixed rules, no precepts, to im-
five years ago that, alive to the rising power of the part for all alike, sanctioned by and according to
new movement, it decided on a great step —it tradition. He let his pupils paint in the way best
admitted amongst its jury a few of the younger suited to each : they were to try and attain an effect,
painters, whose fame was only just beginning, work hard, and study nature.
Until then they had been passed over on account That studying of nature is, to my thinking, the
of their modernisms. However, their individuality, keynote of all Pourwit's works : all his paintings
the strength and beauty of their art, had to be are true to it. Not one stroke of the brush is laid
recognised and acknowledged. From that time on without his having first ascertained, through
the whole style of the Academy exhibitions was endless study and observation, that that shape, that
"hanged, and many new names came to the colour, really could have existed. Although, when
front. Among these one of the most prominent is he once sets to work, he paints with extraordinary
undoubtedly that of Mr. Pourwit. His talent is rapidity, he often paints for a whole year or more
alike recognised by the adherents of the most at the same picture before he finishes it, if he is
modem schools and those who still cling to the not quite sure of the effect he is trying to repro-
old style of painting. It was in the Academy that duce. He waits for the same time of year, goes
he had his earliest training, and it was the Academy back to the same neighbourhood, and tries to catch
that bought for its museum the picture which had the same effect over and over again : then, and not
"soleil en mars" by w. pourwit
XXXIII. No. 142.—January, 1905. 285