Studio: international art (35.1905)

Studio-Talk

ception, and undoubted
individuality.

“brother and sister”



BY SUCHARDA


It suffices to mention
Svabinsky’s interesting
series of pen-portraits of
his contemporaries as proof
that this artist, in common
with Uprka, Brannerova,
Schwaiger and Stretti, has
reached a recognised posi-
tion. Uprka’s landscapes
are the broad plains of his
tiome in Moravia, and the
human forms with which
he animates them are those
of Moravo-Slovak peasants,
a quite uncommon race of
men.

I have for years past
been watching with great
interest the work of the
two landscape painters,
Hudecek and Slavicek, and

with Moll, Josef Hoffmann, Moser, Klimt, and
Otto Wagner.

“ Secession ” has from its origin been successful,
both artistically and financially, and has perhaps
become less necessary. We can utter no judg-
ment. Two halves cannot make a whole, but out
of each half something good will come ; for each
is made up of men determined to put forth their
strength for the common cause. Should the future
“ efface time and space, and make two lovers
happy,” it will then be seen that the differences
are no real differences, but such as arise from the
struggle for eternal freedom. A. S. Levetus .

PRAGUE.—The seventh exhibition of the
Verein-Manes was not, as previous exhibi-
tions were, limited to members of the
group, but was thrown open to all modern
Bohemian artists, in order to afford as complete a
presentation as possible of the position of Bohemian
art at the present day. After a careful inspection
of the works exhibited, the conclusion seems justi-
fied that a fairly high position has been attained.
There were no eccentricities to repel the visitor;
on every hand there was evidence of earnest
endeavours, sympathetic treatment, poetic con-

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“ BLIND FOLK ” BY H. BILEK