Studio: international art (37.1906)

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—for instance, the late Pedro Americo de Figueredo,
whose name in the late seventies went the round
of the European newspapers as that of a great
imaginative painter.

The Exhibition lately held may be divided into
two sections—the one comprising the works of
artists already recognised, and the other those of
young men striving to win a place for themselves
in the front rank. In the first section two names
must be cited at once : Henrique Bernardelli, with
three excellent portraits, in one of which, that of
Senhor Ubaldino do Amaral, the vigorous technique
has served to give relief to a singularly strong and
expressive characterisation of a well-known person-
ality ; and Elyseo Visconti, a fine artist deeply
versed in all the processes of the modern French
school, and who exhibited perhaps the most
notable picture in the Exhibition in a splendid full-
length portrait of Nicolina de Assis, the Brazilian
sculptress.

Joao Baptista da Costa is the Brazilian land-
iportrait of nicolina de assis by elyseo visconti scapist par excellence. He is uplein-air artist of the

first water, with a special fondness for those effects of
number of clever studies in oil of boats, and Mr. twilight and dawn in which the suffused high light
W. T. Thomson some good landscapes in water- is kept quiet and soothing and full of charm. His
colour carefully worked out and true in effect. principal exhibit, The Beginning of Day, belongs

E. C. to Senhor Regis de Oliveira, the Brazilian Minister
in England, and is now in London.

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movements in this remote place rarely In this group we must mention also Pedro
appears in European journals, a few Weingartner, with interesting pictures of pagan
notes concerning our recent Fine Arts antiquity; Modesto Brocos, who exhibited a
Exhibition may be of in-
terest. Of course, no great
school of painting or sculp-
ture can be expected to
exist in a country which
may be said to be still in
course of formation, and
where art has yet to be
content with a subordinate
position in the interests of
men. Still, we have had a
school of fine arts since the
beginning of last century,
and although they are not
very numerous, some good
artists have been turned
out by it who, in a more
propitious and less narrow
centre, would have ranked
high in any other country "the eve,of the wedding" by a. i.uiz de freitas

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