Studio: international art (41.1907)

Talashkino

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staging, which they realised magically in a splendid
evocation of the life of olden times. Here
decorative ornamentation revived and developed.
Vasnetzof, Mmes. Polenof and Yakoutchikof were
the first zealous pioneers in this. Mme. Mamontof,

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who took a warm interest in art, founded in the
village of Abramtzevo, in the Moscow Government,
ateliers where the artists, drawing their inspiration
from the old subjects of everyday use, created an
art which could pretend to a Russian style, if style
there is. The distinction of this movement lies
in its sincerity, its originality and the individual
vigour, if we may so call it, of each object.

Little by little the importance of Mme.
Mamontof's ateliers declined, in consequence of
the death of the artists who were the first to
promote this movement, and it was then that

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Princess Marie Tenishef, widening the limits of
a school created by the Piincess Sviatopolk-
Tchetvertynska at Talashkino, in the Government
of Smolensk, founded the veritable Russian applied
art. The Minister of Public Instruction has inter-
ested himself in this school, and has assured it the
protection of the Government.

Princess Tenishef, herself a remarkable artist, at
once gathered round her the best among those to
whom the regeneration of Russian art was dear.

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