Studio: international art (47.1909)

Italian Art at the Venice International Exhibition

“ SOLEIL D’HIVER”

conceptions, the directness with which he presents
the picturesqueness of the manners and customs
of the people, the grace and beauty of the women,
the charm and intimacy of family life, with ever-
varying and graduating progression of colour and
kaleidoscopic effects.

Besides those already mentioned there are
four celebrated Italian painters who have died
during the last ten years—Pasini, Fattori, Signo-
rini and Pellizza. Alberto Pasini was a very clever,
conscientious painter, who sought his inspiration
from the East. He brought out in his paintings the
particular atmosphere of
the Orient. Giovanni
Fattori, although at times
uneven and erratic, and
perhaps too prolific, was
always original, vigorous
and insinuating ; his chief
aim was to express with
his brush the instanta-
neity of life in movement.

Telemaco Signorini was a
realistic, sincere and con-
vincing painter. During
his long career he culti-
vated figure as well as
landscape painting and
etching. He had a very
facile pen, which he used
most dexterously in
artistic polemics, and
although perhaps less
spontaneous, less original
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i n controversy than Fattori,
he showed himself, never-
theless, powerful and
thoroughly at home amid
all the conflicting ele-
ments of argument regard-
ing technique, &c.

Giuseppe Pellizza, of
Volpedo, who died by his
own hand in 1907, before
reaching the age of forty,
and who has already been
the subject of a notice
in The Studio (October,
1908, pp. 65, et seq.),
was one of the band of
enthusiastic and faithful
followers of the division-
istic technique, the school
of Seurat and Signac,
which he in common with Segantini, Morbelli,
Grubicy, Previati, Lionne and Balia did not follow
unreservedly. However, at the Venice exhibition
the outcome of his novel technique and naturalistic
tendency is brought into prominence in a series
of canvases, large and small, which conquer our
admiration by their exquisite poetical sentiment.

The work of the other Italian painters is distri-
buted throughout the various rooms allotted to
each province of Italy. Among the Venetians I
must mention Bezzi, who sent in a beautiful winter
scene with snow effects, in which is found all the

BY GIUSEPPE PELLIZZA





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BY GUGLIELMO CIARDI