Studio: international art (54.1912)

Studio- Talk

"les sceurs de l'illusion" by victor rousseau

A whole room was set apart for the work ot the at length in the Special Number ot The Studio

sculptor Victor Rousseau, the painter Anna Boch, of 1902 devoted to Modern Etching and Engraving,

and the etcher Auguste Danse. In The Studio He is still, as always, the energetic artist and the

for November 1907 there appeared an appreciative revered master whose wise and enthusiastic

article devoted to the work of Victor Rousseau (in teaching has been so valuable a factor in the

which detailed reference was made to Les Sceurs training of the Belgian School.

de l'illusion, now reproduced) and dealing with the -

various characteristics of his fine talent. In the Two other Walloon painters deserve mention for

section of ancient art the visitor could admire their important contributions—Auguste Donnay,

the charming grace of composition, the elegance who depicts in an exquisite and restrained manner

and perfect technique of the work of the sculptor the dreamy and mysterious charm of the Ardennes,

Jacques Dubrceucq. "This same firm graceful- and Pierre Paulus, a new-comer (introduced to the

ness," writes that sympathetic critic L. Dumont public by his recent exhibition in the Cercle

Wilden, " this same instinctive science of modelling Artistique of Brussels), who sent a large number of

is to be found in Rousseau's work, and possibly by works " breathing the spirit of this industrial land,"

a comparison of these two artists'achievements we as L. Dumont Wilden has remarked, "and

may find out what it is that Rousseau owes to his reminiscent evidently of Meunier—for is not his

race. But whatever admiration we feel for the old name inseparable from this uncompromising and

artist, we find an even more rich and powerful severe modern art—but which, none the less, have

sensibility in the work of our contemporary." their own accent of individuality, and reveal a bold

- and sincere artist full of imagination." Finally, it

Mile. Boch long ago conquered for herself a is impossible to make any reference to the section

prominent place among landscapists who revel in of Fine Art at the Exhibition of Charleroi without

problems of light in many different lands. The mentioning the admirable work of organisation

active life and the considerable ozuvre of the veri- so splendidly carried out by the indefatigable

table master-graver Auguste Danse were analysed M. Jules Destree. Fernand Khnopff.

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