Studio: international art (56.1912)

Studio-Talk

“ MOSCOW

(Sovouz, Moscow)

BY KONSTANTIN YUON

fine series of drawings; the delicate rhythm of his
line in these always offers a marked contrast to his
broad method as a painter. Of the masterly
drawings of L. Pasternak there is really little new
to be said; they often show this artist to greater
advantage than do his painted portraits. Two
portraits of boys by S. Malyutin were interesting as
examples of shrewd characterisation ; the portrait of
the painter Ulianoff by1 Mme. Glagoleva and the
broadly painted self-portrait in green of Mile.
Goldinger also call for notice. A water-colour by
S. Pyrin, called Maternity, left a pleasant impression,
as did a small but very personal landscape by the
same artist. A talented sculptor, A. Matveyeff,
must not be overlooked.

A collection of pictures by two former students

of the St. Petersburg Academy formed a group by
themselves at the Soyouz. These two artists are
J. Brodsky and A. Savinoff, both of whom have
spent a good deal of time in Italy as pensionnaires
of the Academy. Both possess undoubted talent,
a complete control over technical ways and means,
and the courage which Russian artists so often lack
of attacking large figure compositions; but not-
withstanding all this the result is not wholly
satisfactory. These large canvases seem to be
wanting in warmth; they display too much tech-
nique and too little real artistic feeling. Only in
his small and almost miniature-like portrait did
Brodsky’s talent appear to have found its proper
sphere. _

A special feature of the Soyouz was the exhibition