Studio: international art (56.1912)

Fernand Maillaud

Fernand maillaud :

A PAINTER OF THE
OLD FRENCH PRO-
VINCE OF BERRY. BY
OCTAVE UZANNE.

In all phases of its intellectual, as
also of its aesthetic, activities France has
always been the land where revolu-
tionaries of every type have had the
fullest licence. In the realms of politics
or social economy, as well as in the
sciences, letters, and arts, the Progres-
sives, Extremists, Anarchists of dogma
or formula, incoherent innovators and
the heads of independent schools who
cast all tradition to the winds, never
cease their agitations and are ever ready
without adequate reason to preoccupy
their minds with any new idea.

But France is at the same time the
country of good sense, of traditionalism,
and above all of laborious conservatism.
Underneath all this surface agitation
and the turbulent manifestoes of the

PEN' AND INK SKETCH BY A. BESNARD

for ever throughout the collections of
the whole world.

But Besnard is in the full tide of his
strength. India exercises upon him an
irresistible influence. We may hope,
therefore—and, at any rate, it is the
painter’s intention—that a new series of
works may afford us at no distant date
a similar artistic treat. H. F.

In connection with the Art Section of
the Latin-British Exhibition at Shepherd’s
Bush an Art Union has been formed
under the title of The Great White
City Art Union. Its object is to assist
the French, Italian, Spanish, and British
artists exhibiting at the exhibition in the
disposal of their works, and to enable
the public to acquire some of these at a
nominal outlay. Holders of shilling Art
Union tickets will be admitted free to
the exhibition on October io, when the
ballot takes place. Applications should
be addressed to C. R. Chisman, Esq., at
the exhibition.

PEN AND INK SKETCH

BY A. BESNARD

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