Studio: international art (59.1913)

Studio-Talk

CARVED SIDEBOARD

Designed by prof. a. vasnetzsoff

his hands nowadays are of
a severe beauty, not unac-
companied by a certain
sumptuousness, which at
once gives them a place
apart among contemporary
productions. His interior
decorations—like the dessus
de porte here reproduced,
a piece several feet wide
belonging to the distin-
guished painter, M. Lucien
Simon—are extraordinarily
rich, alike in material, in
form, and in decoration,
but they are also irreproach-
able in their sobriety, and
in their sane and robust
characteristics.

A. S.

that this should be as rich and ingenious as
possible, provided it is in strict and absolute
harmony with the material employed, with the
form selected, and with the eventual destination of
the object, a logical attitude which eliminates par
principe the bad taste of the petty craftsman. In
this respect the evolution of the artist has been
significant. From r888 till the present day the
ideal which he has been striving to attain has been
that of purity and nobility, of tranquil force and
sober richness. Without by any means losing the
charm and seductive grace of his early achieve-
ments, most of the objects which issue from

MOSCOW. — Readers of this magazine
have from time to time been made
familiar with the work of Prof. A.
Vasnetsoff as a painter, and it will be
remembered that the present generation owes to
him an extremely interesting series of pictures in
which the life of mediaeval Russia is vividly re-
called. The accompanying illustrations show him
in a different capacity—that of the designer of
furniture, the carved decoration of which is again
reminiscent of ancient Russia.

Just as the “Mir Isskousstva ” exhibition,

“ THE TEA-PARTY

78

(Soyouz Exhibition, Moscow ; from Dr, Troyanovski's Collection)

BY A. P. RIABUSHKIN