DOI issue:
No. 242 (May 1913)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0348
Studio-Talk
technique or colour alone but with a uniform Many of the photographs of his work at my
mastery and combination of each separate symbol disposal had not quite achieved the true relative
achieves a unique greatness of expression, retaining colourl-vaues and for that cause other more repre-
in all instances the many vital qualities that so sentative works than those illustrated suffer in
many others have discarded in their scientific reproduction in black and white. E. A. T.
search for art. ■-
- Who is there that does not remember the
To those who would seek to trace influences of memorable successes gained by Juana Romani at
past masters, Manievitch's early training gives little the Paris Salons, at the moment when her
clue. Having studied in the School of Arts and marvellously gifted artistic talent first unfolded
Crafts at Kieff in Russia, the land of his birth, he itself with flower-like naturalness and with the
afterwards spent a year in Munich, and made a few same simple joy in being able to charm the
sojourns here and there amongst other artistic beholder? A virtuoso in technique and in colour,
circles. His works done during these periods Juana Romani would seem surely to have wrested
show no signs of his having absorbed other person- from the master painters of Italy some of the
alities than his own. In his exhibition I noticed secrets of their palette. It is not too bold an
canvases dating ten years back, side by side with assertion to make, that she combined in her work
those of to-day, each manifesting a rare power of a measure of the charm and seductive appeal of
expression which could not fail to make a lasting the Venetian painters with something of the
appeal to unbigoted artists and critics alike, magnificence and opulent sumptuousness of
certain of the Flemish
masters. And still from her
■HBHMH^Bna BHBRBHBB| palette — a palet-te
mj/SBSSk ling with that brilliancy
of colours with which she
set out—there come new
works to delight the
numerous admirers of her
The genre pictures and
r"y* studies of heads painted by
ftjk . Juana Romani are many in
number and most attrac-
tive. The readers of The
Studio will find here cer-
tain reproductions of works
which by their originality,
jMB their charm, and by their
jfc> Jlr strange beauty have con-
JjHfgSjjtajlp' Jfr tributed to the success of
HR\ik jJ^uHnyib^ their author: Primavera,
now in the Musee du
Luxembourg, Desdemona,
'^WKft^^^jBG^'/aCT^HKc' Titianella, and Piverie.
BL, Among other works should
^7^?r93i be mentioned Salome, also
, V^^|^^Hm»^ in the Luxembourg,
W ^ajCTW^'I^W^v/ U Infante and Fleur des
\&0&N&?/'^. A/pes, both in the Art
%. Gallery of Mulhouse, Prin-
^^^BB^BHBBm^BBWmTi 'Miliar i hi......uliil'i I temps, Angelique, He'rodiade,
Sainte-Madeleine, Manuella,
«PRIMAVERA» (SPRING) . BY JUANA ROMANI deTheodOTO,
(lit the Mtisie du Luxembourg, fans)
325
technique or colour alone but with a uniform Many of the photographs of his work at my
mastery and combination of each separate symbol disposal had not quite achieved the true relative
achieves a unique greatness of expression, retaining colourl-vaues and for that cause other more repre-
in all instances the many vital qualities that so sentative works than those illustrated suffer in
many others have discarded in their scientific reproduction in black and white. E. A. T.
search for art. ■-
- Who is there that does not remember the
To those who would seek to trace influences of memorable successes gained by Juana Romani at
past masters, Manievitch's early training gives little the Paris Salons, at the moment when her
clue. Having studied in the School of Arts and marvellously gifted artistic talent first unfolded
Crafts at Kieff in Russia, the land of his birth, he itself with flower-like naturalness and with the
afterwards spent a year in Munich, and made a few same simple joy in being able to charm the
sojourns here and there amongst other artistic beholder? A virtuoso in technique and in colour,
circles. His works done during these periods Juana Romani would seem surely to have wrested
show no signs of his having absorbed other person- from the master painters of Italy some of the
alities than his own. In his exhibition I noticed secrets of their palette. It is not too bold an
canvases dating ten years back, side by side with assertion to make, that she combined in her work
those of to-day, each manifesting a rare power of a measure of the charm and seductive appeal of
expression which could not fail to make a lasting the Venetian painters with something of the
appeal to unbigoted artists and critics alike, magnificence and opulent sumptuousness of
certain of the Flemish
masters. And still from her
■HBHMH^Bna BHBRBHBB| palette — a palet-te
mj/SBSSk ling with that brilliancy
of colours with which she
set out—there come new
works to delight the
numerous admirers of her
The genre pictures and
r"y* studies of heads painted by
ftjk . Juana Romani are many in
number and most attrac-
tive. The readers of The
Studio will find here cer-
tain reproductions of works
which by their originality,
jMB their charm, and by their
jfc> Jlr strange beauty have con-
JjHfgSjjtajlp' Jfr tributed to the success of
HR\ik jJ^uHnyib^ their author: Primavera,
now in the Musee du
Luxembourg, Desdemona,
'^WKft^^^jBG^'/aCT^HKc' Titianella, and Piverie.
BL, Among other works should
^7^?r93i be mentioned Salome, also
, V^^|^^Hm»^ in the Luxembourg,
W ^ajCTW^'I^W^v/ U Infante and Fleur des
\&0&N&?/'^. A/pes, both in the Art
%. Gallery of Mulhouse, Prin-
^^^BB^BHBBm^BBWmTi 'Miliar i hi......uliil'i I temps, Angelique, He'rodiade,
Sainte-Madeleine, Manuella,
«PRIMAVERA» (SPRING) . BY JUANA ROMANI deTheodOTO,
(lit the Mtisie du Luxembourg, fans)
325