Studio: international art (63.1914/15)

Studio-Talk

ment of his art Carcano sought to be intentionally T| "V ARIS.—The war has resulted in the com-
poetic or didactic, that he missed his aim, but he lvsJr Plete cessation of artistic activity in

always remained a fine master, and even in these France. Could it indeed be otherwise

later works, it is the motive, not the technique, JL when all the able-bodied men of from

which is at fault. twenty to forty-eight years of age are called up for

military service and are now serving with the colours

The Lombard Water Colour Society, of which in the defence of their country? Artists have gone,

Carcano was Vice-President and which has held or are about to go, the same as the rest, and they

three exhibitions since 1911, each of them a marked lay aside their brushes to take up the rifle or to

success, has now developed into the "Federation work the guns; many of them have already been

of Lombard Artists," with Paolo Sala as President; in the thick of the fighting and have distinguished

and the first fruit of this organisation will appear themselves upon the field of battle; many also,

in the National Exhibition of Portraiture to be alas! have fallen victims in the cause of duty.

held next summer. _ Studios are therefore all shut up till happier times

return once more, when the enemy, who has shown

The arrangements for the new Palace ot Fine his barbarity in the destruction of so many art

Arts at Milan are already far advanced, and three- treasures, shall have been finally overcome,
fourths of the large sum required for this fine
building are already assured. This Palace, as soon

as completed, will be the home of all future But while the young artists have gone off to the

Milanese Exhibitions of Modern Art, which war, the older men have also found a patriotic duty

hitherto have found a temporary refuge in the to fulfil. The big societies—the Nationale, the

" Pescarenico," or, as now, in the Brera; and it is Societe des Artistes francais, the Salon dAutomne,

suggested—and, I believe, fully contemplated—to the Humoristes — have not suffered the wives

organise, with this Palace as the " locale," a series and children of those who are engaged in the

of biennial Exhibitions ot International Art, not defence of home, country and civilisation to be in

competing but alternating with those which, at want and need, and they have all embraced the

Venice, have now secured such a magnificent worthy task of sustaining both morally and

position in the art of modern Europe. S. B. materially all those who are put to the trial by the

"WOMEN AT A WELL "

BY FILII'PO CARCANO