Studio: international art (78.1919)

STUDIO-TALK

GLASGOW.—The advent of a new art
society is at all times an interesting
event and denoting, as it usually does, a
measure of discontent with existing con-
ditions, it excites expectations of some de-
parture from convention. The recently
formed Glasgow Society of Painters and
Sculptors, which held its inaugural ex-
hibition in the spring of this year, has not
startled the art world as the Scottish
Impressionists did with Audrey and her
Goats and The Galloway Landscape, nor
did this first exhibition take the breath
away, as did the Post-Impressionists in
their two London shows some eight years
ago. The new society is a group of thirty
young artists, mostly graduates of the
Glasgow School of Art, who felt that they
had something to express that might be
better expressed and understood in a show
of their own than in a big exhibition such

as that which the Institute holds annually
in the autumn. Apart from this, interest
in art has become so general in Glasgow
that a spring or early summer exhibition
has become almost a necessity. In con-
sideration of all this, and of the difficulties
encountered in a transitionary period, the
result justified the experiment, and with
judicious management a future is assured
for the new venture. 000

The first impression of the exhibition was
one of colour exhilaration. The new men
appear to have learned the lesson con-
vincingly demonstrated by the war, that
colour has a powerful effect on tempera-
ment if skilfully handled. Another im-
pression was the abnormal predominance
of figure subjects in the work shown, four-
fifths of the main exhibits being in this
category. With the characteristic ven-
turesomeness of youth the new men have