Studio: international art (79.1920)

STUDIO-TALK

"THE VICTORY OF LIBERTY”
BY BRANCO DESHKOVITCH
(National Museum, Washington)

clay of one of his compositions on a large
scale, as is also that of The Victory of
Liberty. Conceived in a more symbolistic
vein, his Jugo-Slav legendary hero, Kral-
jevic Marko, embodies in it the strength
and the decidedly poetical outlook and
temperament of the artist. E. A. T.

Arrangements are on foot for holding a
representative exhibition of Czecho-Slovak
art in Paris—probably at the Louvre—at a
no distant date, and a committee has, it is
reported, been formed in Prague under the
presidency of General Pelle to forward the
scheme. The exhibition is to embrace in
addition to the pictorial art, sculpture, and
applied art of Czecho-Slovakia a collection
of the peasant art productions for which
this branch of the Slav race is famous.
The influence of this rich peasant art is seen
in the work of some of the leading painters
of the new republic—notably in that of
Joza Uprka, of which examples have
already appeared in the pages of this
magazine. A Slovak by birth, this artist
has elected to live and work among the
peasants of Moravia, which like Slovakia
proper has been far less subject to foreign
(i.e. German) influences than the remainder
of the national organism, so that, as a well-
known Czech writer has said, it is from
Moravia that u we Czechs expect the
strengthening and rejuvenating of our

national spirit and the purification of our
national ideals." 0000
Beginning with March 1, a new schedule
of regulations, approved by the Minister of
Public Instruction and the Director of Fine
Arts, has come into operation in respect to
the hours during which the national
museums will be open to the public. Under
these regulations, which are at present
introduced as an experiment, all the
museums, including, of course, the Louvre,
will open their doors each day, except
Monday, at ten o'clock, and close at noon
for two hours. In the afternoon the hours
of admission will vary according to the
season ; from February 15 to March 31
they will be from 2 to 5.30 ; April 1 to
September 30, from 2 till 6; and October 1
to February 14, from 2 till 4. The Ad-
ministration has under consideration ar-
rangements for enabling students, artists
and others, to pursue their studies during
the intervals wThen the galleries are closed
to the public. 0000

Adelaide, south Australia.

—Though smaller than the National
Galleries at Sydney and Melbourne, the
Public Art Gallery at Adelaide, which now
counts Mr. Frank Brangwyn's painting of
The Bridge at Avignon among its posses-
sions, can certainly claim to be the best

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