Studio: international art (80.1920)

THE STUDIO

THE RECENT WORK OF ETTORE
TITO. BY SELWYN BRINTON, M.A.

IN the earlier art of Professor Tito the
public had come to recognize certain
unique qualities. The fount of life was
there, fresh and overflowing; for who
but he could have painted that Fish Market
at Venice, alive with the chaffering crowd,
—the salt air of the lagoons and shrill
Venetian voices invading the very canvas i
These qualities of quick and just ob-
servation, this intimate sympathy with
popular life and power to transfer it to
the canvas, have never left him ; but what
I have called a fount has become a stream,
has widened, deepened its channel, formed

new affluents ; it will be my endeavour
in this notice to try to characterize these
later developments, especially during the
interval between the tenth international
Exhibition of the City of Venice in 1912
and the present day. 0000
First let us analyse very briefly the artist
in his " ambiente " and antecedents;
only in this way can we justly appreciate
his position to-day at the very front of
modern Italian art. Born at Castellamare
di Stabia, at the age of eight Ettore Tito
was already at Venice. His mother was
Venetian, and Venice counts throughout
for very much in his art and life ; but,
predating even Venice, I seem to detect
always the influence of his birthplace in

portrait of dr. corrado
ricci. by ettore tito

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