DOI issue:
No. 330 (September 1920)
DOI article:Studio-Talk
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21401#0093
STUDIO-TALK
over, was the retrospective exhibition of independants with the official salons, but
works by deceased masters who were the connection is far from being effected,
members—Carriere, Puvis de Chavannes, and perhaps it is undesirable that it should
Roll, Stevens, Alexandre Charpentier, ever be effected. The young men
Rodin, Sisley, La Touche, Cazin, Dalou, detest—and quite rightly—all this system
Carolus-Duran, Meissonnier and Duez. of awards, medals, mentions, etc., which
The works of MM. Lucien Simon, Aman- has. remained an appanage of the Artistes
Jean, Besnard, Le Sidaner, Emile Claus, Francais ; they resent it as an invasion
Duhem, Maurice Denis, Paul Baudouin, of their independence. It cannot be
Dinet, Charles Guerin, Van Dongen, denied that this spirit marks an improve-
Sureda, Raffaelli, Rene Menard, and Mile, ment in artistic manners. The system is,
Boznanska all deserved particular attention, indeed, very harmful because of the base
albeit they did not tell us anything new expedients which it compels those artists
about these artists, whose merits are well who still submit to it to adopt; but that
known and generally acknowledged. One is, after all, their own concern, and if they
cannot expect an artist to be always like to submit, they may. 00a
changing, and we are only too happy when It was to be expected that works in-
he maintains his own high standard, as spired by the great war would be very
is the case with the artists just named, numerous at both salons, and this was
As to any revelations, they were unfortu- especially so at that of the Artistes
nately absent; the young artists turn Francais, but proof was afforded that
more and more to the Salon d'Automne, military painting is powerless to create
which thus becomes a means of linking the great and beautiful works of art. 0 0
78
"fete venitienne," by
francois flame'ng
(Society des Artistes Francais)
over, was the retrospective exhibition of independants with the official salons, but
works by deceased masters who were the connection is far from being effected,
members—Carriere, Puvis de Chavannes, and perhaps it is undesirable that it should
Roll, Stevens, Alexandre Charpentier, ever be effected. The young men
Rodin, Sisley, La Touche, Cazin, Dalou, detest—and quite rightly—all this system
Carolus-Duran, Meissonnier and Duez. of awards, medals, mentions, etc., which
The works of MM. Lucien Simon, Aman- has. remained an appanage of the Artistes
Jean, Besnard, Le Sidaner, Emile Claus, Francais ; they resent it as an invasion
Duhem, Maurice Denis, Paul Baudouin, of their independence. It cannot be
Dinet, Charles Guerin, Van Dongen, denied that this spirit marks an improve-
Sureda, Raffaelli, Rene Menard, and Mile, ment in artistic manners. The system is,
Boznanska all deserved particular attention, indeed, very harmful because of the base
albeit they did not tell us anything new expedients which it compels those artists
about these artists, whose merits are well who still submit to it to adopt; but that
known and generally acknowledged. One is, after all, their own concern, and if they
cannot expect an artist to be always like to submit, they may. 00a
changing, and we are only too happy when It was to be expected that works in-
he maintains his own high standard, as spired by the great war would be very
is the case with the artists just named, numerous at both salons, and this was
As to any revelations, they were unfortu- especially so at that of the Artistes
nately absent; the young artists turn Francais, but proof was afforded that
more and more to the Salon d'Automne, military painting is powerless to create
which thus becomes a means of linking the great and beautiful works of art. 0 0
78
"fete venitienne," by
francois flame'ng
(Society des Artistes Francais)