Studio: international art (80.1920)

MODERN SPANISH PAINTING

"VIEILLES LOIS ET FLEUR
NOUVELLE (BISCAYE)." BY
VALENTIN DE ZUBIAURRE

and Zurbaran. Every aspect of his soil with a bigness of vision which instinctively

and his race he penetrates, dissects and attains to the very limits of the tragic,

exalts magnificently; and he shows the there is ample room, and many are the

ineffaceable mark of that race even in his artists who occupy it. None have done so

portraits of personages having nothing in with more power and personality than the

common with the Castilian ideal. Between Zubiaurres. Hampered ever so slightly at

Sorolla—cosmopolitan, brilliantly super- the start by its suggestion of Zuloaga, this

ficial and endowed with an almost fantastic personality has long since come into the

manual facility which necessarily limits all full rights it enjoys to-day. 000
his subjects, whether people or landscapes

to a single aspect — and Zuloaga, in- The brothers Zubiaurre, in the eyes of

quisitionally deep and keen, and endowed all countries, beginning with their own, are

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