Studio: international art (80.1920)

MODERN SPANISH PAINTING

"LES RAMEURS VAINQUEURS "
BY RAMON DE ZUBIAURRE

Van der Paele has done nothing better
than these faces—glorified in their wrinkles
and shrivellings—of Grands Seigneurs et
Mendiants, of the Type de Salamanque or
L'Oncle Saturo de Segovie. Is this imitations'
Or a desire to revive a minute style, on
account of its recognised effect i Not at
all! Renewal of a devotion, if you will;
resumption of a spirit which, after so many
centuries of synthesis and generalisation,
takes delight anew in prolonged and search-
ing analysis, in the slow realisation of the
soul through the medium of all its external

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And this analysis is never cold or dry.
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Attempted a froid it would be impossible.
How find the necessary patience, save in
ecstasy i How choose that which must be
chiefest and foremost unless the choice be
first made in the depths of one's heart i
There is something enveloping these faces
—something in the immutability of their
identical expression—which makes this
clear to us ; and the manner in which' the
humble lace-work of the altar, crudely set
up for The Victims of the Sea, justifies
what one may style the " graving " of the
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And the most remarkable thing in the
work of Valentin de Zubiaurre, the thing