Studio: international art (84.1922)

STUDIO-TALK

case of the Brabantine farm, the model was
one which Mons. Roidot had made for
his own children, and was offered by him
to " Jouet Beige " in 1916 for the use of
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At a General Assembly of the Royal
Academy on November 23, Sir Bertram
Mackennal, A.R.A., sculptor, was elected
an Academician, and Mr. George Lambert
and Mrs. Annie Swynnerton, painters,
were elected Associates. Both Sir Ber-
tram Mackennal and Mr. Lambert are
Australians, though both have practised in
England for many years. The election of
Mrs. Swynnerton marks a new and im-
portant departure from Royal Academy
tradition,for though when the Academywas
founded two women—Angelica Kauffman
and Mary Moser—were among the founda-
tion members, the candidature of women

artists has in the long interval been persist-
ently discountenanced. In at length yield-
ing to public opinion in this matter and fall-
ing into line with other leading art societies
the Academy has, we think, acted wisely.

BERLIN.—Though there is a doubt as
to the precise form which art is
taking to-day in Russia, it is quite certain
that both the pre-revolution individualistic
tendency and the immediate post-revolu-
tion romantic trend have momentarily
disappeared. Their place is now occu-
pied by a tendency to which the name
" Proletcult " {i.e., Proletarian Culture)
has been given. It is a term which
seems to get on the nerves of the new
Intelligentsia in Russia. I have met
several who argue, perhaps not without
reason, that there is no such thing as