Studio: international art (85.1923)

STUDIO-TALK

PORTRAIT. BY THEO-
PHILE ROBERT

(Salon d’Automne, Paris)

best contribution this year was March
Snow. Mr. Robinson had four views of
French Quebec, simple in form and
delicate in colour. Mr. Lismer showed
two large landscapes with a bold, rather
hard, treatment, but with a sense of
design. The Toronto school is alive and
sincere. By dint of hammering away, its
members have broken down the old
prejudices, and their art is now almost
accepted. But their weakness is technique.
They do not put their paint on well
enough. Their pictures show joy of
colour, joy of pattern, joy of nature, but
very little joy of paint. Amongst the new
men Mr. Holgate stands out. Indeed, he
shows more strength and better “ paint ”

than many of his seniors. A deeper
sympathy will come in time. At present
he can draw and he is not afraid of colour.

Mr. A. Scott Carter, the newly elected
associate, had a well-executed page of
illumination, and Mr. W. J. Phillips
several pleasant woodcuts, so these so-
called “ minor ” arts are not being entirely
neglected. But Canada wants a few mad
painters, who can paint. If she had them she
would starve them. Ramsay Traquair.

PARIS.—At the last Salon d'Automne,
changing tendencies were apparent.
There were not more than a dozen pictures
to gratify the curiosity of the sensation-
seeker, and not so much as half a dozen

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