Studio: international art (86.1923)

STUDIO-TALK

PAIR OF CANDLESTICKS
BY H. TYSON SMITH

LIVERPOOL.—Ml'. H. Tyson Smith
is one of the few sculptors present
Liverpool can boast. His work is grave
and dignified, with a well-balanced mixture
of early classic and modernist feeling. In
war memorials and tablets, as well as in
metal work (of which the two candlesticks
reproduced are examples) he has made a
definite and charming contribution to art.
If Liverpool wisely establishes the Com-
mittee of Taste already advocated, it is to
artists of this calibre that she must look
for guidance. J. W. S.

SALISBURY.—An Exhibition of Posters
and Advertising Designs was recently
held at the School of Art, Salisbury. The
Head Master gathered together a number
of the best examples of this type of work ;
thereby giving the students a definite
criterion by which their future efforts might
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be judged and indicating the goal towards
which their endeavours should be directed.
Practical methods of instruction such as this
might well be copied elsewhere, a 0

PARIS.—The habitual visitor to Paris
whose interest lies in those things
pertaining to art and the artists will note
the rapid changes which occur in her lanes
and streets each succeeding year, the
disappearance of old shop frontages and
quaint signs, many of which have fas-
cinated one historically as well as artistically,
and, alas! in not all instances are the changes
in any way attractive other than by their
commonplace or over-pretentious designs.
However, within the last year or two the
value of the genuine in art is being more

SHOP FRONT, PARIS
BY CH. S ICLIS