Studio: international art (88.1924)

ARGENTINA—TOKYO

Laszlo, Shannon, Dagnan-Bouveret, and
Renoir, interpreted the Argentine grande
dame. There were half-a-dozen Laszlo's
on the walls of the new Franz van Riel
Salon, a private gallery admirably planned
for light and space, and opened by H.E.
with the exhibition under consideration.
Perhaps the most interesting was a portrait
of Sra. Lisa Quintana de Hirsch, where the
artist has happily caught that subtle
something which lends so distinctive a
charm to the head, bent a little forward,
the well-modelled shoulders, and the
graceful fall of the drapery. The late
Sir J. J. Shannon's presentment of Sra.
Isabel Hope de Duggan shows excellent
work in this artist's best manner.
Noticeable, too, was a careful and almost
loving child-portrait by the Irish-Peruvian
artist, Albert Lynch, very pleasing in the
faultless drawing of the small head with
its wealth of dark brown hair, the depth
of expression in the eyes, and the
nacarine flesh tints of a striking brunette
type of Argentine beauty. Space forbids
more than the merest mention of such
works as Anders Zorn's picture of the
children of Sra. Errazuriz Alvear, the
Hungarian painter Sigall in an effective,
if fantastic treatment of the portrait of
Sra. Becu de Ayerza, the two Zuloaga
pictures, and the many other intimate
things of men like Flameng, Chaplin,
Helleu, Ortiz Echague, and others whose
names, familiar enough in the galleries of
London and Paris, are seldom read at
the foot of a picture in Buenos Aires.
Love for paintings is, however, growing
in this new and somewhat material
milieu, and one may hope that this exhib-
ition will later be followed up by a loan
collection of the many notable works of
divers genres that are known to be in
the possession of private owners in this
city. H. H. H.

TOKYO.—The Tokyo Academy of Fine
Arts (Tokyo Bijutsu Gakko), situated
in Uyeno Park, recently held its 33rd
Commencement exercises, when diplomas
were given to 99 graduates as follows :
Fourteen in the Nippon style and 27 in
the Western style of painting, five in clay
sculpture, one in architecture, two in
metal works, five in metal casting, five in

" SRA. BECU DE AYERZA "
BY J. SIGALL. (Buenos
Aires Exhn. of Portraiture)

lacquer works and 22 in the normal course
in painting and drawing equipped to
teach pictorial art in secondary schools,
besides eight graduates in special courses.

An interesting fact to be observed is the
absence of any graduate in the regular
course of wood sculpture (with but one
special student who completed the course
this year) though that department is well
equipped with competent teachers. The
art of wood carving has been developed
to such a degree that the country can
well boast of having produced, and of
possessing in the museums and temples,
the finest specimens of wood sculpture
that could be found anywhere in the
world. Even now works of surpassing
beauty are turned out from time to time in
that medium, but it is an old art of the
country and it has disadvantages in various
exhibitions of contemporary arts. The in-
troduction of clay modelling has helped the
development of modern wood sculpture.

In painting, for some time it had been
difficult for the art school to get a full
membership in the Nippon style of
painting, while the department of European
style of painting has been flooded with
applications for entrance, there often
being many times more than the school
could accommodate. Such a tendency

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