Part 9 (1/2)
Room 18 is better Note Marie Cazin's ”Diana Asleep” (289), done in a single brown Here, too, is Fla's ”Portrait of Madame Letellier”
(345) A soft, delicate bit of landscape is Brouillet's ”A in a corner One who has seen the Futurist pictures in the Annex should not overlook here Albert Guillaume's ”Le Boniment” (370), a rich burlesque on Futurist art
Italy--No other section in the Palace is so finely hung as the Italian As no attempt has been made to crowd the rooms, each canvas is properly placed Roos honored by the jury On the all is the work of Ettore tito, the winner of the grand prize, five canvases de both his versatility and his mastery of color On the north and south walls are the medal-of-honor pictures of Onorato Carlandi and Caolden tone Coromaldi's rich harvest scenes (26, 27), and a Leonardo Bazzaro (4) (both goldon the east wall Not to be overlooked, though passed by the jury, are Casciaro's warm landscapes on the north wall and Ricci's ”butterflies” (96), which help to make this collection one of splendid color
Roouti's ”Portrait in Red” (46) (gold medal) holds the place of honor on the all On the north wall is the glowing ”Fiametta” (49) by Matilde Festa Piacentini, wife of the architect of the Italian Pavilion, and beside it the equally warm ”Golden Rays” (47) by Ferretti On the east wall burns Traiano Chitarin's ”Evening Fires” (31) Aold reater portion of the sculpture, including Aoni's simple ”Adolescence” (151), Brozzi's spirited ”Animals” (155), in relievo on bronze, Graziosi's ”Susanna” (165), and Pagliani's ”On the Beach” (180) All of these won goldpiece in the room is ”Proximus Tuus” (162), the weary peasant, by Achille D'Orsi Of the few paintings nothing is very reh Bazzani's ”Arch of Septi for its workmanshi+p
Room 24 presents extremely varied styles from Morani's No 80 to Domenico Irolli's heavily painted ”Violin Player” (64), and Enrico Lionne's gorgeous purple figures in the extreht and shade appears in No 86, on the east wall Paolo Sala's ”Along the Thames” (100) deserves better place and notice Irolli, Lionne and Noold medallists
Roo as an exa This is best illustrated by the here hang four pictures by the three Ciardis, Beppe, Eroup ade ”Venetian Scene” (32) All three of the Ciardis won gold medals In the center of the north wall is a fine ruddy sunset (102) by Francesco Sartorelli The south wall is dominated by Z V Zanetti's richly decorative ”Tree” (116) Beside it, on the cut-off of the wall, is Guiseppe Mentessi's gripping ”Soul of the Stones” (75) Mentessi won the gold e Across the Lagoon” (10) Sculpture in this room is represented by small bronzes and Ernesobondi's aluay--The Uruguayan exhibit of painting and sculpture is in one sainst the all, next to France The work has characteristics in common with that of the south of Europe, and shows national feeling Manuel Rose (52-57) arded a goldUruguay, though sh of Leopoldo Roive hioldthe northern end of the United States Section, though desirous of appearing before the world as a ht here the most beautiful exao so far beyond the records of man that their authorshi+p is lost in darkness The exquisitely beautiful ink paintings on silk, the finest collection of these works in existence, represent the master painters of all the dynasties of China
Their subjects deal with tradition and religious precepts Precious cloisonne in heroic pieces has been used for the background of paintings There are picture-screens made of five or six attached panels of fine porcelain inlaid with cloisonne, and s and porcelains The 's ”Snow Scene” (348) in Roo, and Miss shi+n Ying-chin, and the exquisite carvings in seold medal winners, are in the same room
The Philippines, Room 98, by the all, have an exhibit which shows that their rounded a, spirit, all reveal themselves in the canvases
Crudity is apparent, but it corasp the significance of the subject Many pictures are fla subjects handled with great boldness; what they lack in finish they o's contributions (10-20) won hiold medal
Sweden--The achievements of Sweden, Rooms 99-107, next to China, have surprised everybody That country has sent the most distinctively national of all the European exhibits Swedish artists are stay-at-homes, and their pictures are filled with the Scandinavian love of country The scenes and portraits are all Swedish, from Carl Larsson's intimate pictures of family life and forest picnics (see p
126), or Bruno Liljefors' great paintings of thelittle illustrations of Swedish goblin tales No one who has viewed the snow scenes of Anshelet the impression of cold and impenetrable depth Swedish painters are heroic in enerous in the size of their canvases Some of the pictures, in fact, like ”The Swans” (202) by Liljefors, are too large to be seen to the best advantage in the srand prize, and Gustav Fjaestad the rand prize for water color Anna Boberg, Roos have alon her honor hitherto, is without award This famous painter is the wife of the architect of the fine Swedish Pavilion The jury offered her a silverrefused to accept it
Spain is to have an excellent exhibit in the Annex building behind the Palace Thus far Portugal alone represents the Iberian painters The collection fills three roouese artists infuse the spirit of revelry into much of their work
Indeed, it sometimes approaches the bacchanalian The work is of the extreh, technically, there is , perhaps, is the splendid representation in ht that beats upon that Southern country No more vivid examples of this can be found in the collection than Malhoa's ”Returning from the Festival” (54) and his ”Catholic Procession in the Country” (56)
Malhoa, deservedly, captured the grand prize for Portuguese art The single ado for his scenes of Minho The portraits, too, have much of the intensity of the South The most noteworthy are those by Colurand prize at St Louis The four rooal prolific of artists who seek beauty in scenes of doentina--It is interesting to note that the painters of Portugal show more characteristics in common with those of South Ahbors Their execution is more tamed than that of the Filipino painters, their style entine That is not to the discredit of the Argentinos, who, though a new people, have accomplished much that deserves praise
Their exhibit, in Rooress of art in so new a country, and it is said to be representative The artists whose works are shown are al men, a fact which, in connection with their perfor free and original in the future Three pictures by Antonio Alice, Nos 1, 2, and 3, have been awarded the reat versatility Jorge Ber No 5, ”The Daughter of the Hacienda,” is wrongly entitled in the official catalog ”The Young Landlady” Others in the collection suffer in the saued as ”The Old Stall” So expositions of the spirit of the paht” (35) As a whole, the paintings are significant of the country of their painters, a truly worthy quality The sculpture in this room, particularly ”Increase and Multiply” (75), by Pedro Zonza Briano (medal of honor), and a splendid Indian portrait (32), by Alberto Lagos (gold medal), is admirable
The International Room, No 108, on the east wall between Sweden, Holland and Portugal, contains but a sn pictures Its chief feature is the exhibit of Gerel's ”In the Rhine Meadows” (549), both winners of the ” (3), and Leo Putz' ”The Shore” (387), gold-medal pictures, are worthily characteristic of Germany's best art ”El Cristo de los Andes,” by E W
Christ The bulk of the pictures under ”International Section” are in the Annex
Holland, in Rooms 113-116, shows an art so different in its characteristics froht be at the other end of the earth Where the Swedish artists show boldness, sometimes almost to the point of crudeness, the Dutch are intent on soree of finish Modernity of color is apparent, and while there are few strokes that indicate timidity, there are fine touches of the poetic in which the Hollander's heart shows its love of horeat tulip beds are real and luscious Family life in the Netherlands is shown in several fine interiors, and the portraits by Dutch artists are rand prize in the Netherlands section went to Breitner's snowy ”Amsterdam Timber Port”
(17) Bauer's ”Oriental Equestrian” (7) won the iven to seven artists, nahly delightful portion of the art exhibit is the sculpture shown in the colonnades and on the grounds of the Palace This is the first tireat exhibit has been displayed in such ato the effectiveness of the sculpture, wherever the pieces have been designed to be erected out of doors It has been possible to show much of the fountain sculpture in its actual relation to real fountains, and to give the hunters and Indians, the nyrounds In addition to the contemporaneous sculpture there are soht froo, and the copy of Bartlett's equestrian Lafayette A works shown is a group by C L Pietro, of New York, ”The Mother of the Dead,”--a powerful story in bronze of the burden which the war has brought to wo is worthy of an older artist Another huure by Attilio Piccirilli (p 136) Char bits of comedy are the whimsical little fountain pieces by Janet Scudder and Anna Coleman Ladd The honor-winners in sculpture are na list
Awards
Awards have been completed and announced by the Fine Arts juries in all sections except the French The following list includes all the grand prizes, old medals The numerous silver and bronzethe names indicate the rooms where the work may be found
United States Section--