. International studio. asexpressed as over the Balzac, though the fury didnot rise to the same pitch, for the days of finefrenzy are well over. People were indignant notso much because their principles in art had beenviolated, but because the features of one of theirfavorite great men had not been treated with therespect they thought due to them. A few rooms off the portraits of M. JacquesBlanche in a retrospective collection providedthem with an opportunity to choose between twostyles of portrait painting. In fashionable circlesM. Van Dongen enjoys the favor which was be-stowed upon M. Jacqu
. International studio. asexpressed as over the Balzac, though the fury didnot rise to the same pitch, for the days of finefrenzy are well over. People were indignant notso much because their principles in art had beenviolated, but because the features of one of theirfavorite great men had not been treated with therespect they thought due to them. A few rooms off the portraits of M. JacquesBlanche in a retrospective collection providedthem with an opportunity to choose between twostyles of portrait painting. In fashionable circlesM. Van Dongen enjoys the favor which was be-stowed upon M. Jacques Blanche twenty yearsago, but among the critics the\r are neither of thempopular now. Yet M. Jacques Blanche respectsthe human face and has turned out many an ex-cellent portrait. The argument that M. VanDongen is disrespectful is nonsense, for he servesupon the public no more of that cancature-hkedeformation than it has been encouraging andapproving for years. In short, these sudden rever- eigfc ( MARCH 922 ? stumo. sions of opinion are ground- marquets astonishing marine at the The big Ingres benefit clis- . . „ SALON DAUTOMNE (l02l) I I J II less and unjust, buccess, play had a more didactic be it remembered, is nearly always disproportioned effect than that of the Dutch masters immediatelj to merits, and failure equally so to want of them. preceding it. For it is well known that Inures is While in Venice this autumn M. Van Dongen, the acknowledged loadstar of a large class of who has participated too actively in modern ten- young French artists. The opportunity was dencies in France to deserve repatriation to his seized upon for the justification of certain oft native country of Holland, preferred to interpret expounded theories. Andre Lhute, who used to the modern human life of the place as might have be an out and out cubist, has evolved according to done Watteau and Hogarth to attempting whatothers have done so well before him. But he alsobrought back some novel aspe
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