International studio . and Strind-herg in dealing with the usually avoided\et most \ital problems of life. And, witht he exception of such purely individualisticj;eniuses as Whistler, no art or writing ofto-day can live that does not reflect in spiritthe big problems the world is trying to period is one of introspection the worldover, and no creative work can legitimatelyevolve from present-day conditions without evi-dence of this state of the universal mind. And it isin this analytical tendency that lies the hope of thefuture. The unfortunate tiling is that people aremisled by words
International studio . and Strind-herg in dealing with the usually avoided\et most \ital problems of life. And, witht he exception of such purely individualisticj;eniuses as Whistler, no art or writing ofto-day can live that does not reflect in spiritthe big problems the world is trying to period is one of introspection the worldover, and no creative work can legitimatelyevolve from present-day conditions without evi-dence of this state of the universal mind. And it isin this analytical tendency that lies the hope of thefuture. The unfortunate tiling is that people aremisled by words. We use words that are quiteinadequate to convey our full meaning. Art andpoetry to most people do not signify two branch-es of human expression evolving from conditionspeculiar to each period and which can never berepeated, but concrete and isolated things doneaccording to a formula, and when I emphasizethe idea so much I do not mean that the ideashorn of a-sthetic accomplishment is sufficient, but Iguacio ZuloiXi^a. UV UNCLE DANIEL AM) FAMILY BY IGNACIO ZILdACA that the dominating tendencies of our period mustinspire our art, and that in addition it must beinterpreted by the technical and imaginativecapacity of a master. Spanish artists of all timeshave made use of the intensity of the nationaltemperament to give their art dramatic temperament is not confined to the is everywhere, in the cities and villages, in thenatural landscape, in the blue of the sky and theclouds, the .sculptural forms of the rocks withtheir eroded maze-like tracks forming billows thatroll away and seem to become part of the cloudsof similar forms are all mysterious and dramatic. Let us now turn for a moment to some of thepaintings here reproduced. It would be difficult to say whether Zuloaga isgreater in his figures or landscape |)ainting, somuch are they akin, so similar is the feeling thatpervades both. His landscapes may be describedas pictures without figures. In his
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