International studio . inters of peasants have inflicted on a credu- lous public as an excuse for colour canvas and Oda Teters Mother andChild were hung at the Charlottenborg Peters ]jicture expresses, in simplifiedIjeauty and with feminine feeling, MotherLove. These pictures are fairly representative ofthe tendency of younger Danish painters—asincere search for that which gives a work ofart aesthetic value—the really significant—andelimination of the superfluous and that whichhinders expression. Such a synthesis seems tojustify the demands of the Synchronists for apure
International studio . inters of peasants have inflicted on a credu- lous public as an excuse for colour canvas and Oda Teters Mother andChild were hung at the Charlottenborg Peters ]jicture expresses, in simplifiedIjeauty and with feminine feeling, MotherLove. These pictures are fairly representative ofthe tendency of younger Danish painters—asincere search for that which gives a work ofart aesthetic value—the really significant—andelimination of the superfluous and that whichhinders expression. Such a synthesis seems tojustify the demands of the Synchronists for apure art of painting analogous to that ofmusic, eliminating or subordinating objectiverepresentation to festhetic arrangement of col-our and abstract form. Einar Hansens Por-trait of Mrs. F., awarded Honorable Mention,at the Chicago Institute, 1918, shows a simi-lar simplification of treatment in portraitureresulting in a rare intensity of feeling andcharacter, which far surpasses a more photo-graphic Courtesy tlie ISUNLIGHT Sll.^i ii\ \ IlKMv cilAlvlvl. KiN v\
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