. International studio. d to be the specialadvantage of the schoolsIt is obviously the workof a man with definitesympathies in the matterof period and style. But,because it is combinedwith principles derivedfrom practice, instead ofacademizing lus art thescholarship has only keptit more elastic. In practice he has ar-rived at a general style64 of painting which is not only individual andhappily placed, as between a realistic and adecorative interpretation of nature, but ispeculiarly well adapted to the needs and con-ditions of life as it is lived to-day—an importantadvantage, often overlooked.
. International studio. d to be the specialadvantage of the schoolsIt is obviously the workof a man with definitesympathies in the matterof period and style. But,because it is combinedwith principles derivedfrom practice, instead ofacademizing lus art thescholarship has only keptit more elastic. In practice he has ar-rived at a general style64 of painting which is not only individual andhappily placed, as between a realistic and adecorative interpretation of nature, but ispeculiarly well adapted to the needs and con-ditions of life as it is lived to-day—an importantadvantage, often overlooked. The picture ob-viously painted for exhibition is not the onlypicture that is out of touch with life. There arepictures that seem to imply for their settingthe stuffy dining-room or overcrowded drawing-room that most of us have outgrown; and,on the other hand, there are pictures that cryout for the cave that few of us, even theyoungest, would seriously prefer. The picturesof Mr. Baves assume the domestic interior that. BY WALTER BAVES,
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