. International studio. and do all their farm work withoxen, and they all wear whitecanvas sandals instead of shoes, BASQUE STUDYBY KAMIKO ARRUE Arrue is another. Both comefrom the Spanish side of theand are able to mountains which form the national boundary carry heavy weights on their heads. They build between France and Spain, but which, in truth,their houses in a style oi their own, and though are no boundary to the ancient race of the Basques. some are French citizens,and the rest Spanish, yetthey all have the nationalcharacteristics and types ofthe Basque country. Theyare very fond of bu
. International studio. and do all their farm work withoxen, and they all wear whitecanvas sandals instead of shoes, BASQUE STUDYBY KAMIKO ARRUE Arrue is another. Both comefrom the Spanish side of theand are able to mountains which form the national boundary carry heavy weights on their heads. They build between France and Spain, but which, in truth,their houses in a style oi their own, and though are no boundary to the ancient race of the Basques. some are French citizens,and the rest Spanish, yetthey all have the nationalcharacteristics and types ofthe Basque country. Theyare very fond of bull-lights,which they have adoptedfrom their neighbors. These people, who danceso well, and whose customsare almost antique, whosemen are so muscular andwhose women are so big,naturally produce artists;and before the war theBasque painters formed agroup ol considerable im-portance, publishing an ex-cellent magazine of theirown. Maestu, who has beenso successful in London, is aBasque painter and Ramiro. BASQUE STUDY BY KAMIKO ARKl E In spite of their commonnationality and the factthat they are friends, noth-ing could be more unlikethan the art of these twomen. Both do their workin their native land, buteach sees it through themirror of his own delights in exag-gerating, through sometheatrical instinct, the sizeof his native women; butArrue sees deeper into theimmemorial characteristicsof his native country. Ramiro Arrue is a youngman, chiefly self-taught,who has the modern spiritand the desire for extremesimplicity in art, as well asthe Chinese tendency to see n i nety-eigbt april 1922 meet: i
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