The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-04
FRENCH PAINTER VISITS Us
LIE SIDAUER TO III a JUDGE Ar
THE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE.
TalAs 9 Little 20 Present Day M0yemsn:s
IN the Art &C Hls liOme land-I1kes
New Tsrk bot REGRETS That We HAVE
Ne Architecture that's An Our Own.

IN the Art &C Hla HOme Land-I1kes
New Tsrk but Regrets Thai We HaNe
No Architecture That's An Our Own.
Henri u Sidauer. who 10 to be one of
tia Judges at the forthcoming exhibition
Of the Carnegie Institute in PittsbuTG. il
at tho Holland House This - NJ Ia
Sidauar's FIRST visit to tho United States.
He IL a member Of the Societe Rationale
do BaAux Arts.
The Carnegie Institute has ons we'll
known example Of NJ. 10 Sidauer's work.
his Moonlight on tho Grand Canal. "
and his paintings aro ssen at every Paris
salon. Al tho last his paintings Of Lake
MAGgiors attracted much attention.
n. 10 SidAuer was born on the island Of
MauritiIa. in the'IIdian Ocean. his father
bsing q French merchant who was in
buainsas there When tho son was ~
years old the family removed to France.
Tho elder Ls Sidluer was an amateur
sculptor. and from him the son Inherited
a love Of art lie took up the study u
painting whom he was IS years old. at the
Ecols do Beaux Arts. whsrs one u his
masters Was Cabnnel For many years
NJ. 10 Sidauer has made his home in the
old fortress of Csrbsroy. which was
4
site 81 a muchsmorp ancient fortiiicHtiOn
There ho has a HOUSE, which was erected
IN the eigh teeenth century and won
derful garden, both Of which are inside
tho old fort. He has often made his house
and garden the subject 81 pictures. and
in the Luxembourg there ars two views
Of them.
NJ le Sidauer in appa rently about 90.
or perhaps a little over. He wears a
pointed beard and a SLOUGH hot and IL
~ q
| Ptttaburg tomorrow and sail hack to
| France in ten days
i know many American artists said
| NJ II Sidauer yesterday hut thsro seem
20 bs very few left In Paris nowadays ]
mean the prominent ones Of course
do not know whether they have come back
TO thair own country or whether they
have settled elsewhere The fact that ]
| live away from PARIS and get there only
occasionally has prevented my getting
| TO know many of the younger ONES
The movement in French art I should
describe az present a. rather mIxed.
4 The tmpresNionistic movement that be-
/ gan about twelve years ago was a splendid
one. II in now completely defined 10y
which | mean not that IL j. inis shed hut
that 10 In accomplished But there ~ a
tendency now To express things from the
outside appearance. 60 give the same
enect that some great masters have been
able To convey from the inside without 80
much attention To correct draughtsman-
ship perhaps as 10 effect. For INSTANCE. to
| illustrate what mean. take the celebrated
| painting Of the Annunciation 10y Fra
/ Angelica ia the monastery OF San Marco
al Florence. The Virgin ~ represented
| with her hands folded. and YOU feel the
resignation and submission IA thos'
hands and the spirituality. though
| the painter painted from within. a. IL
were. and paid little regard To whether
! the hands were correctly formed \
modern pa inter has obtained the same
effect by painting from without as tWere.
and thetendency IN Frnnce now seems
] TO be To paint things as they really are
1 To get exact proportions Ia portray the
! caressinR effect Of light as Il really Is
and cOlors as nature exhibits them -
{ in brief TO arrive at the same results by
expressing from the exterior what some
Of the old masters expressed from the
| Interior.
Il have not been long enough in New
York to make up my mind whether ]
| should call u artistic or not. II i'm
/ presses Ins mainly by the marvellous
size Of its buildings and the way in which
[ your architects have taken the archi-
I lecture OF other countries and other ages
and ada pied then To- the great towerin <
structures of New York displaying a
facility m ada ptatlon which would Doubt
less sta gRer the originatOrs OF the ancient
schools and the Renaissance. II j. admir-
able. and ! think the great white tower
near herr ~ wonderfully i~aut'fIIl
structure Al the same time " - a pItv
that with the need that your great build
inka bring about there should not have
grown zap a school 81 architecture that
il new and distinCtively American
when the inspiration for IL seems AZ hand. .