Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-08-06

favorable criticisms of the Travellers -
shows.
One Of the most interesting groups Of
Russian artists is that known as the
admiration was awakened for the queer
old Russian buildings and their pictorial
possibilities. When one thinks of the
respect which early architecture COM
mands in other countries It is surprising
to find the same sentiment in Russia still
in its infancy. Georgi Lukomski Is
probably the most talented of these re-
trospectivists. His feeling for compost
ton and decoration combined with his
crisp architectural style give his cam
vases an inevitable quality unsurpassed
by the other men working on the same
lines.
Lukomski. Furthermore. has only ex-
hibfted two years; he is twentysix. still
studying in the academy and is also
Journalist on the Apollon. Roerich is
another retrospectivist, who paints
towns as they might have been during
the days of the old scribes. In this
group. Douboujinski is salient as a paint
er with sense of humor. One of his
canvases tells the story of "A Month in
the Village by Turgenieff. with gentle
satire. Douboujinski Is a handsome
Pole, born in Wilno about thirty years
ago. Many Of the finest scenes painted
for the Moscow Theater-the standard of
scene painting in Russia, is very high
are his work.
VI the pOSt-lmpreSSlOnlStS, MarttrOS
Sarian, Turkish Russian, has created
much discussion. In his pictures the
trees look like parrots, the people like
penguins and the blues and yellows in
which they are painted look like colors
recently added to the spectrum. When
his work was first exhibited din of
abuse arose in ST. Petersburg. However
since prominent Moscow gallery pur-
chased several of his pictures cult has
grown up around Sarian. Another post
m let ylrhn MI hr,n Enc
is Oulianow.
While looking at his picture called THE
Swing" you get the gasp which only
Coney Island amusement is supposed to
provide. The swing, hung from some
thing outside the picture frame, is on the
descent from foamy clouds to foaming
sea and its occupants clothed in cherry
and orange colored garments, clutch the
ropes with frenzied abandon. The mean
ing and effect Of Oulianow's post-impres-
sionism is unmistakable
There are two Russian artists worthy
Of mention. who have peculiar earmarks.
But this doesn't mean that they are
freaks any more than it means William
Chase is a freak when one associates him
with paintings of uncooked fsh-or Dew
ing with portraits or wan women drink
ing tea. Bogaewski. an artist living in
the Crimea is identified with landscapes
of lonely waste places surrounded by
mountains; figures of animals or human
beings are never found in his pictures,
a fact which has given him the name of
the Silent artist.
The work of Andrei Tokarew is equally
individual. His canvases are dim, small,
square and painted in the manner preva-
lent over a century ago. In an exhibit
of modern painting a Tokarew stands
out as the Bible would II placed on a
shelf Of Bernard Shaw.
Victor WaSnieZow. the chief mural
decorator in Russia. is represented in the
exhibit by a single canvas. A group Of
eleventh century soldiers on the crest Of
a hill are chanting a funeral hymn in
honor of their fallen leader. One of the
largest churches in kieff has been re-
Gently decorated by Wasniezow
OF the Russian sculptors. Anna
Gouloubkina. Sudbinine and konenkow
are considered the greatest. konenkow
seems to embody the quintessence of
Russian artistic genius in his work
Most of his figures are wooden images
of strange mythical folk he has dreamed
of as imprisoned in the trees of the
forest. And like the great trees from
which they are liberated. they have
sheltering kindness, dignity.
strength. perennial youth, that call
the pagan to worship them.
(Copyright 1911. in the United States by Curtis
Brown. AL British rights reserved)