The daily sentinel., 1912-11-04
Aesoclated Press.

Associated Press.
Paris, Nov. 4.-The artistic strug-
gle being waEed in France has be-
come even more bitter since the open
ing Of the Autumn Salon. Not only
are the painters fighting among
themselves, but also the critics, ana
a certain extent, the public.
Unlike the Spring Salon. the
autumn exhibition of the fine arts is
always more or less controversial by
the very nature OF It's contributions.
OF the thirty-nine American artists
represented fifteen of whom are
women practically none comes un-
der the more severe condemnation
Of the French critics. On the South
hnps half that number several par
take a little of the extremely radical
variety. Bat even their products do
Americans, Of whom there are per-
not Justify the inclusion of the west
oIn hemisphere In the region denoted
by the critics as of the outer dark
ness Of barbarism.'
out OF more than six hundred and
ninety artists exhibiting perhaps
censorship The fact remains. how
ever, that public curiosity at the
works OF the thirty has drawn more
patronage than any legitimate in
thirty fall wfhin the terms of the
forest in the creations Of the remain
ing six hundred and sixty.
This year the presence of an un-
usually large number of works by
the three leading modern radical
and futurists has made the event
camps post improssionists, cubists
own more exciting than 1t was last
year, As a master Of fact only
small portion OF the works of paint
ing or sculpture exposed are by men
belonging to those schools. although
their eccentric vanvass and statues
get the lions share of attention from
visitors.
The best critics of the old school,
writing in such newspapers as lie
Temps" or "Le Figaro attribute a
new reason for the "madness" OF the
three schools II is that the men who
are painting those queer works in
Paris now are not FreuChmen. bless
ed with the excellence OF a strict
academic education, locally derived,
hut hurbarians from the great outer
darkness of Poland, Little Russia.
Bohemia, Hungary. Norway. Finland,
Siberia and so on. Their too sudden
immersion into the artistic atmns-
phcre of Paris gives them an inor-
dlna,e desire to express themselves
suddenly In some shape or other. and
because they have not the training
adeIuntr for expression through the
old recognized mediums they tackle
the problem in new way. Interesting
only for it's oddity, and get an en-
trely inCohoren, and iuartlCulate rc-
suit On their side, however, the radi-
Gals reply by pointing to the distingu-
ishCd master. Henri Matissc. who has
been hailed as the head and front OF
all their manifestations. as well US
TO the radical tradition In painting
which ran down through the late
years Of the nineteenth century in
France and which bonsted as it's
champions men now recognized as
the most notable creators OF their
period. only few years ago, say
the radicals, japanese prints looked
Just as queer as cubist works do now
II IS difficult to describe how the
new works look, unless II suffice to
say that whereas the post-impres-
si1nists paint figures and landscapes
with characters which remind one of
the drawings in a textbook of plane
geometry, the 'CUbists recall solid
geometry, and the futuTists the sort
OF angular smashed-up medly which
one discovers at the end OF a kaleid-
oscopic tube. realist details being
imaginable, It not actually discover
able, in the general haze and collis-
ion of colors and forms.
OF the special features attached to
the Salon-among which is an cXhi-
hitiOn of a number of well-known
nineteenth century portraits-by far
the moat interesting is display of
rooms, suites and little houses dec
GRATED after some OF the general prin-
ftnlag a hA la
of the modern painters whose works
are to be seen ia the main section of
for the most part. in angular furni-
ture and wall papers with every DOS
the show. The application consists,
sible arrangement of color on them.
Juvenile crime is increasing in an
alarming way in France, according
to the recently published statistics
OF the courts of justice for 1910.
Some Sc per cent of all persons
accused OF crime are minors. \ siG-
~. = L.