New-York tribune., 1912-04-07
ART STUDENTS IN REVOLT
coouIike Portraits and UnCanny
Landscapes in "Fake Show
TREATMENT EXTRAORDINARY
vo.t .Prandialists Vie with I'M
nressionists and Futurists
in Painting.

~ dint of many puns. much paint ano
,itv the annual art revolt OF the Art
.,,5or,s' League broke out yesterday in the
q, a weird array of gooplike portraits
~. uncanny landscapes that the most
S.,,ca, devotecs of the impressionistic,
.,,rr,s, or post-prandialist schools Of paint
-, might or might not be willing to sqlao'
n,s for. To those not familiar with the
so.t.nrandialist school Of painting 1t may
.,nlained that it has TO do mostly with
.,,,rs often seen after eating Holsters ami
,orsbits before retiring
The nost-prandialists seemed TO have me
..,,er Of the revolt as represented by Jhs
.,ate show Of the Society OF American
rotirs" Yesterday at No. 215 West 5Ith
tract II was not really opened yesterday
the preparations for the opening on Mon
,.v we're revealed for the eyes Of the press
md the Jury also sat on the pictures,
.or,e NJ which looked it. and awarded the
,r,zss for the most successful horrors pro-
s,ced bv brush, palette knife and carpen-
..r. tools. The revolters were not all con-
,en, 10 produce their effects in tho two Gi-
mansions OF a plane surface. but reached
out and took indiscriminate still life objects
into their pictures and kept them there by
rsus and things-safety pins and string. If
the artist were feminine.
The results were in the nature. or such
MAS the prevalent belief, OF caricature
"con,es" Of perfectly nice pictures on dis
nlay downstairs in the National Academy
y, Design. The jury that sat on them
damage to Jury not reported: To pictures
dIsreearded) decided that the most sue
c.ssful monstrosity was one on THE Pas
ssuI" by Mrs. Dewing. The copy" was
entitled "Everybody's Dewing IT.; bore the
signature Tits A. Beer" ; represented q
long. sinewy woman in the throes Of q
turkey trot, and was conceived. executed
and entered III the fakes class by A. .
Titus
The second prize winner belonged more
strictly to the above mentioned post-pran'
dalist school being a caricature of The
Foreign Entry A racing subject, by VIII
lam j. Hays. The copy" by J. A Carl
son. represented a purple horse. with form
like a dachshund, or worse, stretching out
a long neck to get under the wire. II was
one OF the kind. too. in which carpenter
work came In handy. for the horses necS
could not find room in the picture proper
hut protrudcd out into space on an eXteH-
,lon
The third prize was one in which there
was some of the mo pity" beins a dis
torted copy OF a portrait by NJ. Jean Nc
Lane Of Mrs. Henry Hammond and her
Young daughter. entitled Ham And" IT
was by A. T. Bradley, president OF the
Fakirs.
Among other efforts AZ soul-destroying
fakes which got more or less honorable
mention by the jury was copy OF the
Poison Pool" desert scene. by ". 4.
Leigh The copy" represented William
Jennings Bryan holding Colonel Roosevelt
hack from drli King the brackish waters,
while the portrait OF Taft looked s-nilingiy
IN from the background. 1t was entitled
Poison Politics
A copy Of "Beauvais Cathedral ap-
reared In the form of bunch OF asparagus;
the Coming Shower" was shown as man
IN a bathtub turning on the refreshing deluge
from the needle bath above, and truly
futurlst effect was presented In battle
scene by Eddie" Hindel. The futurists are
.aid TO present i'm their pictures not things
as they are seen, but as they are felt. This
IDEAL was faithfully adhered TO in the battle
scene, for the soldiers had clearly gone all
10 pieces and were lying about the grounds
in instalments.
As matter Of plain information, the
fake show" is an exhibition bazaar and
entertainment 10 be opened Monday after
noon by the Art Students League, and VIII
continue for four days The purpose Is to
raise funds 10 maintain art scholarships FOR
needy students