The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-23
BY HARRIET MONROE.

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BY HARRIET MONROE.
T~ HE insurgents in art will take possession of New
York tomorrow, French post-impressionists
bsts, etc, italian futurists German secession
ists-a the various groups of foreign radicals
will be represented at international exhibition which
will open tomorrow at the Lexington armory.
The new Association of American Painters and Sculp
tors, which arranged this exhibition represents the
large and important group of artists against
the hdebound methods and conservative standards of
older societies like the National Academy Design and
the American Artists and of the managers of annual
exhibitions in cities like New York, Chicago Pittsburgh
Washington, and Philadelphia,
Thus the new association organized under the
presidency of Arthur B. Davies of the most orig
inal and imaginative of American painters, who is
represented at the Art institute by one of his finest
pictures Maya, the Mirror of Illusions" presented by
the Friends of American Art Mr. Davies, with Walt
Kuhn the secretary of the association, spent last
in Europe looking exhibits for the'present show
Their aim to introduce to America artists living
and dead who influencing the thought in art,
hitherto crossed the sea- and they In
cluded also certain familiar like Della
crox, Degas, Renoir, Monet, Manet etc
They began with that stern old classieist of the first
empire Ingres. who, say is much respected
by the modern radicals though lie would rise from hs
if he could hear of their allegiance Ingres is not
view of him for many visitors.
From Ingres and the familiar masters above
mentioned tomorrows exhibition will pass to the
called post-impressonsts.
Dead Trio Claimed as Founders.
The three dead painters whom the modern radicals
now claim as the founders of this Paul
[1S391906l, the shabby French vagabond who
was neglected while he lived; Vincent Van Gogh the
half insane Flemish recuse and suicide [1S491S90l and
Paul Gaugun 1S4S-1903l, the disreputable world
derer. For better worse" says c. Lewis Hind in
his book, The Post tImpressoniss [Methuen & Col,
these three have exercised enormous influence
upon les ieunes the continent especially In France
Russia and Germany Scandinavia, and at last Great
Britain Although the Salon des Independents, which
opened in Paris in 1884 began the citadel of the
neo-mpressoniss farntipg their orihamme, it is the
post-mpressoniss who lattery captured it, There the
widest orgies of the followers have been exhibited
These three dead masters-the sage, the rebel, and
the barbarian--w for their introduction Amer
ica each separate gallery of the twenty into
which the floor of the armory is to be divided. The
same honor is to be accorded to Matisse and Redon
who also unfamiliar here. However, we have
heard much Of Matsse, who may be called the leader
of the movement it is today in Paris.
These desire to express the sensation OBJ
ect presents to them the imitation of it; to get
effect their sensation, they color apparently
Quarrel as TO Success or Failure.
For a decade two European art critics and
nosseurs have been quarreing to the
failure these Now the discussion will doubt
less be taken up this side of the Besides
Matisse and Redon shall have Picasso and other
cubiss group of italian futursts, Peaba the Span
lard, Brancusi the sculptor one of whose egg shaped
marble heads is here reproduced; Scurat, Sgnac, Lad
tree Maillol, and other Frenchmen.
The German seeessionists will be generously repre-
sented the sculptor Lehmbruck being one of the most
extreme. From Great Britain the delegation will in
clude Of the most prominent present day artists
who are however, more conservative than their
mental rivals.
Among the Americans who will send 1900 of the
1000 works to be shown Albert Pynkham Ryder
n great American master who rarely exhibits; Arthur
b. Davies, Chide Hassam, Jerome Myers c. H. Davis,
Leon Dabo, Jonas Sie Elmer L. Mac Rae, Robert
Henri Karl Anderson, Alfred Maurer, and other well
known painters whose ideas and practice of art though
mild in comparison with those of the foreign fire
adventurous enough place them in the advanced
American group
In sculpture George Gray Barnard the two Borg
lums, Mahonr Young and 10 Davidson belong to the
class. And youth will be present in force, the
men. whose volcanic ideas doubt will soon give
the world of another jolt make post
Ism a back number.