Evening star., 1924-04-06

sters like Gaudonzi. Castorati taca-
demic), and Romagnoii (very fine.
tending toward the new. And great,
made men
Tito. an Italian who is the living
image of J. :. Sargent. pants very
much like him" says Saint-Gaudens.
mot consciously. for Tito is too i'm
portant to copy anybody. ] am TAX
ing lot of stock in the Italians and
Spanish
He cites Brass OF Venice, Emma
and Boppi Ciadi. brother and sister:
Pomi, Busetti. Natal, Maggi and i
dozen more 1t seems that Besnard.
the F'renchman twho was formerly
head of the Villa Medici. French gov
ernment art school at Romel. is
strong, too, for these Italians.
The great Besnard.
The first news Of the French end
of this show is that Besnard. peasant
head of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in
Paris, Is coming to Pittsburgh. on the
jury of awards.
Bonnard has sent three pictures.
He is the big official painter of
France. Bernard Boutet dc Monval.
great son OF an illustrious father.
sends a picture-Carnegie bought his
exhibit last year.
From France equally, there will be
Maurice Denis Important fellow to
lead the youngsters), three radicals,
Derain, Matisse and Picasse: DesVal-
lieres (religious painter). Marie Lau-
rencin (of tho Matisse group, two
extreme academies, Pierre Laurens
and Ernest Laurent; Henry Lerelle,
fine old conservative, and lie Sidinar,
another
With these come Letiren and Andre
Mare, two radicals, Henri Mar tin,
whom Saint-Gaudens calls a conserv-
ative; Marquet, mildly advanced; Men
ard, an old conservatives; Ottman,
pretty strong radical; Lucien Simon.
radical but not advanced: Prinet.
conservative, and Signac, president
of the independents.
x :; :; y
LEAR, now, the last word of Car
negie. 'It is not for US, in this
exhibition" says Saint-Gaudens, ito
pick and earmark any one special
group or tendency. We are getting the
acknowledged leaders of all acknowl-
edged schools whether or not we
personally like them or have no use
for them at all.
"Stick them up, Let the public
Judge what they think fine and beau
tiful the real standard"
"Is the public fit to judge?" asked
THE public is never going to be
fit to judge, unless it is allowed to
try" he answered "You are never
going to walk unless your nurse lets
go your hand, and you begin to ex-
ercise the muscles of your legs.
You can never use your eyes so
long as you depend upon critic y
concludes Carnegie's art director. II
have my own opinions, which are
neither here nor there, about that
thing. But If the. public will come
into the show and fight with each
other over pictures-tell each other
they are bughouse If they like this
picture and not that--get real sore at
each other over pictures, then the
exercising of art muscles has begun
The public may rest assured that
WC will not let them In for any
crazy Innovations But Dorain Ma
eisse and PicaSse have been accepted
as important artists in another land
than ours, and 1t is not for Carnegie
to pass any judgment on them.
Let the public get the judging
habit. To judge, they must see the
stuff. They cannot lift Themselves
by their own bootstraps, or get art
education from their own insides.
You must give them something to
exercise on; and that is what this
show Is, every year."