The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-15


by Unions instruction three
admission obtained through the Trade Union The
wishes upon of nstruc
tion colleges undertake to complete three
day factory the usual eight hours and
has to attend the college from o'clock until in the evening"
thus completing an eleven-hour day.
At the end of three years he non-competve
examination order to receive his diploma This diploma en-
titles him join the profession for which his studies have pre-
pared him, or to enter university
These colleges probably creating the embryo Of post
for the most part Of the old school and their influence acts as
healthy restraint the Students all of whom factory work
evident in these schools that an unconscious struggle
Deng carried on between MASTER ana pupil Inc pup
reject form of aesthetic art or coong as typical
of the hated bourgeois refinement
Many institutions just completed their first
three years and the made by the students is
remarkable The courses all branches OF art music
and stage craft AS is natural in SO young movement portrait
painting sculpture paronzed than other branches
very exceptionally fine painters have already
peared and Delegation many examples of the industrial
the theatres and workers clubs of Moscow and
Kharkov
Portrait painting, and more especially sculpture have TAX
extremely rugged and almost violent form Expressions
features depicted in an exaggerated FORM Statuar is
muscle and all physical attributes brought
tances striking at close proximity nartistc
gallery studio purposes is almost grotesque.
Decorative art has, part cubist FORM
mostly in red black and yellow all coors being OF very vivid
crude hue Factory chmneys machinery and glowing fires
and smoke play large part in all forms OF the workers decora
It was interesting however to note that contrary
the handcrafts such miniature
painting Russian lacquer art which dying out before
Revolution Russian enamel needlework embroidery and
spite of many difficulties much is being done by the
the old artistic spirit of Russia alive through
thought activity and to counteract the
tendency during the revolutionary period to reject
thing that is older than the Revolution
Literature and Music
In the domain of music, these schools
perhaps less Literature apart from poetry
cerned mainly with economics There striking tendency
among composers seek expression in triumphant
and the decadent forms of syncopaed noise
jazz music Efforts however being made by
colleges combat this tendency initiate the West and
stimulate higher form of art The unaccompaned masseo
chors sometimes many 500 workers. give striking
results The international" other triumphant
revolutionary march has, of to receive places of honor
on the program but the is however, invariably
devoted to the old Russian peasant songs
which irresistible The formation and training of these
enormous mass chos all over country special
Soviet Russia which in itself visit
Opera and Theatre
The Russian stage drama, and ballet) is SO well
Russian art that will be sufficient to
weathered the of the Revolution and remains
intact The old and baets still played to crowded
There nothing like it elsewhere the itself
unspoed but the setting has changed The gay uniforms
ruling the wonderful Partisan frocks and gterng
jewels their womenfok have disappeared from the audo
The setting more sombre The new audience is
the performance and not their friends They
highly critical and usually less demonstratve than the old
Russian audience
In this connection may be repeat
sation Tsarst days. She asked
liked playing the audiences who held
pensve Of flowers who could purchase jewels and
give promise of champagne suppers.
She replied ut is of entirely different but think
that call before the curtain until dance
again think dance better now although am older GER
tan love my art more G on eSn oou res tive
900 miles to show the people Interpretation of
ballet am free to leave Russia but yet am glad to stay
Of the old favorites have disappeared abroad
but talent Is not lacking