Evening star., 1925-07-26
EXHIBIT TO SHOW
|. NEW ART TRENDS
Saint Gaudens Arranges
Carnegie International
Showing for Autumn.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, July 25.-The trend
OF art in Europe in recent years, espe
c1alty IN Germany, was the object OF
an interesting study made by Homer
Saint-Gaudens, director of fine arts OF
Carnegie Institute, who returned to
the United States recently after select
ing paintings for the international
exhibition here beginning October IS
next. The exhibition will include
paintings from England, France
Spain, Germany, Austria and eight
other European nations. Later in the
Winter the foreign section will be
exhibited intact in New York, Phila-
delphia and st. Louis.
This will be the first Carnegie in
ternational since the beginning of the
World War in 1914 that will include
groups of paintings from Germany
and Austria" said the director. 1T
will also be the first Carnegie inter
national since the war that will have
on the jury of award a European
other than a French or English art
ist. That juryman will be Anglada
y Camarasa, the brilliant painter of
Spain" Other members of the jury
are Ernest Laurent, the French
artist, and Algernon Talmaege OF
England.
The 1925 exhibition will be more
comprehensive than heretofore, con-
tanning paintings from IL European
nations, each shown as a separate en-
tity. The largest group will be from
England, with France next.
II believe that the English show a
more genuine interest in art than any
other group in Europe" said Mr..
Saint.Gaudens. France, of course, has
stood through generations as uphold
ing the standard of European art, and
consequently, once more it will pro-
duce the most discussed section. 1t
is rather difficult to make out where
French art is heading. 1t seems to
me that many of the French artists
are attempting these days to turn to
a perfectly natural desire for decora-
ton. They seem to have ceased to
realize that the essence of art is to
stimulate our imaginative qualities.
Our French section will furnish mate
rial for many heated debates.
German art, especially that which
most typically represents the German
modern idea, may not be understood
wholly in the United States since the
painters considered important in Ger
many lay relatively little emphasis on
creating decorations to adorn space,
or to delight the eye.
Aim Is Explained.
Their aim is rather to express in
which they feel are vivid flashes of
imagination, the ideas and emotions
of the society around them. These
emotions are especially strange to the
American point of view, because of
the violence of German mental life
during the last 10 years.
German official. art, strange to re-
late, is not radical art. 1t is the only
country where that is 50. All one
needs to do to realize that this is
so is to visit the Kronprinzen Museum
in Berlin. In 1t is a modern gallery
which has been installed since the
war From a normal point of view
1t is a chamber of horror. l was told
and I believe that the present day
prevalent German art largely reflects
the German government. When the
kaiser and his followers were in
power, It was war paintings-huge
paintings of great battles that they
imposed on German art. Now, Of
course, the government is different,
vet the limitations it imposes are just
as forcefuI and narrow as in the old
days"
italian art has grown as rapidly in
Importance as has it's industrial life,
while Spain provides a modern art of
Importance in Europe, said Mr.. Saint
Gaudens.
The American section of the inter
national will consist of 13O paintings.