Identifier: internationalstu75newy (find matches)
Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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artist likeMr. Thorndike subdues the surface to the per-vading lyricism of his interpretations, Marchandfrom the beginning presents it to us in the epicstyle of a primitive, or with the objective classic-ism of a Poussin. Remarkable and altogether personal is therendering of surface in the now famous Chapellede St. Michel, painted this winter, so much dis-cussed at Bernheims where it hangs side by sidewith Derain, Marquet, De Segonzac and otherinsurgents. We have here that transpositionwhich began in Les Jardins en terrasse by thesheen of the stone steps in the center, to a vigorousmodelling of earth and hills, opposed to the for-bidding sides of the chapel. Only through a veri-table passion for such values and a deep artistreason for them, a sure knowledge ol their pic-torial meaning, could he persuade us to admit hissense of the significance of this so unprontheme. I for one am persuaded ai with those Marchand enthusiasts like his friend, JULY 1922 three luent\ -three inceRriACionAL
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refugee du nord Thorndike, that here BY JEAN MARCHAND ^ . ,r n , t \, .■ d Marchand is most thor- (Goi/eclion oj Martin Kyerson) oughly Marchand, thathe has escaped from the decorative archaism ofhis earlier paintings, into a free strong expressionof the world he loves. He is now at that happystage of a mans reputation when his partisansquarrel with His enemies, when every workexhibited by him is the occasion of an uprising ofvivid for-and-against opinion among colleaguesand critics. An Alexandre Arsene, reluctantlyadmitting Maternite, fumes that Marchandlandscapes are imbecile. A Roger-Marx findsthat the austerity Marchand imprints on natureis one ol the prime virtues of his art and is nowiseafraid of his large nude surfaces, these silentquadrilaterals of modern buildings as tragic underAugust dust as in winter soot, and feels in thelandscapes by Jean Marchand of the Parisiansuburbs a poetry that no one before has everexpressed for us in painting. Marchand is not a colorist. He use

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