Lanterna Rally

Author: Hispanic Society Of America

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781230025322

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 edition. Excerpt: ...such moments I am unconscious of materials, of style, of rules, of everything that intervenes between my perception and the object or idea perceived. "No, mes amis, impressionism is not charlatanry, nor a formula, nor a school. I should say rather it is the bold resolve to throw all those things overboard." By an extraordinary coincidence, which may become historic, Sargent's wondrous water-colors, no less than eighty-six of them, have been shown at Knoedler's, simultaneously with the Sorolla exhibition--and they absolutely confirm the Spaniard's contention. Only after contemplating and comparing these two epoch-making modern masters, if you should happen to look in upon a bunch of Barbizons at Schaus's, or even upon the French impressionists at DurandRuel's, you will be astonished to find how black, how positively medieval, the latter appear for the moment to your sun-dazzled eyes. Henry Tyrrell. The American Art News, February 13, 1909.) AN ARTISTIC REVELATION To this dull art season has suddenly come a sensation in the exhibition opened this week at the Hispanic Museum of the works of the modern Spanish master, Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida. While some few American art lovers and students of contemporary art movements in Europe have known of the amazing power, color quality, and dramatic strength of Sorolla's canvases, few even of these have seen more than some scattered examples of his work, while the American art public was not prepared for what is a virtual revelation--in this display. There is every evidence that the New York public, never indifferent to really great music, art, or literature, will respond enthusiastically to the Hispanic Society's splendid enterprise in presenting to it the work of so great a modern...