File:Samuel Halpert - A Town in Portugal, 1915.jpg

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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and they give Greco. He found the simplicitycredit to the Impressionists for their knowledge of and austerity of the primitives singularly appeal-color. But their eclecticism ends here; by far the ing, while the sincerity of their approach to naturegreater portion of their art is their own and is the struck a responsive chord. During this period theexpression of definite ideas regarding structure artist was rapidly finding himself. He sent hisand volume—an expression which in its deter- pictures to the Salon dAutomne and, being re-mination to get at the heart of things is typical of presented there during the five requisite years,the spirit of the times in which we live. became a member in 1911. The years between 1907 and 1911 Halpert Like many of the other young artists whomspent in Italy and France. In Rome and Florence Cezanne inspired, he accepted the great French-he came into a deeper appreciation and under- mans premises only as the foundation on which one forty-six APRIL IQ22
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to build the structure of his own a town in Portugal (1915) rs j ter_ Both are strong, BY SAMUEL HALPEBT J art. He has looked for himself adequate, satisfying. And yet at the aspect of things and found his own mode if the two are placed side by side and studied, of expression. What he says is what he feels, and now one and then the other, for any length ol this is a supreme quality in art. time, it is the later picture that finally wins the Halpert paints a landscape as one who has greater share of attention. There is something grasped something about its form as an entirety, about those converging streets with their lines of It is not pieced together—a hill here, a group of automobiles that is a magnet to the eye. The houses there, a patch of sky overhead—but all heart of the picture is there. The surrounding these things are felt in so subtle a relation as to buildings are felt rather than seen, and by si in pi 1- be a unit. He looks into the heart of the country- lying their fo

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