Abstract

Fine Arts

The article presents information on the second annual exhibition of the "Society of American Artists," that was opened on Monday week, and bids fair to attract even more attention than the first. While professedly dedicated to a demonstration of the unconventional, it is seen to be a toilsome effort on most of the painters' part to copy the style of some foreign teacher or other, thus betraying the intense ideal of conventionality. The pupils from France and the pupils from Germany are again drawn face to face in battle array. The Germanic painters undoubtedly carry the day with the more impressionable part of the public. In opposition to them the work of the Parisians, based on structural analysis, and rejecting all color that is merely a superficial adornment and is not based on the conditions of the scene, inspire more confidence and beget a better hope for the future.