Abstract

Art

The Brooklyn Museum does not let people forget that art means something more than pretty picture making; it is not afraid to take the initiative; it is as willing to find a place for work upon which time has not passed its verdict as for work that all the world now acknowledges to be great. This autumn it introduces to the U.S., a Russian painter, Boris Anisfeld, who is identified with the movements that seem the rebellions of to-day. He has an unusually strong sense of color, so strong as to verge upon the barbaric, and this may be a part of his Slavic inheritance. There may be a streak of mysticism in his Golden Gods and his Buddhas. Even Anisfeld's devotion to the theatre comes of his sympathy with the art of his own time, though perhaps of all the artists who have been working for the stage, he has most successfully mastered its many problems.