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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 518 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BALKAN STATES Until quite See also:

recent times the Balkan States had no See also:part at all in the See also:history of See also:art. But at the See also:Paris See also:Exhibition of 19o0 it was noted with surprise that even in soutl;-eastern See also:Europe 518 there was a certain pulsation of new See also:life. And there were also signs that See also:painting in the Balkans, which hitherto had appeared only as a reflex of Paris and See also:Munich art, would ere See also:long assume a definite See also:national See also:character. At this Exhibition See also:Bulgaria seemed to be the most backward of all, its painters still representing the See also:manners and customs of their See also:country in the See also:style of the illustrated papers. See also:Market-places are seen, where See also:women with See also:golden chains, See also:half-nude boys and old See also:Jews are moving about; or cemeteries, with orthodox See also:clergy praying and women sobbing; military pageants, See also:wine harvests and See also:horse fairs, old men performing the national See also:dance, and topers jesting with See also:brown-eyed girls. Such are the subjects that Anton Mittoff, See also:Raymund See also:Ulrich and Jaroslav Vesin paint. More See also:original is Mvkuicka. In his most important See also:work he represented the See also:late princess of Bulgaria sitting on a See also:throne, See also:solemn and stately, in the background mosaics See also:rich in gild, tall slim lilies at her See also:side. In his other pictures he painted Biblical landscapes, battlefields wrapped in sulphurous See also:smoke, and old Rabbis—all with a certain uncouth barbaric See also:power. The Bulgarian painters have not as yet arrived at the aesthetic phase. One of the best among them, who paints delicate See also:pale See also:green landscapes, is Charalampi Ilieff; and See also:Nicholas Michailoff, at Munich, has executed pictures, representing See also:nymphs, that See also:arrest See also:attention by their delicate See also:tone and their beautiful colouring. Quite See also:modern was the effect of the small Croatian-See also:Slavonic See also:Gallery in the Exhibition.

Looking at the pictures there, the visitor might imagine himself on the See also:

banks of the See also:Seine rather than in the See also:East. The See also:French saying, "Faire See also:des See also:Whistler, faire des Dagnan, faire des Corriere," is eminently applicable to their work. Vlaho Bukovak, Nicola Masic, Csiks and Medovic all paint very modern pictures, and in excellent See also:taste, only it is surprising to find upon them Croatian and not Parisian signatures. Precisely the same See also:judgment must be passed with regard to See also:Rumania. Most of the painters live in Paris or Munich, have sought their See also:inspiration at the feet of the advanced masters there, and paint, as pupils of these masters, pictures just as See also:good in taste, just as See also:cosmopolitan and equally devoid of character. See also:Irene Deschly, a See also:pupil of See also:Carriere, illustrates the songs of See also:Francois See also:Coppee; See also:Verona Gargouromin is devoted to the pale symbolism of Dagnan-Bouveret. See also:Nicolas See also:Grant paints See also:bright landscapes, with See also:apple trees with their See also:pink blossoms, like Darnoye. Nicolas Gropeano appears as the See also:double of Aman-See also:Jean, with his See also:female heads and pictures from See also:fairy tales. See also:Olga Koruca studied under Puvis de Chavannes, and painted See also:Cleopatra quite in the tone of her See also:master. A landscape by A. Segall was the only work that appeared to be really Rumanian, representing thatched huts. See also:Servia is in striking contrast to Rumania.

No trace of modern See also:

influence has penetrated to her. There See also:historical painting, such as was in See also:vogue in See also:France and See also:Germany a See also:generation ago, is the See also:order of the See also:day. Risto Voucanovitch paints his scenes from Servian history in brown; See also:Paul Ivanovitch his in greyish plein-See also:air. But in spite of this pate painting, the latter's See also:works have no modern effect—as little as the sharply-See also:drawn small landscapes of his See also:brother Svatislav Ivanovitch. (R.

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