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II
ENGLISH POST-IMPRESSIONISTS
IT is said that Cezanne was in the habit of Nation
describing himself as a pupil of Camille Oct-
Pissarro. The belief is popular, and may be
well founded at ; any rate, it has emboldened
Mr. Rutter
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to overstock his Post-Impressionist
and Futurist Exhibition " with
unimportant works by this distinguished
Impressionist. Surely a couple of examples
would have sufficed to illustrate the latest,
and best, theory of aesthetics. For that is the
service performed on this occasion by the
works of Pissarro. They mark that difference
in purpose between three schools, an under-
standing of which will enable the intelligent
student to pick his way across the depths and
shallows of contemporary art.
The romantic artists of the early nineteenth
century used form and colour to describe
situations and comment on life. There are no
examples of their work in this exhibition ;
but, as we shall see, the Futurists are unconsciously
harking back
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to their theories.