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Show GEOMETRIC ART' IS VERY LATEST Paris Exhibition Notable Also for Frankness in Nude Subjects PARIS, Oct. 31. (By the Associated it. s.h.) "Ocomctlc art," a new movement move-ment In painting which seeks to express ex-press life and soul in geometrical ' lines Instead of strokes of the oOtt-eiitlonal oOtt-eiitlonal nchooI of palntliiK. strikes ;i startling note In the fifteenth nitumn salon, which holds It "Varnishing "Var-nishing day" tomorrow. ARTISTS EN 1 HIT8IASTIC-Artists HIT8IASTIC-Artists of ten nationalities, Including Includ-ing American, nave hung In the ax-hlbltlon ax-hlbltlon more than BO "line pictures" which make the followers of cubism seem hopelessly conventional. The contributors to the new idea are enthusiastic en-thusiastic over Its possibilities believing believ-ing their movement will eventually 'contribute a new school of nrt Qeometrlam treats of convention il I subjects, such as nudes, landscapes and Interiors, but employs carefully worked out lines according to the rules of geometry. The pictures are said to have a keen appeal for mathematicians. ma-thematicians. Francis Plcabida the Spanish artist, who invented "Dadalsm," Ib the Leader of the new method of expres-blon. expres-blon. CRITICS SURPRISED There are between 50 and 00 Americans Amer-icans among the '100 artists exhibiting. With but few exceptions the Aiher I leans do much to contribute tu th-saner, th-saner, moro beautiful part uf th--salon, the dominant impression of -which is not beauty but frankness. The nudes, which this year far outnumber out-number of all other kinds of pictures 11 re In sum' cases startling and surprl.-is surprl.-is expressed that the Jury of the Balon. even in the face ol Its traditional tradi-tional liberality, approved some ..1 them. |