DOI Heft:
No. 62 (May, 1898)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: Henry Moore's animal studies
DOI Artikel:MacColl, D. S.: The paintings on silk of Charles Conder
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18391#0256
Charles Courier's Paintings on Silk
Yet the artist who could do them could at the unfettered we might, without losing his greatest
same time hold his own with the best of his con- paintings of the sea, have had to rejoice over many
temporaries in painting subjects on land and at other canvases, not less masterly, in those various
sea; and could turn from one to the other of the branches of art practice which he was so excep-
forms of expression that were within his reach tionally qualified to follow,
without showing by any lapse of skill that he was
attempting anything in the smallest degree beyond H£ PAINTINGS ON SILK OF
his powers. That such versatility should have I CHARLES CONDER.
been narrowed down into specialism is little to the
credit of the public ; and the result has certainly Imagine a landscape spacious and yet
been to diminish the artistic advantage which the A secret from loud winds like Avalon, like
British school gained from the career of Henry Avalon thick set with flowering and fruit-bearing
Moore. As a specialist he became a masterly trees. First picture its vault of sky barred by in-
illustrator of one motive; but had he been left numerable shining clouds upon a ground of April
blue, changing over into
vintage purple. The lower
wreaths of cloud are inter-
woven with festoons of
apple-blossom, and these
are crossed by dropping
jHMp^\g^., trails of great roses, and
■MmJwF^ starred by single petals of
*'3^1 %^ them blown about. This
garden is bounded north-
^b^ thr^
towers of poplar-trees : at
the lower a ruined castle
stands upon a rock : be
tween is embowered the
settlement, named from its
birds Chantemesle. Hard
by the Abbaye de Theleme
was re-founded, and for a
brief period flourished, and
under the willows and
among the islands the
charles conder from a photograph religious of that Order
232
Yet the artist who could do them could at the unfettered we might, without losing his greatest
same time hold his own with the best of his con- paintings of the sea, have had to rejoice over many
temporaries in painting subjects on land and at other canvases, not less masterly, in those various
sea; and could turn from one to the other of the branches of art practice which he was so excep-
forms of expression that were within his reach tionally qualified to follow,
without showing by any lapse of skill that he was
attempting anything in the smallest degree beyond H£ PAINTINGS ON SILK OF
his powers. That such versatility should have I CHARLES CONDER.
been narrowed down into specialism is little to the
credit of the public ; and the result has certainly Imagine a landscape spacious and yet
been to diminish the artistic advantage which the A secret from loud winds like Avalon, like
British school gained from the career of Henry Avalon thick set with flowering and fruit-bearing
Moore. As a specialist he became a masterly trees. First picture its vault of sky barred by in-
illustrator of one motive; but had he been left numerable shining clouds upon a ground of April
blue, changing over into
vintage purple. The lower
wreaths of cloud are inter-
woven with festoons of
apple-blossom, and these
are crossed by dropping
jHMp^\g^., trails of great roses, and
■MmJwF^ starred by single petals of
*'3^1 %^ them blown about. This
garden is bounded north-
^b^ thr^
towers of poplar-trees : at
the lower a ruined castle
stands upon a rock : be
tween is embowered the
settlement, named from its
birds Chantemesle. Hard
by the Abbaye de Theleme
was re-founded, and for a
brief period flourished, and
under the willows and
among the islands the
charles conder from a photograph religious of that Order
232