DOI Heft:
No. 285 (December 1916)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Artikel:Reviews and notices
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.24575#0164
Reviews and Notices
old royal burgh town of Kirkcudbright, wherein to REVIEWS AND NOTICES.
discover the joys and troubles of an artist's life.
_ The Relation of Sculpture to Architecture. By
He was not, however, unacquainted with the ways T. P. Bennett, A. R.I.B.A. (Cambridge: The
and methods of a painter's career; for odd hours University Press.) 15^. net.—The author notes
and spare days from city work had all been devoted the growing use of sculpture upon important
to mingling with art and artists, and not a few of buildings in various parts of the country. He
his canvases found themselves in good company points out that it is possible to have beautiful
in the various Scottish exhibitions. It is not modelling which may be utterly bad decoration,
uncommon to find the most energy expended by and condemns outrage of form which seeks to be
those who practise the painter's craft in their taken for originality. " If an artist has originality,"
leisure moments, and most indolence amongst he writes, " he need never fear that it will remain
those whose time is less limited. Idleness, unexpressed. . . . The greater his personality
however, is not one of Mr. Clarke's failings, and the more natural his expression, the greater
Never have I known an artist who works more will be this effect." After reviewing the historic
assiduously early and late—not that his output periods of architecture from the Egyptian to
is by any means prolific, but that each new canvas the English Renaissance, the author turns to
when it emerges from
his hands shows a
marked technical and
assured advance.
Having an idyllic
sense of colour, sun-
light and the pastoral
life surrounding farm
steadings and the
intimate wcodlands
perhaps captivate him
most, as it is in such
simple subjects that
one finds the greatest
individualism as well
as distinct personality
of the artist. In his
smaller spontaneous
figure pastorals especi-
ally there is a charm
that endures. Whether
he will ultimately be
counted with the rare
artists of the genre he
has chosen, it is too
early to say; still in
the springtime of life
many years, it may be
hoped, lie before him,
and what he has done
and is still doing shows
him to be no self-
satisfied wayfarer on
the uphill road he has
voluntarily chosen to
follow. E. A. 'I. "the goatherd-' (The Property of /. Kinnaird, Esq.) by w. h. clarke
J54
old royal burgh town of Kirkcudbright, wherein to REVIEWS AND NOTICES.
discover the joys and troubles of an artist's life.
_ The Relation of Sculpture to Architecture. By
He was not, however, unacquainted with the ways T. P. Bennett, A. R.I.B.A. (Cambridge: The
and methods of a painter's career; for odd hours University Press.) 15^. net.—The author notes
and spare days from city work had all been devoted the growing use of sculpture upon important
to mingling with art and artists, and not a few of buildings in various parts of the country. He
his canvases found themselves in good company points out that it is possible to have beautiful
in the various Scottish exhibitions. It is not modelling which may be utterly bad decoration,
uncommon to find the most energy expended by and condemns outrage of form which seeks to be
those who practise the painter's craft in their taken for originality. " If an artist has originality,"
leisure moments, and most indolence amongst he writes, " he need never fear that it will remain
those whose time is less limited. Idleness, unexpressed. . . . The greater his personality
however, is not one of Mr. Clarke's failings, and the more natural his expression, the greater
Never have I known an artist who works more will be this effect." After reviewing the historic
assiduously early and late—not that his output periods of architecture from the Egyptian to
is by any means prolific, but that each new canvas the English Renaissance, the author turns to
when it emerges from
his hands shows a
marked technical and
assured advance.
Having an idyllic
sense of colour, sun-
light and the pastoral
life surrounding farm
steadings and the
intimate wcodlands
perhaps captivate him
most, as it is in such
simple subjects that
one finds the greatest
individualism as well
as distinct personality
of the artist. In his
smaller spontaneous
figure pastorals especi-
ally there is a charm
that endures. Whether
he will ultimately be
counted with the rare
artists of the genre he
has chosen, it is too
early to say; still in
the springtime of life
many years, it may be
hoped, lie before him,
and what he has done
and is still doing shows
him to be no self-
satisfied wayfarer on
the uphill road he has
voluntarily chosen to
follow. E. A. 'I. "the goatherd-' (The Property of /. Kinnaird, Esq.) by w. h. clarke
J54