DOI Heft:
No. 293 (August 1917)
DOI Artikel:Salaman, Malcolm C.: The Great War: Britain's efforts and ideals depicted by British artists
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21263#0133
Studio- Talk
the real thing. So too, Mr. C. R. W. Nevinson's
experience has given the sense of actuality
to his pictorial traffic with air-craft. He makes
us feel curious effects of pattern amid the whirring
machinery in the factory, and shows us what
the earth looks like from the air. Mr. Charles
Pears, with a keen eye for every detail of a
ship, depicts the diverse activities and the perils
of our marine transport service. No series of
drawings is more successful than that in which
Mr. Claude Shepperson, with sensitive and
suggestive art, shows us how the wounded are
tended, from the moment the sufferer is carried
to the advanced dressing-station in an old
dug-out, through the various stages of his
progress to convalescence in a charming Tudor
mansion and gracious sunny park. Then we
have Mr. Rothenstein picturing pleasantly the
multifarious work on the land ; while no record
of Britain's effort would be complete without
a graphic tribute to the wonderful activities
of women, in the munition factories, on the
railways, in the towns, and on the land ; and
this is safe in the artistic hands of Mr. A. S.
Hartrick. Malcolm C. Salaman.
STUDIO-TALK.
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
CDON.—The last annual report of the
Artists' General Benevolent Institu-
tion contains melancholy evidence of
the distress which the war has wrought
in the profession of art, and it is only too probable
that the demands on the funds of this admirable
institution will continue to increase for a long
time to come, for even should the war come to
an end in the near future, the economic condi-
tions arising out of it are pretty certain to affect
prejudicially those who depend upon the practice
of art for a livelihood. It is true that in some
quarters a more optimistic view is entertained,
and the fact that the position of affairs now,
after three years of a war of unprecedented
magnitude, is better than was expected lends
support to this view, but whatever prosperity
has been experienced has for the most part
fallen to the lot of those who were already
fortunate and has hardly touched the rank and
file of the profession, who even at the best of
times do not find it easy to make ends meet.
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the real thing. So too, Mr. C. R. W. Nevinson's
experience has given the sense of actuality
to his pictorial traffic with air-craft. He makes
us feel curious effects of pattern amid the whirring
machinery in the factory, and shows us what
the earth looks like from the air. Mr. Charles
Pears, with a keen eye for every detail of a
ship, depicts the diverse activities and the perils
of our marine transport service. No series of
drawings is more successful than that in which
Mr. Claude Shepperson, with sensitive and
suggestive art, shows us how the wounded are
tended, from the moment the sufferer is carried
to the advanced dressing-station in an old
dug-out, through the various stages of his
progress to convalescence in a charming Tudor
mansion and gracious sunny park. Then we
have Mr. Rothenstein picturing pleasantly the
multifarious work on the land ; while no record
of Britain's effort would be complete without
a graphic tribute to the wonderful activities
of women, in the munition factories, on the
railways, in the towns, and on the land ; and
this is safe in the artistic hands of Mr. A. S.
Hartrick. Malcolm C. Salaman.
STUDIO-TALK.
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
CDON.—The last annual report of the
Artists' General Benevolent Institu-
tion contains melancholy evidence of
the distress which the war has wrought
in the profession of art, and it is only too probable
that the demands on the funds of this admirable
institution will continue to increase for a long
time to come, for even should the war come to
an end in the near future, the economic condi-
tions arising out of it are pretty certain to affect
prejudicially those who depend upon the practice
of art for a livelihood. It is true that in some
quarters a more optimistic view is entertained,
and the fact that the position of affairs now,
after three years of a war of unprecedented
magnitude, is better than was expected lends
support to this view, but whatever prosperity
has been experienced has for the most part
fallen to the lot of those who were already
fortunate and has hardly touched the rank and
file of the profession, who even at the best of
times do not find it easy to make ends meet.
OIL PAINTING BY ROBERT W. ALLAN, R.W.S.
[International Society)
117