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Studio: international art — 71.1917

DOI Heft:
No. 294 (September 1917)
DOI Artikel:
Marriott, Charles: The work of Arnesby Brown, R. A.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: 
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21263#0145

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The Recent Work of Arnesby Brown, R.A.

Brown's work is enough to show that its popu-
larity is not gained at the expense of painting,
but rather the reverse. The truth is that he
has the good fortune, less common in art than
might be supposed, to be doubly interested in
what he paints ; as a painter and as a human
being. This identity of interests not only gives
him an enormous advantage, since he can
indulge the one without prejudice to the other
and still be sure of pleasing his public, but it
makes him an invaluable agent in spreading
and raising the popular appreciation of painting.
There have been landscape painters whose very
popularity has hindered this appreciation be-
cause they seemed to make the business of art
to consist in the literal imitation or sentimental
falsification of nature. On the other hand
there are good landscape painters who, because
their interest in nature is mainly technical,
encourage the belief that art is a trade secret.
But Mr. Brown's grasp of the subject is so

" midsummer " 0il painting by arnesby brown, r.a.

LXXI. No. 294.—September 1917 120,

THE RECENT WORK OF ARNESBY
BROWN, R.A. BY CHARLEJS
MARRIOTT

IF popularity be the test of art, and assuredly
it is one test, the landscapes of Mr.
Arnesby Brown, R.A., will rank high in
the art history of the present generation.
Outside portraiture and anecdote, which have
an obvious " pull " unconnected with art, it
would be difficult to point to a living painter
whose work appeals to a wider public. Nor is
the popularity of Mr. Brown's landscapes hard
to explain. It is due, first of all, to their
broadly bucolic interest. Without sentimen-
tality on the one hand, or special reference to
sport on the other, they combine two of the
most fundamental interests of the great majority
of English people : love of the country and love
of animals.

A very slight critical examination of Mr.
 
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