DOI Heft:
No. 311 (February 1919)
DOI Artikel:Salaman, Malcolm C.: The woodcuts and colour-prints of Captain Robert Gibbings
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21357#0019
THE STUDIO
THE WOODCUTS AND COLOUR- that the more adequate means provided by
PRINTS OF CAPTAIN ROBERT improved economic conditions, together with
GIBBINGS BY MALCOLM C growinS appreciation of tasteful environment,
cat ' induce a desire for more artistic craft-work
and pictorial art of genuine quality at moderate
WITH the pleasanter and happier cost. As the need for small houses is enormous,
conditions of living which must so is the demand for small and inexpensive
result from the social and in- works of art for the walls likely in time to become
dustrial reconstruction, promised proportionately great. And here is the oppor-
with the hard-won Peace, art will surely have a tunity for the original graphic artist. The
wider and more pervasively intimate part to widening appeal and practice of the arts of
play in the homes of the people. Even the etching, engraving on wood and metal, and
most optimistic economic dreams of Socialism, lithography, which have been so remarkable in
Anarchism, Syndicalism, and the rest, do not recent years, should now find in the promise of
fail to take count of the artist as a necessary brighter life for the people the impetus for
producer for the community, and to provide for further extension. The portfolios of the col-
him accordingly. But it is with the coming lectors need no longer limit the ambition of the
inevitable changes in material environment, etcher and engraver. Among those countless
and the accompanying more refined ideals of new homes of happy workers he may hope to see
home amenities, that the artist will find his men and women, pretending to no connoisseur-
extended opportunities. While the legislators ship, but moved by new impulses to love the
are to make it possible for all the workers to products of sincere and charming art as part of
live not only decently but pleasantly, it will their expression of joy in life. But for one of
rest with the artists to make the ideals of bright these who can enjoy beauty of design in black
and pleasant living comprise an intimate and white, he will find twenty craving for the
surrounding of decorative charm. With what- decorative allure of colour. The good painting
ever thoroughness the housing problems may will, however, be probably beyond the means of
be solved by the State, however satisfyingly the average small householder ; and this is where
the architects may plan and design for comfort the decorative value of the artistic colour-print
and harmony of aspect, it may still be assumed may urge its popular appeal. The walls of a
"dublin under snow"
LXXVI. No. 311.—February 1919
from a wood-block print by robert gibbings
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THE WOODCUTS AND COLOUR- that the more adequate means provided by
PRINTS OF CAPTAIN ROBERT improved economic conditions, together with
GIBBINGS BY MALCOLM C growinS appreciation of tasteful environment,
cat ' induce a desire for more artistic craft-work
and pictorial art of genuine quality at moderate
WITH the pleasanter and happier cost. As the need for small houses is enormous,
conditions of living which must so is the demand for small and inexpensive
result from the social and in- works of art for the walls likely in time to become
dustrial reconstruction, promised proportionately great. And here is the oppor-
with the hard-won Peace, art will surely have a tunity for the original graphic artist. The
wider and more pervasively intimate part to widening appeal and practice of the arts of
play in the homes of the people. Even the etching, engraving on wood and metal, and
most optimistic economic dreams of Socialism, lithography, which have been so remarkable in
Anarchism, Syndicalism, and the rest, do not recent years, should now find in the promise of
fail to take count of the artist as a necessary brighter life for the people the impetus for
producer for the community, and to provide for further extension. The portfolios of the col-
him accordingly. But it is with the coming lectors need no longer limit the ambition of the
inevitable changes in material environment, etcher and engraver. Among those countless
and the accompanying more refined ideals of new homes of happy workers he may hope to see
home amenities, that the artist will find his men and women, pretending to no connoisseur-
extended opportunities. While the legislators ship, but moved by new impulses to love the
are to make it possible for all the workers to products of sincere and charming art as part of
live not only decently but pleasantly, it will their expression of joy in life. But for one of
rest with the artists to make the ideals of bright these who can enjoy beauty of design in black
and pleasant living comprise an intimate and white, he will find twenty craving for the
surrounding of decorative charm. With what- decorative allure of colour. The good painting
ever thoroughness the housing problems may will, however, be probably beyond the means of
be solved by the State, however satisfyingly the average small householder ; and this is where
the architects may plan and design for comfort the decorative value of the artistic colour-print
and harmony of aspect, it may still be assumed may urge its popular appeal. The walls of a
"dublin under snow"
LXXVI. No. 311.—February 1919
from a wood-block print by robert gibbings
3