Studio: international art (89.1925)

D. FORRESTER WILSON, A.R.S.A.

will find in plenty, but they are of little
assistance when the artist comes to battle
with his own conceptions, be they conceived
as easel pictures or large mural decorations.
Perhaps Mr. Wilson's most important
undertaking in that branch of art is his
lunette panel Time and History, painted
for the Glasgow Corporation's banqueting
hall in the City Chambers. In it on a gold
background the figures employed embody
in the design the suggestion of History
holding the long record of Glasgow's
progress, while Glasgow is centrally repre-
sented unfolding her plans for the future
and encouraging her sons of Industry to
add to her fame and further development.

One of Mr. Wilson's admirable qualities
and one which is not often found in art
masters, is his open-mindedness and
attitude towards all the new and varied
schools of painting and his admitted
desire to preserve a catholic mind with
regard to them, recognising that only
what is genuine and sincere will survive;

" GIRL AT PIANO." BY D.
FORRESTER WILSON, A.R.S.A.

no matter what may be the subject or the
style. For after all, the Heavens will still
continue to declare the beauty of their
Creator and the firmament show His
handiwork, but, alas, oft-times the specta-
cles of the humanity who dwell under it
declare and show little of either, and it is
for the artist amidst them to create with
unsullied and insignificant details his
vision of the lasting things which have
touched him ; nor need his creations be as
others have done them, nor as others would
have him do them, but as he sees and feels.
There are schools and art masters to teach
the use and aids of the necessary mediums
and tools and explain results which in-
variably obey certain laws, and cheerfully
appreciate the assistance of science and
its additional achievements in colour.
But also one must ever remember that
" the faculty of artistic seeing is inde-
pendent of education " and that its effect
is more inclined to dim the instinctive
and primitive feelings upon which the
loftier phases of art greatly depend, and
I think Mr. Wilson will agree with me that
one of the most difficult things that the
artist has to contend with is to keep the
freshness of the child in his heart and mind
despite all the knowledge he has gathered
throughout the years. Yet it is only from
those who have and those who can, that
great things have and will be accomplished ;
and I have no doubt that were many of the
most revered of the old masters to awaken
to-day and review some of the modern
achievements which have been attained
in colour as well as by it the rendering of
light, the experimental and enthusiastic
Leonardo da Vinci would be amongst the
first to lead the applause, 000

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