International studio (19.1903)

relation to one another, constitute the structure,
the anatomy, the main motive or subject, caii it
by what significant term you like, of Mr. Brang-
wyn's pictures. There are ways of seeing nature,
and of representing her other than this, and
they are ways, iet it be remembered, equaiiy legiti-
mate in art; but this is Mr. Brangwyn's way,
and it is extraordinariiy impressive as weil as
uncommon. No doubt our well-known friend the
" Man in the Street" does not see nature after
this sort, and when she is so transiated
for him he does not appreciate the
translation. Though it is weli for art to
captivate the man in the street (and when
she puts on airs and ignores him, it
, is, if she oniy knew it, bad for herseif),
stiii the fancy and judgment of this
somewhat iimited individual are ob-
viousiy not to be taken as a standard
of frne art: and in our own day this is
especiaiiy the case, for many reasons.
Mr. Brangwyn's landscapes, therefore,
are perhaps hardiy iikely to be so
wideiy approved of as his figure pieces
with their human appeai, or his stiii-
life studies with their famiiiar objects
so powerfuily and briiiiantly por-
trayed. But this from the artistic
side is of course nothing to their dis-
advantage; and for those who appre-
ciate design, those to whom an im-
pression of nature caught in one of her
iarger and more forcibie aspects, and
interpreted with surprising breadth of "TURNips" FROM THE sTUDY BY FRANK BRANGWYN
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A YOUNG SCULPTOR: MR. REGI-
/\ NALD F. WELLS AND HIS
/—\ RUSTIC ART.
MR. WELLS has made a good beginning. A few
months ago he was merely a clever student in the
schools, modelling at South Kensington under an ex-
cellent teacher, Professor Lanteri; to-dayhe is solving
in his own manner some hard problems of profes-
sional work, and is already known to many good

FROM THE STUDY BY FRANK BRANGWYN

sinuous form and rich tone,
gives to landscape-painting
its higher significance, Mr.
Brangwyn's works of this
kind wiil certainly not
appear amongst his less
admirabie performances.
They, as much as his
hgure pieces, are character-
ised by his large outiook
on things. Mr. Brangwyn's
method of design and gift
of colour wouid frnd in
mosaic work a singulariy
felicitous held for their
expression, and had space
permitted I should have
liked to dwell briefly on
this point.