DOI Heft:
No. 117 (November, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28250#0076
Studio-Talk
Asiatic Collection of Lord Curzon of Kedleston,
made by him in the course of his travels in the
East during the last twenty years, and notably
during the seven years from 1898 to 1905,
when he was Viceroy and Governor-General of
India. This collection illustrates chiefly the art
of India, Burma, Nepal and Tibet, but examples
are also included of the art productions of
Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, Siam and China. It
thus embraces in a single survey the majority of
the countries on the mainland of Asia and presents
a comprehensive picture of some at least of the
principal artistic productions of the East, as well as
many interesting personal mementoes of Lord
Curzon’s term of office in India.
Scarcely any modern designer has contributed
with greater distinction to the arts and crafts move-
ment than Mr. Allan Vigers. His wall-papers,
with their beautifully conventionalised designs in
country loses one of its
most gifted exponents.
Mr. Charles, who was a
Manchester man, made his
debut on the walls of the
Royal Academy thirty-one
years ago, his contribution
on that occasion being a
figure subject, An Italian
Youth in Armour. Since
that time at least fifty works
by him have been seen at
Burlington House, and,
curiously enough, it was
from Italy that he gathered
the theme of his contribu-
tion to the exhibition this
year, a painting called The
Home of the Contadina, as
also of that exhibited still
more recently at the New
English Art Club, an illus-
tration of which was given
in our August number.
Mr. Charles also exhibited
frequently at the New
Gallery, and was an as-
sociate of the Societe
Nationale des Beaux Arts,
Paris.
A certain naivete in the choice of subject is dis-
played and sometimes a preference for the early
Victorian, such as is very characteristic of some
phases of current art. Mr Armfield shows appre-
ciation of the clear definition of detail that marked
pre-Raphaelitism, and also for its arbitrary divisions
of colour. His composition is of an elaborately
pictorial order, which gives a distinctive character
to his work, and whilst, as his studies show, he is
reverent to nature, he does not mind sometimes
displaying a deliberately affected artificiality both
in motif and design. His tempera work is of
especial interest at this moment when this medium
is receiving so much attention from artists. He
has attacked its difficulties with a success which
leads us to hope in the future for much interesting
work of the kind from his hand.
By the death of Mr. James Charles, which took
place a little while back, landscape art in this
At Bethnal Green Mu-
seum there is now on view
a large portion of the
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' L'INDIFFERENTE '
BY MAXWELL ARM FIELD
Asiatic Collection of Lord Curzon of Kedleston,
made by him in the course of his travels in the
East during the last twenty years, and notably
during the seven years from 1898 to 1905,
when he was Viceroy and Governor-General of
India. This collection illustrates chiefly the art
of India, Burma, Nepal and Tibet, but examples
are also included of the art productions of
Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, Siam and China. It
thus embraces in a single survey the majority of
the countries on the mainland of Asia and presents
a comprehensive picture of some at least of the
principal artistic productions of the East, as well as
many interesting personal mementoes of Lord
Curzon’s term of office in India.
Scarcely any modern designer has contributed
with greater distinction to the arts and crafts move-
ment than Mr. Allan Vigers. His wall-papers,
with their beautifully conventionalised designs in
country loses one of its
most gifted exponents.
Mr. Charles, who was a
Manchester man, made his
debut on the walls of the
Royal Academy thirty-one
years ago, his contribution
on that occasion being a
figure subject, An Italian
Youth in Armour. Since
that time at least fifty works
by him have been seen at
Burlington House, and,
curiously enough, it was
from Italy that he gathered
the theme of his contribu-
tion to the exhibition this
year, a painting called The
Home of the Contadina, as
also of that exhibited still
more recently at the New
English Art Club, an illus-
tration of which was given
in our August number.
Mr. Charles also exhibited
frequently at the New
Gallery, and was an as-
sociate of the Societe
Nationale des Beaux Arts,
Paris.
A certain naivete in the choice of subject is dis-
played and sometimes a preference for the early
Victorian, such as is very characteristic of some
phases of current art. Mr Armfield shows appre-
ciation of the clear definition of detail that marked
pre-Raphaelitism, and also for its arbitrary divisions
of colour. His composition is of an elaborately
pictorial order, which gives a distinctive character
to his work, and whilst, as his studies show, he is
reverent to nature, he does not mind sometimes
displaying a deliberately affected artificiality both
in motif and design. His tempera work is of
especial interest at this moment when this medium
is receiving so much attention from artists. He
has attacked its difficulties with a success which
leads us to hope in the future for much interesting
work of the kind from his hand.
By the death of Mr. James Charles, which took
place a little while back, landscape art in this
At Bethnal Green Mu-
seum there is now on view
a large portion of the
62
' L'INDIFFERENTE '
BY MAXWELL ARM FIELD