DOI Heft:
No. 122 (April, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.28251#0165
Studio-Talk
“ RIVER FRIGIDO AT MASS A-CARRARA—WINTER MORNING SKETCH
depression when the wrong side comes in. Using
the word correctly, there is no one to-day caricatur-
ing in the House of Commons. Those drawings
we see in the papers are portraits—certainly exagger-
ated, sometimes to the verge of caricature, but
always hugging the features of photographs which
the artist and the public know in common. We
think it would please the country to have the
genius of, say, Mr. Sime or Mr. Richardson let
loose upon the Lobby, for the art of both possesses
the vitality which is indispensable.
In strange contrast to the foregoing exhibition,
Mr. F. F. Foottet was exhibiting at the same
galleries, in another room, paintings under the title
Romance and Symbolism. His art is abstract; even
when dealing with actual things it is dreamy, with
a cold but manifest beauty in colour. The study
for May^s Herald was perhaps the best thing in the
room, having in itself the quintessence of the quali-
ties which give to Mr. Foottet’s art its individuality.
In a room adjoining were many attractive water-
colours by Miss Beatrice Bland.
The collection of Mr. Robert Little’s paintings,
brought together in the galleries of the Fine Art
BY ROBERT LITTLE
Society, deserves more than ordinary attention,
because it proves in a definite way how consistently
he observes those rules of practice which he has
laid down for himself. He is guided evidently in
all he does by a desire to realise the deeper senti-
ment of Nature, rather than to present her common-
places, or to show her simply under her every-day
aspects. So he gives to the subjects he selects a
special degree of consideration, and brings them,
as far as possible, into agreement with what he
rightly conceives to be correct pictorial principles.
Yet his work is free from a set mannerism; indi-
viduality it certainly has, and definiteness of view,
but it does not repeat mechanically a few limited
ideas. On the contrary, its variety is one of its
best attributes, and one of the chief sources of
the artist’s success. A fine designer, a sensitive
colourist, a robust and expressive executant, he is
able by virtue of his admirable sense of decorative
fitness to use very dissimilar types of material to
absolute advantage, and to find in them all the
opportunities he desires.
The Royal Society of Miniature Painters’ twelfth
annual Exhibition at the Modern Gallery was this
year of wider and more varied interest. Mr. Lionel
151
“ RIVER FRIGIDO AT MASS A-CARRARA—WINTER MORNING SKETCH
depression when the wrong side comes in. Using
the word correctly, there is no one to-day caricatur-
ing in the House of Commons. Those drawings
we see in the papers are portraits—certainly exagger-
ated, sometimes to the verge of caricature, but
always hugging the features of photographs which
the artist and the public know in common. We
think it would please the country to have the
genius of, say, Mr. Sime or Mr. Richardson let
loose upon the Lobby, for the art of both possesses
the vitality which is indispensable.
In strange contrast to the foregoing exhibition,
Mr. F. F. Foottet was exhibiting at the same
galleries, in another room, paintings under the title
Romance and Symbolism. His art is abstract; even
when dealing with actual things it is dreamy, with
a cold but manifest beauty in colour. The study
for May^s Herald was perhaps the best thing in the
room, having in itself the quintessence of the quali-
ties which give to Mr. Foottet’s art its individuality.
In a room adjoining were many attractive water-
colours by Miss Beatrice Bland.
The collection of Mr. Robert Little’s paintings,
brought together in the galleries of the Fine Art
BY ROBERT LITTLE
Society, deserves more than ordinary attention,
because it proves in a definite way how consistently
he observes those rules of practice which he has
laid down for himself. He is guided evidently in
all he does by a desire to realise the deeper senti-
ment of Nature, rather than to present her common-
places, or to show her simply under her every-day
aspects. So he gives to the subjects he selects a
special degree of consideration, and brings them,
as far as possible, into agreement with what he
rightly conceives to be correct pictorial principles.
Yet his work is free from a set mannerism; indi-
viduality it certainly has, and definiteness of view,
but it does not repeat mechanically a few limited
ideas. On the contrary, its variety is one of its
best attributes, and one of the chief sources of
the artist’s success. A fine designer, a sensitive
colourist, a robust and expressive executant, he is
able by virtue of his admirable sense of decorative
fitness to use very dissimilar types of material to
absolute advantage, and to find in them all the
opportunities he desires.
The Royal Society of Miniature Painters’ twelfth
annual Exhibition at the Modern Gallery was this
year of wider and more varied interest. Mr. Lionel
151