DOI Heft:
Nr. 153 (November 1909)
DOI Artikel:Mr. Brangwyn's tempera frieze at the new London offices of the grand trunk railway
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19868#0087
Mr. Brangwyris Tempera Frieze
these great traditions, has founded himself upon as well as using the finest advertisement that they
bed-rock of their technique, and has learnt his can get for the noising abroad of their commercial
Seminar from them ; and then, boldly rejecting activities,
all the old formulas and flinging aside the Italian liut there is a higher significance than this in
spectacles, has developed the medium to his own the frieze—its artistic significance. It would be
ei"ids, using it decisively and with forthright inten- difficult to imagine the motive of the triumph of
tion of getting from its colours a wider and science and modern civilization over the rude
duller gamut and a larger and more national forces of nature and of barbarism being uttered
utterance. to a finer orchestration of the resonances that lie
It is, as just remarked, typical of the man, a part in colour than we have displayed before us in this
ol his remarkable development and personal vision, large work by Mr. Brangwyn. The dramatic sense
that, firmly taking his stand upon all that was is kept well within the boundaries of the art of
best in the old methods, he has mastered them ; painting ; but the artist is never afraid of those
hut, not content to ape them,
having got from the gamut _
01 their potentialities their b/ .
fi"est qualities, he has cast
aside their hampering limita-
ll°ns, and, sternly refusing to
he enslaved by their laws,
°as essayed to evolve a new
style from them, and has
developed their possibilities.
Not only does his use of tem-
pera mark a new phase in the
Craftsmanship of the material,
11 opens up a new vista of its
la>"ge possibilities. It is all
the more interesting in that
he should thus have em-
Ployed it in the first large
Work he has essayed in apply-
lng his decorative genius to
the offices of commerce. It
ls true that Mr. Brangwyn
heretofore has been known in
London for his decorations
at the Skinners' Hall and at
Lloyd's Registry in the City;
Out both these places bear
more the character of private
houses than commercial
offices.
1 he success here won will
convince the London com-
niercial houses that by em-
Ploying high artistry in the
wilding and decorating of
their offices, not only will
lhey be bri nging dignity and
beauty into that heretofore
home of hideousness, the city
office, but will be laying up
rich treasure for themselves sketch for frieze BY fr\nk brangwyn, a.r.a.
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these great traditions, has founded himself upon as well as using the finest advertisement that they
bed-rock of their technique, and has learnt his can get for the noising abroad of their commercial
Seminar from them ; and then, boldly rejecting activities,
all the old formulas and flinging aside the Italian liut there is a higher significance than this in
spectacles, has developed the medium to his own the frieze—its artistic significance. It would be
ei"ids, using it decisively and with forthright inten- difficult to imagine the motive of the triumph of
tion of getting from its colours a wider and science and modern civilization over the rude
duller gamut and a larger and more national forces of nature and of barbarism being uttered
utterance. to a finer orchestration of the resonances that lie
It is, as just remarked, typical of the man, a part in colour than we have displayed before us in this
ol his remarkable development and personal vision, large work by Mr. Brangwyn. The dramatic sense
that, firmly taking his stand upon all that was is kept well within the boundaries of the art of
best in the old methods, he has mastered them ; painting ; but the artist is never afraid of those
hut, not content to ape them,
having got from the gamut _
01 their potentialities their b/ .
fi"est qualities, he has cast
aside their hampering limita-
ll°ns, and, sternly refusing to
he enslaved by their laws,
°as essayed to evolve a new
style from them, and has
developed their possibilities.
Not only does his use of tem-
pera mark a new phase in the
Craftsmanship of the material,
11 opens up a new vista of its
la>"ge possibilities. It is all
the more interesting in that
he should thus have em-
Ployed it in the first large
Work he has essayed in apply-
lng his decorative genius to
the offices of commerce. It
ls true that Mr. Brangwyn
heretofore has been known in
London for his decorations
at the Skinners' Hall and at
Lloyd's Registry in the City;
Out both these places bear
more the character of private
houses than commercial
offices.
1 he success here won will
convince the London com-
niercial houses that by em-
Ploying high artistry in the
wilding and decorating of
their offices, not only will
lhey be bri nging dignity and
beauty into that heretofore
home of hideousness, the city
office, but will be laying up
rich treasure for themselves sketch for frieze BY fr\nk brangwyn, a.r.a.
33