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DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: The art of Mr. Albert Goodwin, R.W.S.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19866#0135
Albert Goodwin, R.IV.S.
work from beginning to end; it affects him in a monotonous harping upon a few notes; at its
his choice of motives, it affects him equally in his best, however, it will become a great guiding
manner of dealing with them. It makes him principle in an art that is commandingly persuasive
respond to suggestions which impress him rather and unfailingly convincing because it is strong,
by their possibilities of transcription than by their certain, aud, above all, original both in conception
fitness for exact representation, and it induces him and execution.
to colour all his transcriptions of nature with that Of all the painters who have worked consistently
particular sentiment to which he is instinctively under the domination of a sentiment the greatest
inclined. beyond doubt is Turner. No other man ever had
This sentiment may be simple or complex, it his power of exact vision, his capacity to represent
may be dramatic, decorative, delicately poetic or nature exactly as she is ; and yet no other man
vigorously romantic, it may be gentle or robust, it ever approached him in the ability to translate
may vary greatly with the variation in the artist's what he saw into something entirely personal,
moods, and it may change in character under the Whatever he touched he glorified by investing it
influence of new impressions. But in all its with a sentiment nobly dignified and exquisitely
phases, if it is the product of a temperament that refined, and by transmuting things obvious and
is strong and independent, it will be definitely commonplace into jewels of inestimable value. In
personal and always to be recognised as part of everything he painted he seized unhesitatingly upon
the character of the man who is making assertion the opportunities which the subject afforded for
of his artistic convictions. At its worst, this sen- the expression of his own aesthetic feeling, and he
timent may lapse into a convention, into the used its possibilities with infinite resource. Selec-
repetition of certain tricks of expression, and into tion in his case meant the choice of a motive
'BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE" (WATER-COLOUR)
(In the possession of Miss McGhee)
86
BY ALBERT GOODWIN, R.W.S.
work from beginning to end; it affects him in a monotonous harping upon a few notes; at its
his choice of motives, it affects him equally in his best, however, it will become a great guiding
manner of dealing with them. It makes him principle in an art that is commandingly persuasive
respond to suggestions which impress him rather and unfailingly convincing because it is strong,
by their possibilities of transcription than by their certain, aud, above all, original both in conception
fitness for exact representation, and it induces him and execution.
to colour all his transcriptions of nature with that Of all the painters who have worked consistently
particular sentiment to which he is instinctively under the domination of a sentiment the greatest
inclined. beyond doubt is Turner. No other man ever had
This sentiment may be simple or complex, it his power of exact vision, his capacity to represent
may be dramatic, decorative, delicately poetic or nature exactly as she is ; and yet no other man
vigorously romantic, it may be gentle or robust, it ever approached him in the ability to translate
may vary greatly with the variation in the artist's what he saw into something entirely personal,
moods, and it may change in character under the Whatever he touched he glorified by investing it
influence of new impressions. But in all its with a sentiment nobly dignified and exquisitely
phases, if it is the product of a temperament that refined, and by transmuting things obvious and
is strong and independent, it will be definitely commonplace into jewels of inestimable value. In
personal and always to be recognised as part of everything he painted he seized unhesitatingly upon
the character of the man who is making assertion the opportunities which the subject afforded for
of his artistic convictions. At its worst, this sen- the expression of his own aesthetic feeling, and he
timent may lapse into a convention, into the used its possibilities with infinite resource. Selec-
repetition of certain tricks of expression, and into tion in his case meant the choice of a motive
'BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE" (WATER-COLOUR)
(In the possession of Miss McGhee)
86
BY ALBERT GOODWIN, R.W.S.