DOI Heft:
Nr. 160 (June 1910)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19866#0402
Studio- Talk
summer exhibition of the Royal Academy, we an order to decorate a part of the Imperial Palace
shall defer what we have to say till next month, at Peking—an honour never accorded any foreign
when we hope, as usual, to reproduce a selec- painter before. His heavy, strong brush work was
tion of the works exhibited. We propose in the no doubt a little difficult for his imperial patrons to
same number to give some of the interesting understand at first, but a little acquaintance with
things from the exhibition of the International the spirit and methods of Eastern art is sufficient
Society at the Grafton Galleries, which we under- to make clear the nobility of Sesshu's ideas and
stand will continue to be the Society's show-place the power of his execution,
now that the New Gallery has been closed to art. --
- The exhibition now being held at the French
The footsteps of multitudes of art-lovers will this Gallery, 120, Pall Mall, offers an excellent oppor-
summer be turned to the Great White City at tunity of considering the work of three of the most
Shepherd's Bush, where a bounteous feast has been gifted painters of the last generation in its relation
prepared for them in the Japan-British Exhibition. to that of present-day artists now showing at
There can be no question that, so far as art is con- Burlington House and the Grafton Galleries; for
cerned, the display is the finest of its kind ever the influence of Maris, Mauve, and Fantin un-
brought together. The assemblage of British works doubtedly shows itself in certain phases of the
of art at the Franco-British Exhibition, two years art of to-day. But apart from the opportunity of
ago, was a remarkable one,
but the present collection
is even more noteworthy.
The King has signified his
interest in the Fine Art
section by lending a group
of historical works, and
many other distinguished
owners have been gener-
ous in their loans of
masterpieces. The price-
less treasures which have
been sent to the exhibi-
tion from Japan will of
course attract many stu-
dents and connoisseurs,
eager to avail themselves
of the rare opportunity
afforded them of making
intimate acquaintance
with the artistic genius of
Nippon. One of the works
on view in this section is
the Chinese Landscape
reproduced opposite. It
was painted in ink by
the famous Sesshu, a
painter priest of the
fifteenth century and one
of the half-dozen greatest
of Japanese artists.
Sesshu spent some years
in China, where his genius
was acknowledged as
readily as in his own *(a dutch interior" by james mark
country, and he received (By permission of Messrs. Thos. Wallis & Sou)
3°3
summer exhibition of the Royal Academy, we an order to decorate a part of the Imperial Palace
shall defer what we have to say till next month, at Peking—an honour never accorded any foreign
when we hope, as usual, to reproduce a selec- painter before. His heavy, strong brush work was
tion of the works exhibited. We propose in the no doubt a little difficult for his imperial patrons to
same number to give some of the interesting understand at first, but a little acquaintance with
things from the exhibition of the International the spirit and methods of Eastern art is sufficient
Society at the Grafton Galleries, which we under- to make clear the nobility of Sesshu's ideas and
stand will continue to be the Society's show-place the power of his execution,
now that the New Gallery has been closed to art. --
- The exhibition now being held at the French
The footsteps of multitudes of art-lovers will this Gallery, 120, Pall Mall, offers an excellent oppor-
summer be turned to the Great White City at tunity of considering the work of three of the most
Shepherd's Bush, where a bounteous feast has been gifted painters of the last generation in its relation
prepared for them in the Japan-British Exhibition. to that of present-day artists now showing at
There can be no question that, so far as art is con- Burlington House and the Grafton Galleries; for
cerned, the display is the finest of its kind ever the influence of Maris, Mauve, and Fantin un-
brought together. The assemblage of British works doubtedly shows itself in certain phases of the
of art at the Franco-British Exhibition, two years art of to-day. But apart from the opportunity of
ago, was a remarkable one,
but the present collection
is even more noteworthy.
The King has signified his
interest in the Fine Art
section by lending a group
of historical works, and
many other distinguished
owners have been gener-
ous in their loans of
masterpieces. The price-
less treasures which have
been sent to the exhibi-
tion from Japan will of
course attract many stu-
dents and connoisseurs,
eager to avail themselves
of the rare opportunity
afforded them of making
intimate acquaintance
with the artistic genius of
Nippon. One of the works
on view in this section is
the Chinese Landscape
reproduced opposite. It
was painted in ink by
the famous Sesshu, a
painter priest of the
fifteenth century and one
of the half-dozen greatest
of Japanese artists.
Sesshu spent some years
in China, where his genius
was acknowledged as
readily as in his own *(a dutch interior" by james mark
country, and he received (By permission of Messrs. Thos. Wallis & Sou)
3°3