DOI Heft:
Nr. 162 (August, 1910)
DOI Artikel:Larsen, Hanna Astrup: M. Evergood Blashki
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19867#0227
M. Evergood Blashki
A CHARACTERISTIC PAINTING BY CHARLES EISERT, (INI', OF THE YOUNGER
MEN WHOSE WORK HAS BEEN ATTRACTING ATTENTION
Blashki's work. He has
managed to convey the
sense of immensity without
the conventional device of
a distance, a middle dis-
tance and a hazy, shimmer-
ing horizon. The rocks of
the foreground cut right
into the low sky line, yet
there is a sense of vast
stretches.
The same is true of sev-
eral smaller upland pic-
tures, where the sense of
space is conveyed by some
arrangement of the planes
without resort to the graded
distances. The touch of
human nearness is often
given by some sign of
man's work, such as a few
piled-up rocks or an old
fence.
In A Lake the artist has
given his love of color full BBHK^'***3j3F
play. He has also shown
that he can paint hazy,
shimmering distances when
he chooses. The picture
defines the outline of a small lake set between slanting rays of the sun play through the mist like
rounded hills, with a brook trailing from it through a dance of the seven veils, sometimes flashing a
a ravine. Over these simple masses of form the gleam of blood red, sometimes throwing a pall of
gray and again gliding
through a thousand subtile
gradations of color.
Mr. Blashki has learned
to know nature in the free
outdoor life of Australia,
where he grew up. He was
educated in a public school
of the English type. He
came from Australia to San
Francisco ten years ago and
worked for the newspapers
in that city. In about a
year he decided that if he
was to do what he consid-
ered his real work he must
cut loose from the daily-
tasks of the office. He
then went to New York
and threw himself with all
Owned by Howard de Forest, Esq.
his strength into the task
THE ROCKY HILLTOP BY M. EVERGOOD BLASHKI of painting.
XLH
A CHARACTERISTIC PAINTING BY CHARLES EISERT, (INI', OF THE YOUNGER
MEN WHOSE WORK HAS BEEN ATTRACTING ATTENTION
Blashki's work. He has
managed to convey the
sense of immensity without
the conventional device of
a distance, a middle dis-
tance and a hazy, shimmer-
ing horizon. The rocks of
the foreground cut right
into the low sky line, yet
there is a sense of vast
stretches.
The same is true of sev-
eral smaller upland pic-
tures, where the sense of
space is conveyed by some
arrangement of the planes
without resort to the graded
distances. The touch of
human nearness is often
given by some sign of
man's work, such as a few
piled-up rocks or an old
fence.
In A Lake the artist has
given his love of color full BBHK^'***3j3F
play. He has also shown
that he can paint hazy,
shimmering distances when
he chooses. The picture
defines the outline of a small lake set between slanting rays of the sun play through the mist like
rounded hills, with a brook trailing from it through a dance of the seven veils, sometimes flashing a
a ravine. Over these simple masses of form the gleam of blood red, sometimes throwing a pall of
gray and again gliding
through a thousand subtile
gradations of color.
Mr. Blashki has learned
to know nature in the free
outdoor life of Australia,
where he grew up. He was
educated in a public school
of the English type. He
came from Australia to San
Francisco ten years ago and
worked for the newspapers
in that city. In about a
year he decided that if he
was to do what he consid-
ered his real work he must
cut loose from the daily-
tasks of the office. He
then went to New York
and threw himself with all
Owned by Howard de Forest, Esq.
his strength into the task
THE ROCKY HILLTOP BY M. EVERGOOD BLASHKI of painting.
XLH