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Nr. 169 (March, 1911)
DOI Artikel:West, W. K.: Some examples of recent work by Mr. Frank Brangwyn, A. R. A.
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43446#0052
Recent Work by Frank Brangwyn, A.R.A.
“street of letoganni” (water-colour sketch)
BY FRANK BRANGWYN, A.R.A.
touts of all the other
cliques, who shout one
against the other to in-
duce him to inspect their
wares instead, and who
seek violently to prove to
him that the direction he
is thinking of taking leads
inevitably to aesthetic per-
dition. No wonder if he
is reduced to a condition
of helpless uncertainty by
the riot around him, and
decides finally to take
refuge in those peaceful
wastes where art, with her
ragged following of quar-
relsome fanatics, is never
seen. It is hardly to be
expected that he should
retain any desire to play
the part of art patron
when, whatever he does,
its claims to attention in the press. Each group
advertises itself as the only one which has the real
message to deliver in art; and each one sneers at
all the others as shameless perverters of the truth.
he is abused by noisy hordes whose only anxiety
is to prove that he has made a fool of himself.
But it is just this type of patron, who has breadth
of aesthetic outlook and who does not wish to limit
They have no common meeting ground on which
they can work together for the benefit of art as a
whole, and they all claim that the man who accepts
the dogma of any particular group must necessarily
be antagonistic to every other and must be treated
himself to recognition of only one phase of artistic
expression, that is ready to welcome the inde-
pendent artist. He finds in the worker who has
not subscribed to any of the fashionable formulas
much to admire and much to sympathise with, he
as an active enemy by all
the people from whom he
differs in opinion.
As a result of this ridic-
ulous sub-division of the
art world into small
cliques, the relation of the
artist to the public has
been very seriously
affected. The ordinary
well-meaning buyer, who
has aesthetic inclinations
and wants to satisfy them,
is bewildered and worried
by the conflict of opinion
which he finds is raging
on all sides. If he is seen
looking into one of the
pigeon-holes in search of
something which appeals
to his taste, he is imme-
diately surrounded by the
“the valley of the lot” (water-colour sketch)
BY FRANK BRANGWYN, A.R.A.
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“street of letoganni” (water-colour sketch)
BY FRANK BRANGWYN, A.R.A.
touts of all the other
cliques, who shout one
against the other to in-
duce him to inspect their
wares instead, and who
seek violently to prove to
him that the direction he
is thinking of taking leads
inevitably to aesthetic per-
dition. No wonder if he
is reduced to a condition
of helpless uncertainty by
the riot around him, and
decides finally to take
refuge in those peaceful
wastes where art, with her
ragged following of quar-
relsome fanatics, is never
seen. It is hardly to be
expected that he should
retain any desire to play
the part of art patron
when, whatever he does,
its claims to attention in the press. Each group
advertises itself as the only one which has the real
message to deliver in art; and each one sneers at
all the others as shameless perverters of the truth.
he is abused by noisy hordes whose only anxiety
is to prove that he has made a fool of himself.
But it is just this type of patron, who has breadth
of aesthetic outlook and who does not wish to limit
They have no common meeting ground on which
they can work together for the benefit of art as a
whole, and they all claim that the man who accepts
the dogma of any particular group must necessarily
be antagonistic to every other and must be treated
himself to recognition of only one phase of artistic
expression, that is ready to welcome the inde-
pendent artist. He finds in the worker who has
not subscribed to any of the fashionable formulas
much to admire and much to sympathise with, he
as an active enemy by all
the people from whom he
differs in opinion.
As a result of this ridic-
ulous sub-division of the
art world into small
cliques, the relation of the
artist to the public has
been very seriously
affected. The ordinary
well-meaning buyer, who
has aesthetic inclinations
and wants to satisfy them,
is bewildered and worried
by the conflict of opinion
which he finds is raging
on all sides. If he is seen
looking into one of the
pigeon-holes in search of
something which appeals
to his taste, he is imme-
diately surrounded by the
“the valley of the lot” (water-colour sketch)
BY FRANK BRANGWYN, A.R.A.
4