DOI Heft:
No. 7 (October, 1893)
DOI Artikel:Vallance, Aymer: The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society at the New Gallery, 1893
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17189#0018
The Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 1893
to a movement, certain set, and another that it attempts worthily all
and the rejected he holds worth attempting. It is not incumbent to
smarting with side with the extreme views of either, for both
what they deem alike are most probably largely imbued with personal
unmerited dis- taste and purely arbitrary likes and dislikes,
approval can Fine work in the crafts has been done outside
hardly be un- the Society, and good work of various styles that,
biassed in their judging by the governing ideal here, would be
criticism. Yet it distinctly unpleasing to the taste of the judges, is
is as well to re- not unknown in other places ; but that fact does
member that the not detract from the merit of the things now on view
Society is neither in the New Gallery. To say that these exhibits
a State-endowed by English craftsmen during a few years are not
body, nor one worth considering because they do not surpass, nor
that asks alms of even equal, a carefully selected group of the world's
the public, but an masterpieces, were as wise as saying that the
association which poetry of a similar period was absolutely con-
possesses a per- temptible because it is not above or equal to the
feet right to man- works of Dante and Shakespeare, Goethe and
age its own affairs Victor Hugo. Your superior person finds the art
in its own way. of the New Gallery inferior to his vague memories
Therefore, if it of the treasures of continental museums; your
prove consistent commonplace person decries its costliness, and says,
to its self-set " Why not turn out similar things in bulk, and
ideal, to criticise so lessen the price ? " As an American manufac-
it fairly, it should turer said to the present writer at a previous
design for glass window, in a „ ,,r , , . , .
drawing-room inglenook, by louis be studied not so exhibition: "Well, sir, these things don't interest
davis much with one me any. I could turn out a thousand copies of
eye on outsiders each of them by machinery. Look at that copper
and one on its collection, but as all art should be dish—if I wanted to, I should just make a die
studied, on its own merits. " Who shall say which and stamp 'em by the gross." There spoke the
of us is text, which of us is sermon " ? One person soul of the bourgeois ; and unless we happen to
may find its art narrow-minded, in the style of a enjoy the evidence of personal thought and care
6
aucassin and nicholete. designs for stained glass, by t. m. rooke
to a movement, certain set, and another that it attempts worthily all
and the rejected he holds worth attempting. It is not incumbent to
smarting with side with the extreme views of either, for both
what they deem alike are most probably largely imbued with personal
unmerited dis- taste and purely arbitrary likes and dislikes,
approval can Fine work in the crafts has been done outside
hardly be un- the Society, and good work of various styles that,
biassed in their judging by the governing ideal here, would be
criticism. Yet it distinctly unpleasing to the taste of the judges, is
is as well to re- not unknown in other places ; but that fact does
member that the not detract from the merit of the things now on view
Society is neither in the New Gallery. To say that these exhibits
a State-endowed by English craftsmen during a few years are not
body, nor one worth considering because they do not surpass, nor
that asks alms of even equal, a carefully selected group of the world's
the public, but an masterpieces, were as wise as saying that the
association which poetry of a similar period was absolutely con-
possesses a per- temptible because it is not above or equal to the
feet right to man- works of Dante and Shakespeare, Goethe and
age its own affairs Victor Hugo. Your superior person finds the art
in its own way. of the New Gallery inferior to his vague memories
Therefore, if it of the treasures of continental museums; your
prove consistent commonplace person decries its costliness, and says,
to its self-set " Why not turn out similar things in bulk, and
ideal, to criticise so lessen the price ? " As an American manufac-
it fairly, it should turer said to the present writer at a previous
design for glass window, in a „ ,,r , , . , .
drawing-room inglenook, by louis be studied not so exhibition: "Well, sir, these things don't interest
davis much with one me any. I could turn out a thousand copies of
eye on outsiders each of them by machinery. Look at that copper
and one on its collection, but as all art should be dish—if I wanted to, I should just make a die
studied, on its own merits. " Who shall say which and stamp 'em by the gross." There spoke the
of us is text, which of us is sermon " ? One person soul of the bourgeois ; and unless we happen to
may find its art narrow-minded, in the style of a enjoy the evidence of personal thought and care
6
aucassin and nicholete. designs for stained glass, by t. m. rooke