DOI Heft:
No. 25 (April, 1895)
DOI Artikel:Bates, Dewey: George Clausen
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17294#0014
George Clausen
Vandycks, of that glorious period of Netherlandish
art. He was quick, too, to perceive that if there
was any mystery in art it consisted in acquiring the
facility of representing Nature in the simplest way
possible; that it was not by tricks or formulas
that the great painters of the past produced their
masterpieces.
An English student at the Academy in Antwerp
was taught this somewhat brusquely perhaps, but,
nevertheless, efficaciously. He had come over
imbued with the idea, doubtless acquired at some
scape. M. Van Lerius took a large brush, and
dipping it into the violent green swept it across the
timidly painted and ruddy torse, with the remark,
" There ! you want more of that."
Although he cannot be said to have received any
Academic training, Mr. Clausen was thrown into
the society of men who had, and through their
influence he may be said to have lost his timidity
in Antwerp, and, later on, to have acquired the re-
finements of contour and modelling of the French
school.
"EVENING SONG" BY GEORGE CLAUSEN, A.R.A.
{By permission oj Messrs. Boussod Valadon & Co.)
local art school in London, that excessive smooth- Mr. Clausen's first Academy success was the
ness was the great thing to be desired in a study outcome of a summer vacation visit with the writer
from life. A week was allowed for the painting of to the island of Marken, in the Zuyder Zee, at that
a torse from life, and on the Saturday, when the time a terra incognita to artists. At the adjoining
professor, the late M. Van Lerius, came to give his fishing village of Volendam there was a celebration
last criticism, our friend had licked his study into of " High Mass " one Sunday, and as there was
a most delectable state of polish. M. Van Lerius not room in the church for those who wished to
stood for a moment before the enamelled-looking attend, there was a picturesque group of fishermen
piece of work, but which in spite of its smoothness with their wives and children kneeling outside,
blushed with the colour of a rosy dawn. " Have with a shadowy perspective visible within the small
you any green on your palette " ? he asked. The edifice. Mr. Clausen was alive to the paintable
student happened to have a dab of Zinnober possibilities of the scene, and although it was
green with which he had been painting a land- somewhat of an ambitious effort he accomplished
Vandycks, of that glorious period of Netherlandish
art. He was quick, too, to perceive that if there
was any mystery in art it consisted in acquiring the
facility of representing Nature in the simplest way
possible; that it was not by tricks or formulas
that the great painters of the past produced their
masterpieces.
An English student at the Academy in Antwerp
was taught this somewhat brusquely perhaps, but,
nevertheless, efficaciously. He had come over
imbued with the idea, doubtless acquired at some
scape. M. Van Lerius took a large brush, and
dipping it into the violent green swept it across the
timidly painted and ruddy torse, with the remark,
" There ! you want more of that."
Although he cannot be said to have received any
Academic training, Mr. Clausen was thrown into
the society of men who had, and through their
influence he may be said to have lost his timidity
in Antwerp, and, later on, to have acquired the re-
finements of contour and modelling of the French
school.
"EVENING SONG" BY GEORGE CLAUSEN, A.R.A.
{By permission oj Messrs. Boussod Valadon & Co.)
local art school in London, that excessive smooth- Mr. Clausen's first Academy success was the
ness was the great thing to be desired in a study outcome of a summer vacation visit with the writer
from life. A week was allowed for the painting of to the island of Marken, in the Zuyder Zee, at that
a torse from life, and on the Saturday, when the time a terra incognita to artists. At the adjoining
professor, the late M. Van Lerius, came to give his fishing village of Volendam there was a celebration
last criticism, our friend had licked his study into of " High Mass " one Sunday, and as there was
a most delectable state of polish. M. Van Lerius not room in the church for those who wished to
stood for a moment before the enamelled-looking attend, there was a picturesque group of fishermen
piece of work, but which in spite of its smoothness with their wives and children kneeling outside,
blushed with the colour of a rosy dawn. " Have with a shadowy perspective visible within the small
you any green on your palette " ? he asked. The edifice. Mr. Clausen was alive to the paintable
student happened to have a dab of Zinnober possibilities of the scene, and although it was
green with which he had been painting a land- somewhat of an ambitious effort he accomplished