DOI Heft:
No. 37 (April, 1896)
DOI Artikel:Wedmore, Frederick: The work of Alfred East
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17296#0148
The Work of A If red East
store by their acquaintance with her unless it was such work, the restful, measured grace of his com-
their privilege to see her in undress. In finris position has in it something that is derived from
naturalibus—not draped at all, with not one jot of Claude and Poussin, or something that in England
the charm of concealment or of decoration, must suggests George Barret and Samuel Palmer. At
the world be to the Romanticist of France, unless another hour, but that is in a very occasional one,
it may please him, almost
in a spirit of irony, to ad-
dress himself to the realism
of Haverstock Hill, the
widening road, the cabman's
shelter with snow upon the
roof of it, the district Post
Office, the cab-rank by the
"George;" or, again, to
that Road in St. John's
Wood, the theme of a
sketch which the pages of
The Studio record.
Certain work gives him
claim—if he wishes to assert
it—to be associated with
one school, one creed, one
"movement," if I must, in
accordance with the ridicu-
lous fashion of the day,
employ a word which im-
plies a studied combination,
implies a philosophical
cause for the advent or the
dominance at a particular
time of a particular class
of picture, when all, I think,
that is really dominant is one
great individuality. And
certain other work gives Mr.
East claim to be associated
with some school, creed, or
"movement," wholly differ-
// ent. Yet all the while he
/ remains himself. And
j ! whether something in a
given picture—the some-
thing by which we seek to
identify it — recalls the
"A STREET IN CANTON'" FROM A SKETCH BY ALFRED EAST, R.I. . ,, _
Classic, the .Romantic, or
the Realistic, the picture's
indeed the Romanticist be endowed with the taste truest characteristic, if Alfred East has painted
of Corot, or with the style of Diaz. it, will be that it is poetic, that it exalts and in a
It may please Alfred East at another moment, measure dignifies and refines upon the actual scene
as he looks at the unfinished canvas of Pan Teach- which was its first motive : that, in other words, it
ing Daphnis, or at the already exhibited picture of is Nature seen not only through temperament, but
Daphnis piping solitary in some Sicilian mead—it through a temperament that loves to idealise—nay,
may please him then to consider himself Classic ; that can scarcely help idealising,
and certainly the ordered harmony of his " line " in It is one of the distinctions of Alfred East—
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store by their acquaintance with her unless it was such work, the restful, measured grace of his com-
their privilege to see her in undress. In finris position has in it something that is derived from
naturalibus—not draped at all, with not one jot of Claude and Poussin, or something that in England
the charm of concealment or of decoration, must suggests George Barret and Samuel Palmer. At
the world be to the Romanticist of France, unless another hour, but that is in a very occasional one,
it may please him, almost
in a spirit of irony, to ad-
dress himself to the realism
of Haverstock Hill, the
widening road, the cabman's
shelter with snow upon the
roof of it, the district Post
Office, the cab-rank by the
"George;" or, again, to
that Road in St. John's
Wood, the theme of a
sketch which the pages of
The Studio record.
Certain work gives him
claim—if he wishes to assert
it—to be associated with
one school, one creed, one
"movement," if I must, in
accordance with the ridicu-
lous fashion of the day,
employ a word which im-
plies a studied combination,
implies a philosophical
cause for the advent or the
dominance at a particular
time of a particular class
of picture, when all, I think,
that is really dominant is one
great individuality. And
certain other work gives Mr.
East claim to be associated
with some school, creed, or
"movement," wholly differ-
// ent. Yet all the while he
/ remains himself. And
j ! whether something in a
given picture—the some-
thing by which we seek to
identify it — recalls the
"A STREET IN CANTON'" FROM A SKETCH BY ALFRED EAST, R.I. . ,, _
Classic, the .Romantic, or
the Realistic, the picture's
indeed the Romanticist be endowed with the taste truest characteristic, if Alfred East has painted
of Corot, or with the style of Diaz. it, will be that it is poetic, that it exalts and in a
It may please Alfred East at another moment, measure dignifies and refines upon the actual scene
as he looks at the unfinished canvas of Pan Teach- which was its first motive : that, in other words, it
ing Daphnis, or at the already exhibited picture of is Nature seen not only through temperament, but
Daphnis piping solitary in some Sicilian mead—it through a temperament that loves to idealise—nay,
may please him then to consider himself Classic ; that can scarcely help idealising,
and certainly the ordered harmony of his " line " in It is one of the distinctions of Alfred East—
134