DOI Heft:
No. 39 (June, 1896)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: The work of Solomon J. Solomon
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17297#0017
THE STUDIO
HE WORK OF SOLOMON T This inclination on his part was no doubt greatly
SOLOMON, A.R.A. BY A. LYS encou;afd J* the manne! of his artfic Ringing
BALDRY whole course of training through which
he went was well calculated to develop his instinc-
It is not quite easy to understand tive tendency towards idealism in subject and
why the election of Mr. Solomon J. Solomon to an manner, and to foster that love of sumptuous
Associateship of the Royal Academy should have arrangement which inspires every canvas he pro-
become an accomplished fact only within the last duces. He made his first serious steps in the
few months. He has been for so long an obviously difficult path of art just twenty years ago, when, at
proper person to sit in one of the seats of authority the age of sixteen, he entered Heatherley's School
at Burlington House, that he might quite reason- of Art, the studio which has seen the earliest
ably have been called within the gates some years attempts of many another important artist. After
ago. He has since the exhibition of his Cassandra about a year's work there at drawing from the
maintained in successive canvases an unusual antique and from life, he passed into the Royal
evenness of practice ; and has very consistently Academy schools, where he remained as a student
adhered in the devising of his pictures to those for a period of three years. His study there was,
academic principles which commend themselves to however, of a more or less desultory kind, for, with
the official rulers of our national art. His claim to characteristic ambition, he started even at this early
the recognition which is
implied by inclusion among
the Associates was quite as
strong when he painted his
Samson or his Niobe as it is
now. He has matured,
perhaps, since then ; he has
gained greater subtlety and
more power of selection, he
has certainly improved in his
expression of passion, and in
knowledge how to give in
his rendering of facial move-
ment effective suggestion of
emotion. But he has not,
as so many artists have done, ^^^j^Bj^- ■■ V
settled down into a particu-
lar line of work only after
having experimented in
various directions. From
the first his inclinations have
steadily tended in the direc-
tion of imaginative rather
than episodical art, and he
has striven constantly to
secure those qualities of
definite style and systematic
arrangement which are ac-
cepted as characteristic of
the academic school. from a study by solomon j. solomon, a.r.a.
VIII. No. 39.—June, 1896. 3
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HE WORK OF SOLOMON T This inclination on his part was no doubt greatly
SOLOMON, A.R.A. BY A. LYS encou;afd J* the manne! of his artfic Ringing
BALDRY whole course of training through which
he went was well calculated to develop his instinc-
It is not quite easy to understand tive tendency towards idealism in subject and
why the election of Mr. Solomon J. Solomon to an manner, and to foster that love of sumptuous
Associateship of the Royal Academy should have arrangement which inspires every canvas he pro-
become an accomplished fact only within the last duces. He made his first serious steps in the
few months. He has been for so long an obviously difficult path of art just twenty years ago, when, at
proper person to sit in one of the seats of authority the age of sixteen, he entered Heatherley's School
at Burlington House, that he might quite reason- of Art, the studio which has seen the earliest
ably have been called within the gates some years attempts of many another important artist. After
ago. He has since the exhibition of his Cassandra about a year's work there at drawing from the
maintained in successive canvases an unusual antique and from life, he passed into the Royal
evenness of practice ; and has very consistently Academy schools, where he remained as a student
adhered in the devising of his pictures to those for a period of three years. His study there was,
academic principles which commend themselves to however, of a more or less desultory kind, for, with
the official rulers of our national art. His claim to characteristic ambition, he started even at this early
the recognition which is
implied by inclusion among
the Associates was quite as
strong when he painted his
Samson or his Niobe as it is
now. He has matured,
perhaps, since then ; he has
gained greater subtlety and
more power of selection, he
has certainly improved in his
expression of passion, and in
knowledge how to give in
his rendering of facial move-
ment effective suggestion of
emotion. But he has not,
as so many artists have done, ^^^j^Bj^- ■■ V
settled down into a particu-
lar line of work only after
having experimented in
various directions. From
the first his inclinations have
steadily tended in the direc-
tion of imaginative rather
than episodical art, and he
has striven constantly to
secure those qualities of
definite style and systematic
arrangement which are ac-
cepted as characteristic of
the academic school. from a study by solomon j. solomon, a.r.a.
VIII. No. 39.—June, 1896. 3
3*W