Studio: international art (8.1896)

Studio- Talk

the winter evenings and smite
the sounding brass do so with
clumsy fingers and eyes dull
to the beauty of accurate
curves and faint modulations
in the designs they are set to
copy ; they like the noise and
fun of hammering, and take
some interest in following
the traced lines ever so
rudely, but that is about all,
and indeed that is all that
could be expected of them,
though it is only fair to say
that there are some excep-
tions and that financially the
class pays its way.

Still that the enterprise
should have partially failed
in the quarter for which it
was primarily devised, was
amongst those things which

COPPER PLAQUE FOR THE NEWLYN ART GALLERY BY J D. MACKENZIE COUld be foreseen by any

practical prophet of the most
ordinary x ray power. What

Whitechapel, came down to the margin of Mount's the practical prophet could not have foreseen was
Bay and taught the teachers his method. that some very artistic and beautiful work would

- be designed and executed under these rather hope-
That Mr. Bolitho's hope has hardly been fulfilled less circumstances,
in no way takes from the
kindliness of the intention,
nor does it preclude the
considerable success which
has been attained by the
brass-beating at Newlyn. It
is not only idle to suppose,
but it is hardly to be ex-
pected, that artistic instincts
should be scattered freely
in a fishing or, indeed, in
any village of any land,
and, without such prodigal
scattering of talent, surely a
craft so dependent upon per-
ceptions of no mean order
is relatively impossible.

One cannot benefit a large
community without a propor-
tionately devised scheme of
aid ; one cannot catch little
fishes in a wide-meshed net;
and so the lads who come in copper plaque for the newlyn art gallery by j. d. Mackenzie

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