DOI Heft:
Nr. 43 (October 1896)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17298#0081
Studio- Talk
ELBOURNE, VIC—A permanent The large figure subject by Mr. F. M. McCubbin
Exhibition was recently opened by treats of an every-day scene in the Australian
his Excellency the Governor, at bush—the settling down for the night of husband,
the Galleries of the Victorian wife, and baby-child after a weary day's march.
Artists' Society in Melbourne. In everything Mr. McCubbin paints there is that
The object of this permanent Exhibition is to spirit of truth which wins the sympathy of the
enable the artists to keep their work constantly heart. He tells us every-day stories, and we feel
before the public, and to establish a means by which they are true. With an innate love for bush-
lovers and possible purchasers of pictures may subjects, and with the scent of the eucalyptus in
readily obtain a chance of seeing the new work of his being, he can depict, with sympathetic feeling,
each man as it comes fresh from the easel. scenes which appeal to Australian hearts. In spite
- of this power, one feels he is, before everything, a
Of the pictures sent by the representative painters landscape painter, and that his pictures would
of ATictoria, the gem of the Exhibition was the gain in intensity if he subordinated the figures to
"IN THE BUSH FROM A PAINTING BY F. M. MCCUBBIN
head of a young and beautiful woman, by Mr. the landscape, and suggested them as a completion
John Longstaff. For excellence of technique and to the story from the Book of Nature, which he
beautiful handling,it stands quite by itself. The sub- can so well open up before us.
ject is a very charming one, and has been treated -
with sympathetic tenderness, grace, and simplicity. The Early Spring, of Mr. Walter Withers, is
Those who have seen the portrait of Mr. Phil May, painted with a force and yet a tender grace, which
by the same painter, will recognise the same salient suggests the impression made on the mind of the
points of strength and sweetness. This head should painter when brought face to face with the depart-
be a suggestive study to the Melbourne students. ing of winter and the blossoming herald of spring.
- The greyness of the winter is still there, but so is
Mr. E. Phillips Fox, in his portrait of a little girl, the rich pink of the peach blossom, which foretells
leaves something to be desired in the treatment of the spring; and the delicate, suggestive green of
the flesh and in the drawing of the hands, though the unfolding leaves stands out in relief against the
the artist has caught, most happily, the wistful ex- swiftly-passing, lowering clouds in the sky. The
pression of his little model, and has suggested very storms are passing, and the blossom holds forth
aptly the wondering mind of childhood. the promise of fruit. It is evening, but there is a
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ELBOURNE, VIC—A permanent The large figure subject by Mr. F. M. McCubbin
Exhibition was recently opened by treats of an every-day scene in the Australian
his Excellency the Governor, at bush—the settling down for the night of husband,
the Galleries of the Victorian wife, and baby-child after a weary day's march.
Artists' Society in Melbourne. In everything Mr. McCubbin paints there is that
The object of this permanent Exhibition is to spirit of truth which wins the sympathy of the
enable the artists to keep their work constantly heart. He tells us every-day stories, and we feel
before the public, and to establish a means by which they are true. With an innate love for bush-
lovers and possible purchasers of pictures may subjects, and with the scent of the eucalyptus in
readily obtain a chance of seeing the new work of his being, he can depict, with sympathetic feeling,
each man as it comes fresh from the easel. scenes which appeal to Australian hearts. In spite
- of this power, one feels he is, before everything, a
Of the pictures sent by the representative painters landscape painter, and that his pictures would
of ATictoria, the gem of the Exhibition was the gain in intensity if he subordinated the figures to
"IN THE BUSH FROM A PAINTING BY F. M. MCCUBBIN
head of a young and beautiful woman, by Mr. the landscape, and suggested them as a completion
John Longstaff. For excellence of technique and to the story from the Book of Nature, which he
beautiful handling,it stands quite by itself. The sub- can so well open up before us.
ject is a very charming one, and has been treated -
with sympathetic tenderness, grace, and simplicity. The Early Spring, of Mr. Walter Withers, is
Those who have seen the portrait of Mr. Phil May, painted with a force and yet a tender grace, which
by the same painter, will recognise the same salient suggests the impression made on the mind of the
points of strength and sweetness. This head should painter when brought face to face with the depart-
be a suggestive study to the Melbourne students. ing of winter and the blossoming herald of spring.
- The greyness of the winter is still there, but so is
Mr. E. Phillips Fox, in his portrait of a little girl, the rich pink of the peach blossom, which foretells
leaves something to be desired in the treatment of the spring; and the delicate, suggestive green of
the flesh and in the drawing of the hands, though the unfolding leaves stands out in relief against the
the artist has caught, most happily, the wistful ex- swiftly-passing, lowering clouds in the sky. The
pression of his little model, and has suggested very storms are passing, and the blossom holds forth
aptly the wondering mind of childhood. the promise of fruit. It is evening, but there is a
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