Studio: international art (9.1897)

Studio- Talk

or lithograph ; nor is there, on the other hand,
any attempt made in the direction of a more com-
plete and detailed treatment. Too often the artist
has been content with a meaningless space of flat
and uninteresting colour which has little or no
reference to the lines of the composition proper.

students; but this class is not so generally good as
it might be, considering that it forms part of the
regular course of the school. On the whole the
exhibition is interesting, and shows that at Kensing-
ton there is, at all events, plenty of good material
full of promise for the future.

But in spite of these faults—the result of want The opening of the Technical School of Arts
of experience rather than anything else—there is and Crafts, under the auspices of the Education
much to praise in the exhibition. Mr. Shackleton Department of the County Council, marks a most
has a most charming important innovation

study of a female--~| *n art tultion. The

figure in bright light ; scheme is planned to

and among the land- jtfji&klMk do what South Ken-

scapes in oils Mr. H. jM sington was instituted

Watson's work is very JM to carry out, not the

dainty ; Miss Agnes production of painters

Jones, also, shows a and sculptors, but of

set of water-colours competent craftsmen,

which are quite good Hence, we find be-

and sympathetic in sides provision for

colour. B^^tak^. study from the life-

model, for painting

A series of studies and modelling, that

in oils by Mr. H. rooms are fitted up

Yokes are successful for carving, designing.

attempts at catching a I enamelling, jeweller's
grateful note of bright fP^^pHRP^ work, and other sub-
colour—a valuable ex- jects that require not
ercise, for the ten- ^W; merely that the tech-
dency is too often to- nique of the design
wards a mere arrange- ^ should be adapted to
ment of half-tones; the material, but the
while Mr. Appleyard worker should himself
has realised an effect be acquainted with
of moonrise which is ^VaW'm^' m°demng>

any exhibition of tical aspect of his

J LANDSCAPE IN OILS BY H. WATSON L

water-colours. chosen craft.

Other good work is shown by Miss M. Wood-
ward, Messrs. Lenfestey, Clifford, Sydney Carter,
and G. P. Fisher. Mr. A. Hugh Fisher has an
excellent sheet of studies of birds. The black and
white is, this year, disappointing; it shows little
originality or knowledge of technique; but the
modelling—as usual at Kensington—is of great
merit; in this class we can instance the panels by
Miss Levick, and figures of a Mozver by Messrs.
McLean and Vokes. The etching is also credit-
able, Miss Hayes and Messrs. Burridge and A. H.
Fisher having each some good plates. Miss Miles
has an excellent portrait in oils of one of her fellow

Mr. George Frampton, A.R.A., and Mr. W. R.
Lethaby, have chosen a most admirably selected
outfit of casts, engravings, fine embroideries, pieces
of pottery, metal, and other specimens of ancient
work. They have been selected, obviously, for
their vital bearing upon modern design, and are
not limited to the Italian Renaissance, nor to any
definite period, but embrace fine class work of
all times and schools. Among the instructors
are Mr. Roscoe Mullins (sculpture), Mr. Fisher
(enamels), Mr. Margetson (painting and design),
Mr. C W. Whall (stained glass). The building
is large and admirably lighted. It is intended

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