DOI Heft:
No. 50 (May, 1897)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18388#0262
Studio- Talk
ground. Mr. John Finnie is to be praised for his There seems now some hope that the Royal
appreciation of wave movement in his mezzotint Academy is going to wake up to the necessity of
Outward Bound, and has been successful in sug- making a definite change in the arrangements for
gesting the turmoil of the sea without losing exact- the spring exhibition. The possibility of reducing
ness of drawing and form; and Sir Seymour Haden the number of works which outside artists may
contributed four very fine studies of atmospheric contribute has been for a long time discussed in a
effects ; the best was A?i Early Riser, of which plate half-hearted way ; but at last the absurdity of the
we reproduce an early state. Among the architec- present position of affairs and the reality of the
tural subjects hardly anything approached Mr. C. J. injury done to contemporary art by the conditions
INTERIOR OF ITALIAN WINE FARM FROM AN ETCHING BY D. Y. CAMERON, R.E.
Watson's St. Pierre, Lisieux, and Wells Cathedral, under which the Academy exhibitions are managed,
both of which illustrated to perfection his extraordi- seem to have been brought home to the authorities
nary skill in the rendering of minute detail which at Burlington House. It is said that no less than
is yet never allowed to become obtrusive or over- fifteen thousand works of art—so-called—were
laboured. Mr. A. H. Haig was as usual ambitious submitted this spring to the council; and it may
in his subjects, and exhaustive in his mode of fairly be assumed that at least ten thousand of
expressing them ; and Mr. C. O. Murray also gave these were absolutely unfit for public display,
very close attention to detail in his Magdalen Still all this huge mass of incompetent effort has
College, Oxford. Miss M. Bolingbroke's piece of had to pass solemnly before the jury of selection,
quaint imagining, Where the well-used Plough lies and, no matter how anxious this body may have
in the Furrow, is to be noted on account of its been to do its work thoroughly and fairly, some-
agreeable manner and its quality of execution. thing like exhaustion of the critical faculties must
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ground. Mr. John Finnie is to be praised for his There seems now some hope that the Royal
appreciation of wave movement in his mezzotint Academy is going to wake up to the necessity of
Outward Bound, and has been successful in sug- making a definite change in the arrangements for
gesting the turmoil of the sea without losing exact- the spring exhibition. The possibility of reducing
ness of drawing and form; and Sir Seymour Haden the number of works which outside artists may
contributed four very fine studies of atmospheric contribute has been for a long time discussed in a
effects ; the best was A?i Early Riser, of which plate half-hearted way ; but at last the absurdity of the
we reproduce an early state. Among the architec- present position of affairs and the reality of the
tural subjects hardly anything approached Mr. C. J. injury done to contemporary art by the conditions
INTERIOR OF ITALIAN WINE FARM FROM AN ETCHING BY D. Y. CAMERON, R.E.
Watson's St. Pierre, Lisieux, and Wells Cathedral, under which the Academy exhibitions are managed,
both of which illustrated to perfection his extraordi- seem to have been brought home to the authorities
nary skill in the rendering of minute detail which at Burlington House. It is said that no less than
is yet never allowed to become obtrusive or over- fifteen thousand works of art—so-called—were
laboured. Mr. A. H. Haig was as usual ambitious submitted this spring to the council; and it may
in his subjects, and exhaustive in his mode of fairly be assumed that at least ten thousand of
expressing them ; and Mr. C. O. Murray also gave these were absolutely unfit for public display,
very close attention to detail in his Magdalen Still all this huge mass of incompetent effort has
College, Oxford. Miss M. Bolingbroke's piece of had to pass solemnly before the jury of selection,
quaint imagining, Where the well-used Plough lies and, no matter how anxious this body may have
in the Furrow, is to be noted on account of its been to do its work thoroughly and fairly, some-
agreeable manner and its quality of execution. thing like exhaustion of the critical faculties must
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