DOI Heft:
No. 54 (September, 1897)
DOI Artikel:White, Gleeson: Some Glasgow designers and their work, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18389#0262
Some Glasgow Designers
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the arts, and especially of the active and passive bestows so wisely. When artistry of any sort is in the
encouragement given to its efforts, with the air, those individuals who seek to find expression
catholicity that is only found allied with ripe in pattern rather than in picture are emboldened
knowledge ; such as that which Mr. Francis New- to make experiments. They have a waiting body of
bery, head master of the Glasgow School of Art, sympathisers, and also a technically equipped group
of drastic critics whose very taunts goad them to
fresh efforts, including possibly an occasional
eccentricity produced in defiance. Luckily in
Glasgow they find also an official head, sympa-
thetic, tactful, and peculiarly capable.
But life and growth are always accompanied by
failures, in nature no less than in art. If some of
*';--. the flowers here pictured prove infertile it matters
little; there is enough vigour to allow for many
such. It is easy to over-prize novelty, and to rank
mere originality too high, and perhaps in the fore-
going pages the statement of the case has been
presented with too much personal bias in its
favour ; but when young artists try to strike out a
way of their own, and, heedless of ridicule or
censure, go on quietly and steadily, the least they
^X^y0^. - 3 are justified in expecting from unprejudiced out-
\N>^*f vcVv>: siders is a patient hearing. To plead for this, is not
Une*******^ • /~*-ri«*"T^'-^.i to assert that their way is the only way, much less
that it is faultless, or, so far, invariably convincing.
book-plate by j. Herbert mcnair its ephemeral, tentative efforts need not be criticised
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If
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Is 1- 11 * W i
JL..... ^
book-plate by j. herbert mcna1r
the arts, and especially of the active and passive bestows so wisely. When artistry of any sort is in the
encouragement given to its efforts, with the air, those individuals who seek to find expression
catholicity that is only found allied with ripe in pattern rather than in picture are emboldened
knowledge ; such as that which Mr. Francis New- to make experiments. They have a waiting body of
bery, head master of the Glasgow School of Art, sympathisers, and also a technically equipped group
of drastic critics whose very taunts goad them to
fresh efforts, including possibly an occasional
eccentricity produced in defiance. Luckily in
Glasgow they find also an official head, sympa-
thetic, tactful, and peculiarly capable.
But life and growth are always accompanied by
failures, in nature no less than in art. If some of
*';--. the flowers here pictured prove infertile it matters
little; there is enough vigour to allow for many
such. It is easy to over-prize novelty, and to rank
mere originality too high, and perhaps in the fore-
going pages the statement of the case has been
presented with too much personal bias in its
favour ; but when young artists try to strike out a
way of their own, and, heedless of ridicule or
censure, go on quietly and steadily, the least they
^X^y0^. - 3 are justified in expecting from unprejudiced out-
\N>^*f vcVv>: siders is a patient hearing. To plead for this, is not
Une*******^ • /~*-ri«*"T^'-^.i to assert that their way is the only way, much less
that it is faultless, or, so far, invariably convincing.
book-plate by j. Herbert mcnair its ephemeral, tentative efforts need not be criticised
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