DOI Heft:
No. 54 (September, 1897)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18389#0298
Studio- Talk
style. Some of these
rooms present a really
charming appearance,
such as one hardly expects
to see in a universal exhi-
bition, where, as a rule,
one is chiefly impressed
by the general crowding
and muddle.
The English display
was a great success from
the outset, and never was
success better deserved.
Not often has one the
opportunity of seeing such
a combination of genuine
artistic qualities, such lofti-
ness of imagination, such
sentiment, such honesty
of purpose and care in
execution. To arrive at
this point, doubtless a
great effort must have
been required; there must
have been moments of
hesitation, false steps
occasionally, and futile
WOVEN HANGINGS AT THE STOCKHOLM EXHIBITION attempts. But 110W that
the goal has been reached,
and we see the work in
old shapes, all bearing witness to the assiduity with fullest expansion, all this may well be forgotten ;
which each individual member of the family has for the fact is England is at the head of the end-of-
worked for the common good. S. S. the-century art movement.
BRUSSELS.—The Fine Arts section,
although disposed in a somewhat
rudimentary building, is decidedly the
most attractive feature of the Brussels
International Exhibition. Four
srhools are more or less adequately represented,
those, namely, of England, France, Holland, and
Belgium. Italy has sent a not very remarkable
display, while Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, and
Germany are represented by a few works grouped
together in an International Section. Speaking
generally the works seem to have been well chosen
and judiciously hung. This is especially noticeable
in the Belgian Galleries, where the Hanging Com-
mittee, after rejecting two-thirds of the works sent
in, have arranged the selected canvases with great
care, always striving to avoid a second row of ex-
hibits, and doing all in their power to place the
works in satisfactory order, and in groups of similar
268
English art has seldom been better represented
on the Continent than here; and the organisers of
the Exhibition, together with the artists who were
entrusted with the hanging—Messrs. Val Prinsep,
R.A., and J. Fulleylove, R.I., with Mr. Isidore
Spielmann, the honorary secretary—maybe heartily
congratulated on the happy result of their arduous
labours.
The general display of the Belgian artists, com-
pared as a whole with that of the Englishmen,
appears at first sight to be somewhat lacking in
loftiness of sentiment and refinement of execution.
Works of fancy are few and far between; for the
most part our portrait painters prefer to study
values and tones rather than psychology; while
the landscapists put before the expression of feel-
ing a regard for effects of brush work. The result is
"that the most satisfactory works are those devoted to
style. Some of these
rooms present a really
charming appearance,
such as one hardly expects
to see in a universal exhi-
bition, where, as a rule,
one is chiefly impressed
by the general crowding
and muddle.
The English display
was a great success from
the outset, and never was
success better deserved.
Not often has one the
opportunity of seeing such
a combination of genuine
artistic qualities, such lofti-
ness of imagination, such
sentiment, such honesty
of purpose and care in
execution. To arrive at
this point, doubtless a
great effort must have
been required; there must
have been moments of
hesitation, false steps
occasionally, and futile
WOVEN HANGINGS AT THE STOCKHOLM EXHIBITION attempts. But 110W that
the goal has been reached,
and we see the work in
old shapes, all bearing witness to the assiduity with fullest expansion, all this may well be forgotten ;
which each individual member of the family has for the fact is England is at the head of the end-of-
worked for the common good. S. S. the-century art movement.
BRUSSELS.—The Fine Arts section,
although disposed in a somewhat
rudimentary building, is decidedly the
most attractive feature of the Brussels
International Exhibition. Four
srhools are more or less adequately represented,
those, namely, of England, France, Holland, and
Belgium. Italy has sent a not very remarkable
display, while Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, and
Germany are represented by a few works grouped
together in an International Section. Speaking
generally the works seem to have been well chosen
and judiciously hung. This is especially noticeable
in the Belgian Galleries, where the Hanging Com-
mittee, after rejecting two-thirds of the works sent
in, have arranged the selected canvases with great
care, always striving to avoid a second row of ex-
hibits, and doing all in their power to place the
works in satisfactory order, and in groups of similar
268
English art has seldom been better represented
on the Continent than here; and the organisers of
the Exhibition, together with the artists who were
entrusted with the hanging—Messrs. Val Prinsep,
R.A., and J. Fulleylove, R.I., with Mr. Isidore
Spielmann, the honorary secretary—maybe heartily
congratulated on the happy result of their arduous
labours.
The general display of the Belgian artists, com-
pared as a whole with that of the Englishmen,
appears at first sight to be somewhat lacking in
loftiness of sentiment and refinement of execution.
Works of fancy are few and far between; for the
most part our portrait painters prefer to study
values and tones rather than psychology; while
the landscapists put before the expression of feel-
ing a regard for effects of brush work. The result is
"that the most satisfactory works are those devoted to