Frank Brangwyn and his Art
"the scoffers" from a painting by frank brangwyn
{Purchased by the N.S.IV. Government for the Sydney National Gallery)
rings the changes on stereotyped phrases. Indeed gives to his art its primary attraction. As I have
I haw never learned the prattle of the galleries already hinted, while many of his most hostile
and am not able to use its vocabulary. I leave critics among contemporary painters never did and
tlie task of dealing with Mr. Brangwyn's art as never will get beyond the stage of the sketch, he is
one may deal with a sum in vulgar fractions to my painting pictures, and pictures which will live and
betters. To me his art is fresh, strong and manly; stand out hereafter from among the mass of mere
it has imagination ; it is always interesting, always memoranda with which the walls of a score or
stimulating. '1 hat his drawing is sometimes, nay more galleries are replenished annually. Again,
often, faulty, I do not pretend to deny. I am as although, in a sense, Frank Brangwyn is an ex-
littleconcerned to dispute the statement that his perimentalist, he is so with this difference; he
confidence betrays him, now and again, into using does not paint with a view to the production of a
a somewhat reckless palette. It is, however, this picture some day; he starts every work with the
y iry ^anty ot courage, this greatly daring to intention of bringing it to completion. Success,
attempt big work which, so far as 1 am concerned, such as it is, will crown the efforts of quite feeble
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"the scoffers" from a painting by frank brangwyn
{Purchased by the N.S.IV. Government for the Sydney National Gallery)
rings the changes on stereotyped phrases. Indeed gives to his art its primary attraction. As I have
I haw never learned the prattle of the galleries already hinted, while many of his most hostile
and am not able to use its vocabulary. I leave critics among contemporary painters never did and
tlie task of dealing with Mr. Brangwyn's art as never will get beyond the stage of the sketch, he is
one may deal with a sum in vulgar fractions to my painting pictures, and pictures which will live and
betters. To me his art is fresh, strong and manly; stand out hereafter from among the mass of mere
it has imagination ; it is always interesting, always memoranda with which the walls of a score or
stimulating. '1 hat his drawing is sometimes, nay more galleries are replenished annually. Again,
often, faulty, I do not pretend to deny. I am as although, in a sense, Frank Brangwyn is an ex-
littleconcerned to dispute the statement that his perimentalist, he is so with this difference; he
confidence betrays him, now and again, into using does not paint with a view to the production of a
a somewhat reckless palette. It is, however, this picture some day; he starts every work with the
y iry ^anty ot courage, this greatly daring to intention of bringing it to completion. Success,
attempt big work which, so far as 1 am concerned, such as it is, will crown the efforts of quite feeble
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