DOI Heft:
No. 58 (January, 1898)
DOI Artikel:White, Gleeson: Mr. Gerald Moira's paintings and bas-relief decoration
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18390#0269
Mr. Moira! s Paintings and Bas- Reliefs
be only vaguely indicative of his position in the art
ol to day. In the use of brilliant pigments, and in the
choice of poetic themes for a treatment which is
neither wholly archaic nor wholly realistic, there is
a certain similarity among these younger men which
to a certain extent may justify the temporary label.
From 1892, when Mr. Moira showed his P.A.
gold medal picture, Victory, his name has not been
absent from the catalogues of the Royal Academy.
Yet it is his decorations for the Trocadero which
have made him best known to the general public.
But this sentence must nol be held to imply that
the general public are more familiar with the
Golden <jifts for all ilw rest
Sorrow of heart for the kings daughter- SWiNBi rni
XII. No. 58.—January, 1898.
R. GERALD MO IRA'S
PAINTINGS AND BAS-
REL1 E F DECORATION.
BY GLEESON WHITE.
Mr. Gerald Moira, whose
studies and paintings form the subject of this
paper, belongs to a group of modern painters that
has not yet received a popular distinctive nickname
akin to those bestowed on the Impressionists, the
neo Primitives, and the rest: perhaps "of the
school of |. W. Waterhouse, R.A.," would serve
as well as anv other generic term. Put it would
FROM A PAINTING BY GRRALD MOIRA
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be only vaguely indicative of his position in the art
ol to day. In the use of brilliant pigments, and in the
choice of poetic themes for a treatment which is
neither wholly archaic nor wholly realistic, there is
a certain similarity among these younger men which
to a certain extent may justify the temporary label.
From 1892, when Mr. Moira showed his P.A.
gold medal picture, Victory, his name has not been
absent from the catalogues of the Royal Academy.
Yet it is his decorations for the Trocadero which
have made him best known to the general public.
But this sentence must nol be held to imply that
the general public are more familiar with the
Golden <jifts for all ilw rest
Sorrow of heart for the kings daughter- SWiNBi rni
XII. No. 58.—January, 1898.
R. GERALD MO IRA'S
PAINTINGS AND BAS-
REL1 E F DECORATION.
BY GLEESON WHITE.
Mr. Gerald Moira, whose
studies and paintings form the subject of this
paper, belongs to a group of modern painters that
has not yet received a popular distinctive nickname
akin to those bestowed on the Impressionists, the
neo Primitives, and the rest: perhaps "of the
school of |. W. Waterhouse, R.A.," would serve
as well as anv other generic term. Put it would
FROM A PAINTING BY GRRALD MOIRA
223