Studio: international art (13.1898)

Studio- Talk

Mr. R. Aiming Bell contributes several of his
graceful and interesting works, which have already
been described and illustrated in The Studio, to-
gether with others of more recent date. His frieze
in relief, entitled Music and Dancing, illustrated
herewith, is treated with his characteristic strength
of colour. In order to preserve the delicacy of
modelling of the draperies, some of its applied
ornament might perhaps with advantage have been
less emphasised in colour. In Mr. Bell's cartoon

for a stained-glass window, The Crucifixion for
Bryanston Church, one is impressed with the deep
devotional feeling and the grace and dignity of each
of the figures, and their arrangement in the window
spaces is undeniably good composition. Many of the
delightful examples of copper and brass work con-
tributed by R. LI. B. Rathbone have already been
described and illustrated in The Studio, and with
his designs executed by A. Hughes they form a col-
lection ranking in the highest order of craftsmanship.

The opportunity af-
forded by this exhibition
of reviewing the lines of
progress made by the
various local art schools
and of comparing the
students' work is an inter-
esting one. As regards
the School of Architecture
and Applied Art, under
the direction of Professor
Simpson at University
College, the progress is
well defined, even though
some of the handicraft
classes have been so

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