DOI Heft:
No. 62 (May, 1898)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: Henry Moore's animal studies
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18391#0248
Henry Moore's Animal Studies
limits ; and each com-
mission would add to
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cal convention. A
from a study by henry moore, r.a. painter may find him-
self obliged to follow
one line only out of
liable to just reproach from his brother workers and the many to which he inclines, and may yet be
other experts, on the ground of his neglect of the sufficiently sincere to give to that line all the close
wider possibilities of his art. He has to choose study and all the search for vital variety which he
between two competing interests—his own and that could otherwise have bestowed upon greater matters,
of his profession. As a popular specialist he knows If he is so devoted, his specialism becomes magnifi-
that he will be free from all anxiety with regard to cent, because it is superbly complete. Everything
his future, and that a steady and sufficient income distinctive and characteristic is seized upon and
will be assured to him; as an inspired innovator, recorded. Nothing is left out which will help to
always trying new departures and constantly ex- illustrate his motives, and though the range allowed
perimenting in novel ways of asserting his indi- him may be a small one, it is filled to its utmost
viduality, he can look forward to the respect of his bounds with diligently collected material. There
fellow artists, and can regard as certain a great is, however, something pathetic in the chaining
posthumous reputation ; but his life will be one of down of so much ability. Any one who can observe
struggles and difficulties, and the people of his own with real sensitiveness, and can record observations
times will know nothing of him. He can hardly be with certainty and expressive exactness, should be
blamed if he does succumb
to so great a temptation,
and decides to sacrifice
something of the regard
which posterity may have
for him to gain the tangible
approval of the wealthy
collectors who insist upon
having imitations of his
first successes. Certainly,
if there is any treachery
to art involved in his ac-
quiescence, he has to suffer
the punishment. It is he
that would groan under the
burden of having to re-
arrange year by year the
same material, and would
resent the necessity to con-
fine himself within irksome from a study ,;v henry moore, r.a.
224
. 6 J'
limits ; and each com-
mission would add to
his suffering, for he
^, would feel more and
<^^^k^^# "~'v"k kniore hopelessly
^^<^^m^m^\ <: }:cdgcdin>andmore
/f^/^^f^//v^ jf\l\jMk ?SJS ' 5*J|r ' ^ definitely shut off from
JrWJF// I \N - ^S£J ;hosc wider nclds in
m^^j ^Jjjj j ^ ^ which U would be his
t*^"""^ whom specialism does
^ ^ ' ^ ^^ps Jo~ not necessarily mean
— W Uefrspfr* > descent into mechani-
cal convention. A
from a study by henry moore, r.a. painter may find him-
self obliged to follow
one line only out of
liable to just reproach from his brother workers and the many to which he inclines, and may yet be
other experts, on the ground of his neglect of the sufficiently sincere to give to that line all the close
wider possibilities of his art. He has to choose study and all the search for vital variety which he
between two competing interests—his own and that could otherwise have bestowed upon greater matters,
of his profession. As a popular specialist he knows If he is so devoted, his specialism becomes magnifi-
that he will be free from all anxiety with regard to cent, because it is superbly complete. Everything
his future, and that a steady and sufficient income distinctive and characteristic is seized upon and
will be assured to him; as an inspired innovator, recorded. Nothing is left out which will help to
always trying new departures and constantly ex- illustrate his motives, and though the range allowed
perimenting in novel ways of asserting his indi- him may be a small one, it is filled to its utmost
viduality, he can look forward to the respect of his bounds with diligently collected material. There
fellow artists, and can regard as certain a great is, however, something pathetic in the chaining
posthumous reputation ; but his life will be one of down of so much ability. Any one who can observe
struggles and difficulties, and the people of his own with real sensitiveness, and can record observations
times will know nothing of him. He can hardly be with certainty and expressive exactness, should be
blamed if he does succumb
to so great a temptation,
and decides to sacrifice
something of the regard
which posterity may have
for him to gain the tangible
approval of the wealthy
collectors who insist upon
having imitations of his
first successes. Certainly,
if there is any treachery
to art involved in his ac-
quiescence, he has to suffer
the punishment. It is he
that would groan under the
burden of having to re-
arrange year by year the
same material, and would
resent the necessity to con-
fine himself within irksome from a study ,;v henry moore, r.a.
224
. 6 J'