DOI Heft:
No. 70 (January 1899)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19230#0315
Studio- Talk
STUDIES OF MONKEYS
there is also that difference which marks the work
of the sculptor of genius from that of the sculptor
of ability. Rodin's friends have hastened to visit
this exhibition, for it is a real triumph for the great
modeller of the Porte de VEnfer and the Bourgeois
de Calais and so many other masterpieces.
Lachenal, the ceramic artist, has held his annual
exhibition at Georges Petit's. He is a decorator
possessed of infinite verve and fancy ; rightly or
wrongly, he holds that pure pottery, that is to say,
the art of adorning a vase with lovely enamels, is
not enough nowadays; that a well-decorated vase
is superior to an undecorated vase, no matter how
fine the latter may be. M. Lachenal exhibited
various striking examples of his two manners, and
revealed himself at once an accomplished technical
worker and a happily inspired decorator.
Thus, on large objects, he models ornaments in
relief admirably adapted to the style and the form
of each particular work ; or, again, he will simply
employ the flat enamels, which, I believe, he has
been the first to utilise ; in this way he obtains
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FROM AN ETCHING BY EVERT VAN MUYDEN
effects having a quality all their own, combined
with exquisite suppleness and material delicacy.
Together with his own works, M. Lachenal ex-
hibited on this occasion a score or so of articles
by M. Daum, the well-known glass - worker of
Nancy. These consisted of vases, varnished in
various colours, very charming in effect, and per-
fection itself in point of material.
M. Raffaelli issued invitations recently to a little
exhibition of his etchings in colours—twenty-four
in number—at the "Art Nouveau." It was quite
an artistic treat to note the originality, the spon-
taneity, and the fresh sincerity of these plates,
wherein we find emphatic evidence of his long-
recognised gifts as a draughtsman. ZJArbrejaune,
La Route aux Grands Arbres, and La Lettre appear
to me the most expressive. They are delightfully
free in style and technique, and display a dexterity
of treatment producing effects of infinite delicacy-
and real power.
As M. Roger Marx justly remarks in the preface.
283
STUDIES OF MONKEYS
there is also that difference which marks the work
of the sculptor of genius from that of the sculptor
of ability. Rodin's friends have hastened to visit
this exhibition, for it is a real triumph for the great
modeller of the Porte de VEnfer and the Bourgeois
de Calais and so many other masterpieces.
Lachenal, the ceramic artist, has held his annual
exhibition at Georges Petit's. He is a decorator
possessed of infinite verve and fancy ; rightly or
wrongly, he holds that pure pottery, that is to say,
the art of adorning a vase with lovely enamels, is
not enough nowadays; that a well-decorated vase
is superior to an undecorated vase, no matter how
fine the latter may be. M. Lachenal exhibited
various striking examples of his two manners, and
revealed himself at once an accomplished technical
worker and a happily inspired decorator.
Thus, on large objects, he models ornaments in
relief admirably adapted to the style and the form
of each particular work ; or, again, he will simply
employ the flat enamels, which, I believe, he has
been the first to utilise ; in this way he obtains
ft. • fcs) A W. y n <f
ft--,, . ,/ ' $ 7**" th\ \ f-
FROM AN ETCHING BY EVERT VAN MUYDEN
effects having a quality all their own, combined
with exquisite suppleness and material delicacy.
Together with his own works, M. Lachenal ex-
hibited on this occasion a score or so of articles
by M. Daum, the well-known glass - worker of
Nancy. These consisted of vases, varnished in
various colours, very charming in effect, and per-
fection itself in point of material.
M. Raffaelli issued invitations recently to a little
exhibition of his etchings in colours—twenty-four
in number—at the "Art Nouveau." It was quite
an artistic treat to note the originality, the spon-
taneity, and the fresh sincerity of these plates,
wherein we find emphatic evidence of his long-
recognised gifts as a draughtsman. ZJArbrejaune,
La Route aux Grands Arbres, and La Lettre appear
to me the most expressive. They are delightfully
free in style and technique, and display a dexterity
of treatment producing effects of infinite delicacy-
and real power.
As M. Roger Marx justly remarks in the preface.
283