DOI Heft:
Nr. 75 (June 1899)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19232#0064
Studio-Talk
POSTER
BY A LEPERE
handled shadows. By the Sea, a girl seated on
the sands, looking out on the blue placid sea,
gives another rendering of the nude with more
evenly distributed light; each of these pictures
shows successful treatment of flesh colours in full
daylight.
Commendable, also, are the Gleaners and the
Primrose Gatherers; both convince you of the
artist’s full appreciation of delicate, harmonious
colour and composition. Among the landscapes
must be mentioned A Welsh Orchard, another
clever delineation of sunlight upon “ blossom
borne of teeming Springtime,” all atmospheric
and luminous and instinct with feeling for Nature
painted in the open.
The pictures of smaller size are not of less inte-
rest. Sunset and Moonlight, together with some of
the views painted in the valley of the Oise, are de-
lightful examples of Mr. Friswell’s work, full of
infinite variety and subtle gradations of colour.
H. B. B.
PARIS.—At the Figaro salon M. Hector
Guimard, the architect, has been ex-
hibiting various examples of his work,
done “ in a new style,” including archi-
tecture, sculpture, decoration, furniture
and objets d'a?-t; also the complete series of plates
for his work Le Castel Beranger, in which he has
reproduced in sumptuous fashion all the details of
the house of that name, which he has constructed
in the Rue La Fontaine at Auteuil.
I have some difficulty in discussing M. Guimard’s
work, for all the qualities I regard as essential in
these matters—simplicity, clearness and logical
design—appear to me to be altogether absent there-
from. In my opinion his work is laboured, over-
done, and full of violent contrasts. All this may
be “ original ” and “ new ”—for so it is styled—
but for my part I prefer the commonplace methods
to which we are accustomed. If these were the
productions of some ordinary artist, some nobody,
I should have nothing to say; but they are con-
ceived on so large a scale, with so much unity of
purpose, as to constitute a real danger; and protest,
therefore, becomes necessary. The gravest of the
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POSTER
BY A LEPERE
handled shadows. By the Sea, a girl seated on
the sands, looking out on the blue placid sea,
gives another rendering of the nude with more
evenly distributed light; each of these pictures
shows successful treatment of flesh colours in full
daylight.
Commendable, also, are the Gleaners and the
Primrose Gatherers; both convince you of the
artist’s full appreciation of delicate, harmonious
colour and composition. Among the landscapes
must be mentioned A Welsh Orchard, another
clever delineation of sunlight upon “ blossom
borne of teeming Springtime,” all atmospheric
and luminous and instinct with feeling for Nature
painted in the open.
The pictures of smaller size are not of less inte-
rest. Sunset and Moonlight, together with some of
the views painted in the valley of the Oise, are de-
lightful examples of Mr. Friswell’s work, full of
infinite variety and subtle gradations of colour.
H. B. B.
PARIS.—At the Figaro salon M. Hector
Guimard, the architect, has been ex-
hibiting various examples of his work,
done “ in a new style,” including archi-
tecture, sculpture, decoration, furniture
and objets d'a?-t; also the complete series of plates
for his work Le Castel Beranger, in which he has
reproduced in sumptuous fashion all the details of
the house of that name, which he has constructed
in the Rue La Fontaine at Auteuil.
I have some difficulty in discussing M. Guimard’s
work, for all the qualities I regard as essential in
these matters—simplicity, clearness and logical
design—appear to me to be altogether absent there-
from. In my opinion his work is laboured, over-
done, and full of violent contrasts. All this may
be “ original ” and “ new ”—for so it is styled—
but for my part I prefer the commonplace methods
to which we are accustomed. If these were the
productions of some ordinary artist, some nobody,
I should have nothing to say; but they are con-
ceived on so large a scale, with so much unity of
purpose, as to constitute a real danger; and protest,
therefore, becomes necessary. The gravest of the
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