DOI Heft:
No. 80 (November, 1899)
DOI Artikel:British decorative art in 1899, and the Arts And Crafts Exhibition, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0130
Arts and Crafts
will be as true to himself in decoration as he has
ever been in his bold, free art as a painter. He
recently brought to completion a room for which he
designed everything, and the illustrations represent
some of his achievements in the same line. The
two sketches for painted panels tell their own simple
tale with masterly ease and skill, and the screen is
really a screen, and not three paintings framed in
wood. The colour is Mr. Brangwyn's own, inde-
scribably peculiar and attractive, strong, deep, and
—if one may employ the word—retiring. The
flowers are put in with a wise suggestiveness of
touch which an impressionist would envy, and
the dashing realism is everywhere sweetened and
subdued by a very tender love for the poetry of
nature.
In The Studio, some months ago, attention was
drawn to Mr. Brangwyn's admirable skill as a de-
signer for stained glass, and it is impossible not to
regret that this phase of his industry is not repre-
sented at all in the Arts and Crafts Exhibition.
We venture to think that a Society which aims at
encouraging the best decorative art in this country,
ought really to take pains to obtain specimens of
all the finest work produced by the ablest men ;
and we think that the Arts and Crafts Exhibition
would be far more interesting than it is if it con-
tained some examples of Mr. Brangwyn's stained
glass and also ot the carpets which have recently
been manufactured abroad from his designs.
When it is remembered that from October 1898
to the close of the school year in July last Mr.
Walter Crane, President of the Arts and Crafts
Society, filled the responsible post of Principal of
the Royal College of Art at South Kensington,
and, moreover, that he took a most active part in
the production of the Masque at the Guildhall,
exploits which together might well have employed
the whole of his energies for at least a twelve-
month, it is wonderful how much of recent handi-
work he has been able to show, and that not in
one or two departments, but in many, in no case
SCREEN PAINTED IN OILS
i ro
BY FRANK BRANGWYN
will be as true to himself in decoration as he has
ever been in his bold, free art as a painter. He
recently brought to completion a room for which he
designed everything, and the illustrations represent
some of his achievements in the same line. The
two sketches for painted panels tell their own simple
tale with masterly ease and skill, and the screen is
really a screen, and not three paintings framed in
wood. The colour is Mr. Brangwyn's own, inde-
scribably peculiar and attractive, strong, deep, and
—if one may employ the word—retiring. The
flowers are put in with a wise suggestiveness of
touch which an impressionist would envy, and
the dashing realism is everywhere sweetened and
subdued by a very tender love for the poetry of
nature.
In The Studio, some months ago, attention was
drawn to Mr. Brangwyn's admirable skill as a de-
signer for stained glass, and it is impossible not to
regret that this phase of his industry is not repre-
sented at all in the Arts and Crafts Exhibition.
We venture to think that a Society which aims at
encouraging the best decorative art in this country,
ought really to take pains to obtain specimens of
all the finest work produced by the ablest men ;
and we think that the Arts and Crafts Exhibition
would be far more interesting than it is if it con-
tained some examples of Mr. Brangwyn's stained
glass and also ot the carpets which have recently
been manufactured abroad from his designs.
When it is remembered that from October 1898
to the close of the school year in July last Mr.
Walter Crane, President of the Arts and Crafts
Society, filled the responsible post of Principal of
the Royal College of Art at South Kensington,
and, moreover, that he took a most active part in
the production of the Masque at the Guildhall,
exploits which together might well have employed
the whole of his energies for at least a twelve-
month, it is wonderful how much of recent handi-
work he has been able to show, and that not in
one or two departments, but in many, in no case
SCREEN PAINTED IN OILS
i ro
BY FRANK BRANGWYN