DOI Heft:
No. 81 (December, 1899)
DOI Artikel:British decorative art in 1899, and the Arts And Crafts Exhibition, [3]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0206
Arts and Crafts
beginning with the cartoon for a stained-glass
window erected in memory of a doctor and his
wife and son. The design consists of two
stages. In the lower part of the composition
the artist links the present with the remote
past, by showing that a physician of to-day
ministers as faithfully to the sick as St. Luke
ministered to St. Paul. We have nothing here
that is conventional. The whole design, from
the angels to the doctor, is indeed sufficiently
realistic to be in absolute antagonism with the
kind of treatment that is generally deemed
most suitable for a memorial window. For this
reason, and no other, the cartoon has been
severely criticised. Some have said that the
angels are much too human, much too girlish;
others have found a hopeless incongruity in the
lower part of the composition; and all this
implies that a man of genius should not be
by wickham jarvis
Mr. Reynolds-Stephens's new productions. We
have in mind, for example, the statuette of i
Launcelot and the Nestling, the strong warrior BF^i
with the baby in his arms, that attracted so
much attention in the spring at Burlington
House. Here fine technique goes hand in j
hand with a very gracious inspiration. It is a > ;
masterly little work that charms everybody, so
attractive is the expression of the knight's face I ! H ' 1 ■'
—an expression of wondering curiosity beauti- ■. '■■
fied with a half smile of paternal solicitude. If 1 ,
the statuette represented a woman's love for !
children, it would be less remarkable than it is, I —■
for the poetry of that love has long been one of
the most familiar commonplaces in art.
More might be written about this little statue,
but it is time to pass on to the illustrated chair designed uy wickham jarvis
examples of Mr. Reynolds-Stephens's work, executed by a. Stephens
183
beginning with the cartoon for a stained-glass
window erected in memory of a doctor and his
wife and son. The design consists of two
stages. In the lower part of the composition
the artist links the present with the remote
past, by showing that a physician of to-day
ministers as faithfully to the sick as St. Luke
ministered to St. Paul. We have nothing here
that is conventional. The whole design, from
the angels to the doctor, is indeed sufficiently
realistic to be in absolute antagonism with the
kind of treatment that is generally deemed
most suitable for a memorial window. For this
reason, and no other, the cartoon has been
severely criticised. Some have said that the
angels are much too human, much too girlish;
others have found a hopeless incongruity in the
lower part of the composition; and all this
implies that a man of genius should not be
by wickham jarvis
Mr. Reynolds-Stephens's new productions. We
have in mind, for example, the statuette of i
Launcelot and the Nestling, the strong warrior BF^i
with the baby in his arms, that attracted so
much attention in the spring at Burlington
House. Here fine technique goes hand in j
hand with a very gracious inspiration. It is a > ;
masterly little work that charms everybody, so
attractive is the expression of the knight's face I ! H ' 1 ■'
—an expression of wondering curiosity beauti- ■. '■■
fied with a half smile of paternal solicitude. If 1 ,
the statuette represented a woman's love for !
children, it would be less remarkable than it is, I —■
for the poetry of that love has long been one of
the most familiar commonplaces in art.
More might be written about this little statue,
but it is time to pass on to the illustrated chair designed uy wickham jarvis
examples of Mr. Reynolds-Stephens's work, executed by a. Stephens
183