DOI Heft:
No. 82 (January, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0319
Studio- Talk
feature of the year's art. A water-colour by Frank thousand years ago visited the banks of the Neva,
Brangwyn, lent by Mr. Longstaff, created interest. where St. Petersburg now stands, and worked
- their way by river and lake from Novgorod to
Mr. Julian Ashton in Dawn shows a young Byzantium—the cradle of the Greek Church,
woman upon whom falls the dawning light on the Their picturesque boats and armour, their bows
borderland of maturity. The wealth of colour in and arrows, are much more attractive to his mind's
the handling is rather overdone, yet the originality eye than the suburban villas and vulgar actual
of the conception, and the clever way in which the existence on the shores of the Gulf of Finland,
limbs are foreshortened, command admiration, and _
the picture as a whole is an advance on Mr. Ashton's _■.„ . . . ...... :T , ,
. rr Mr. Rohrich recently visited old Novgorod, and
previous efforts. , . . . . , ,
he is now protesting against the cheap and nasty
* "vt i Tii- , , ■, , fashion in which the ancient church of St. Sophia
Mr. Nelson lllingsworth has earned much dis- ... , „ • t- ^, j
, ,., .. ..... , , ,. , is being "renovated. 1 he paintings on the sacred
tinction at the exhibitions with his cleverly modelled
bust of Cardinal Moran. The pose of the head is
delightfully characteristic, and the texture of the
walls are being executed by common workmen
instead of by men of talent. Rohrich observes,
... , , that if John Ruskin had heard of this barbarous
skin remarkably vivid. Mr. lHrank Mahony is , , , , . . .
, . .... , - . , , proceeding, he would have written about it on
always interesting m his study of equine moods, and \. ^ ^ °^
his recent work entitled Indifferent Neighbours, is aC 6 ^G PaPer'
exceptionally good. Excellent also is Mr. A.
Hanson's Unmoored Cloud-Galleons. 1 The inhabitants of Novgorod scarcely know
G. T.K ' their ancient churches, and the local museum is
frequented by travellers only. The inside of the
ST. PETERSBURG.—Mr. Rohrich fs an Cathedral of the Holy Cross is painted here and
archaeologist and a painter who conjures there in vulgar imitation of marble, like a shop
up in his artistic mind the life of ancient front, while portions of the wall are still adorned
Russia, and reproduces its scenes on with ancient sacred pictures. St. Saviour's Church
canvas. He travels in imagination with conveys the most complete impression of the holy
the enterprising Norman Vikings, who more than a edifices at Novgorod. It has been described by
'THE CROSSING, HUNTER RIVER, N.S.VV."
29O
BY W. LISTER-LISTER.
feature of the year's art. A water-colour by Frank thousand years ago visited the banks of the Neva,
Brangwyn, lent by Mr. Longstaff, created interest. where St. Petersburg now stands, and worked
- their way by river and lake from Novgorod to
Mr. Julian Ashton in Dawn shows a young Byzantium—the cradle of the Greek Church,
woman upon whom falls the dawning light on the Their picturesque boats and armour, their bows
borderland of maturity. The wealth of colour in and arrows, are much more attractive to his mind's
the handling is rather overdone, yet the originality eye than the suburban villas and vulgar actual
of the conception, and the clever way in which the existence on the shores of the Gulf of Finland,
limbs are foreshortened, command admiration, and _
the picture as a whole is an advance on Mr. Ashton's _■.„ . . . ...... :T , ,
. rr Mr. Rohrich recently visited old Novgorod, and
previous efforts. , . . . . , ,
he is now protesting against the cheap and nasty
* "vt i Tii- , , ■, , fashion in which the ancient church of St. Sophia
Mr. Nelson lllingsworth has earned much dis- ... , „ • t- ^, j
, ,., .. ..... , , ,. , is being "renovated. 1 he paintings on the sacred
tinction at the exhibitions with his cleverly modelled
bust of Cardinal Moran. The pose of the head is
delightfully characteristic, and the texture of the
walls are being executed by common workmen
instead of by men of talent. Rohrich observes,
... , , that if John Ruskin had heard of this barbarous
skin remarkably vivid. Mr. lHrank Mahony is , , , , . . .
, . .... , - . , , proceeding, he would have written about it on
always interesting m his study of equine moods, and \. ^ ^ °^
his recent work entitled Indifferent Neighbours, is aC 6 ^G PaPer'
exceptionally good. Excellent also is Mr. A.
Hanson's Unmoored Cloud-Galleons. 1 The inhabitants of Novgorod scarcely know
G. T.K ' their ancient churches, and the local museum is
frequented by travellers only. The inside of the
ST. PETERSBURG.—Mr. Rohrich fs an Cathedral of the Holy Cross is painted here and
archaeologist and a painter who conjures there in vulgar imitation of marble, like a shop
up in his artistic mind the life of ancient front, while portions of the wall are still adorned
Russia, and reproduces its scenes on with ancient sacred pictures. St. Saviour's Church
canvas. He travels in imagination with conveys the most complete impression of the holy
the enterprising Norman Vikings, who more than a edifices at Novgorod. It has been described by
'THE CROSSING, HUNTER RIVER, N.S.VV."
29O
BY W. LISTER-LISTER.