DOI Heft:
No. 87 (June, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19785#0067
Studio- Talk
qualities of delicate colour obtained by Mr. Cooper the cause of art, it is mostly left to the youth of
are very pleasing, and it is to be hoped that he Bristol to attempt the regeneration of their elders
will succeed in his effort to make popular once in this direction. Naturally, the result is dis-
more an exquisite material which has been too couraging. Civic bodies are not moved in a
long neglected here in England. moment, nor a town full of busy men in a month;
- but the younger generation perseveres, and steadily
Our age has produced a great many women who turns out useful and artistic work whilst living for
are painters, but very few painters who are women, the while upon its own approval.
The charm of womanliness in art has not been -
appreciated by the gifted fair, so they have wasted The Kensington Government School of Art
their time and impaired their talents by attempting Berkeley Square, is one of the nurseries responsible
to be manly. Here and there a great exception for much of the artistic training carried on in
has been found, like Madame Morisot in France, Bristol, and it was there that a recently-held
and Lady Waterford in England, but the exceptions exhibition of students' work contained amongst
are very few. Among them Mrs. Stanhope Forbes others the designs, etc., here reproduced The
now occupies a leading position, and it is pleasant school itself was founded in 1890 under the
to note that her recent exhibition at the Fine Art direction of Mr. John Fisher, a master whose
Society was deservedly a great success. It com- personality extends to every pupil who passes
prised forty-nine pictures and water-colour drawings, through his hands Mr. Fisher is a clever work
and there was not among them a single false note. man and a winner of many medals but he is
Children, landscapes,
flowers, and other subjects,
like the Basque Interior, ^_
the Shepherd of the ^r^k ^^^1
Pyrenees, and The Bake- 1 ■ ij^m ^^t55^
house, were all excel- |P^2^^™< l^flfe ^i^^S B^KT ^5#l
lent in colour, with a ^^^jfl
tender firmness of touch BBp ■ Wt ^m/ '\^H 1^ ■
in drawing, and with the Iflfr M\ ^$j| HI II \^
distinction that Sin V ll A* I MmYA % Mm
belongs to I j| V lk^> fl ^^Hl ■ II
ness of and of BAw Jfl yifl ■ V ^1 J 1 II I Ifl
observation. I> ™ vl ™^ ^Jk II \ WM
Ba^S/C^l M m MS 1 la
Bristol.-The ItyI St 2n mV'M
child is RjC ^1 v h
to the man. In Hfe^ ^mm Hm9
spite of the la- K_|
one or two older citizens in - •; escutcheons bv
francis e, fulford
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qualities of delicate colour obtained by Mr. Cooper the cause of art, it is mostly left to the youth of
are very pleasing, and it is to be hoped that he Bristol to attempt the regeneration of their elders
will succeed in his effort to make popular once in this direction. Naturally, the result is dis-
more an exquisite material which has been too couraging. Civic bodies are not moved in a
long neglected here in England. moment, nor a town full of busy men in a month;
- but the younger generation perseveres, and steadily
Our age has produced a great many women who turns out useful and artistic work whilst living for
are painters, but very few painters who are women, the while upon its own approval.
The charm of womanliness in art has not been -
appreciated by the gifted fair, so they have wasted The Kensington Government School of Art
their time and impaired their talents by attempting Berkeley Square, is one of the nurseries responsible
to be manly. Here and there a great exception for much of the artistic training carried on in
has been found, like Madame Morisot in France, Bristol, and it was there that a recently-held
and Lady Waterford in England, but the exceptions exhibition of students' work contained amongst
are very few. Among them Mrs. Stanhope Forbes others the designs, etc., here reproduced The
now occupies a leading position, and it is pleasant school itself was founded in 1890 under the
to note that her recent exhibition at the Fine Art direction of Mr. John Fisher, a master whose
Society was deservedly a great success. It com- personality extends to every pupil who passes
prised forty-nine pictures and water-colour drawings, through his hands Mr. Fisher is a clever work
and there was not among them a single false note. man and a winner of many medals but he is
Children, landscapes,
flowers, and other subjects,
like the Basque Interior, ^_
the Shepherd of the ^r^k ^^^1
Pyrenees, and The Bake- 1 ■ ij^m ^^t55^
house, were all excel- |P^2^^™< l^flfe ^i^^S B^KT ^5#l
lent in colour, with a ^^^jfl
tender firmness of touch BBp ■ Wt ^m/ '\^H 1^ ■
in drawing, and with the Iflfr M\ ^$j| HI II \^
distinction that Sin V ll A* I MmYA % Mm
belongs to I j| V lk^> fl ^^Hl ■ II
ness of and of BAw Jfl yifl ■ V ^1 J 1 II I Ifl
observation. I> ™ vl ™^ ^Jk II \ WM
Ba^S/C^l M m MS 1 la
Bristol.-The ItyI St 2n mV'M
child is RjC ^1 v h
to the man. In Hfe^ ^mm Hm9
spite of the la- K_|
one or two older citizens in - •; escutcheons bv
francis e, fulford
49