DOI Heft:
No. 90 (September, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Wood, Esther: The national competition, 1900
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19785#0288
The National Coinpetitiun, 1900
straint. The study of a
man's head in oils by
W. R. S. Stott (South
Kensington) gives excel-
lent promise in por-
traiture. The modelled
ornament is, for the most
part, tedious and florid,
but there are some ad-
mirable plaster bas-
reliefs from nature. The
Sunflower by Ormond
E. Collins (Birmingham)
is the best of this class;
the growing plant is
0 01 DESIGN FOR A STENCILLED NURSERY FRIEZE BY LEONARD SPENCER
boldly modelled, and the
unconventional back -
view of the blossom is wonderfully effective, good modelling in this subject. " Designs based
In contrast to this is the slender and dainty on a flowering plant" always afford an interesting
little Oleander panel by Leonard T. Howells section, and here some very careful and intelligent
(Lydney), in which the severer habit of the work is shown by James Hancox (Keighley), Edith
plant is very happily caught. The studies from A. J. Wright (Battersea), and Beatrice M. Turner
animal life are less successful. The group devoted (South Kensington). Some criticism, however,
to the drawing of birds in an ornamental manner should be made of the insufficient naming of these
does not yield such fresh and original work as might exhibits : we should surely be told the object of the
here be expected, neither is there any specially design—whether to be woven, printed, or wrought
with tools, and in what
material to be executed,
since there is no purpose
served by making it look
good on paper, without
relation to its practical
working out. The designer
must habitually think in
material, and know in-
stinctively that certain
natural forms which yield
delightful textile patterns
may be quite unsuitable
to wood and metal.
Hence the superior value
of that class of exhibits in
which the applied design is
placed side by side with the
working drawings—a rule
which offers the severest
test to the competitors,
but is fulfilled in several
cases with complete suc-
cess. The nearest ap-
proach to failure in
relating the drawn design
and the finished object
DESIGN FOR A WALL-PAPER AND FRIEZE BY J. J. WHITCOMBE OCCUl'S among the
2
S3
straint. The study of a
man's head in oils by
W. R. S. Stott (South
Kensington) gives excel-
lent promise in por-
traiture. The modelled
ornament is, for the most
part, tedious and florid,
but there are some ad-
mirable plaster bas-
reliefs from nature. The
Sunflower by Ormond
E. Collins (Birmingham)
is the best of this class;
the growing plant is
0 01 DESIGN FOR A STENCILLED NURSERY FRIEZE BY LEONARD SPENCER
boldly modelled, and the
unconventional back -
view of the blossom is wonderfully effective, good modelling in this subject. " Designs based
In contrast to this is the slender and dainty on a flowering plant" always afford an interesting
little Oleander panel by Leonard T. Howells section, and here some very careful and intelligent
(Lydney), in which the severer habit of the work is shown by James Hancox (Keighley), Edith
plant is very happily caught. The studies from A. J. Wright (Battersea), and Beatrice M. Turner
animal life are less successful. The group devoted (South Kensington). Some criticism, however,
to the drawing of birds in an ornamental manner should be made of the insufficient naming of these
does not yield such fresh and original work as might exhibits : we should surely be told the object of the
here be expected, neither is there any specially design—whether to be woven, printed, or wrought
with tools, and in what
material to be executed,
since there is no purpose
served by making it look
good on paper, without
relation to its practical
working out. The designer
must habitually think in
material, and know in-
stinctively that certain
natural forms which yield
delightful textile patterns
may be quite unsuitable
to wood and metal.
Hence the superior value
of that class of exhibits in
which the applied design is
placed side by side with the
working drawings—a rule
which offers the severest
test to the competitors,
but is fulfilled in several
cases with complete suc-
cess. The nearest ap-
proach to failure in
relating the drawn design
and the finished object
DESIGN FOR A WALL-PAPER AND FRIEZE BY J. J. WHITCOMBE OCCUl'S among the
2
S3