DOI issue:
No. 96 (March, 1901)
DOI article:Baldry, Alfred Lys: The work of J. M. Swan, A.R.A., [1]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19787#0094
/. M. Swan, A.R.A.
THE WORK OF J. M. SWAN, A.R.A. he, with his knowledge and his abilities, come,
(PART I.). BY A. L. BALDRY. see, and conquer in the same way?
After all, this ambition is not a surprising one.
Among the commonest aspirations of The youth, fresh from the triumphs of the art-
the average art student must be reckoned the school, where he has been praised by his fellows
desire to begin his career as an artist as early as as a kind of little god, may be excused for think-
possible in his life, and to impress upon the public ing that he knows everything, and that the highest
by some sensational performance the importance honours in his profession await him directly he
of his advent. He feels that the older champions chooses to stretch out his hand to grasp them,
of the profession have too long engaged the popular Moreover, in the first flush of his enthusiasm,
attention. They hold their places not by right, before that terrifying conviction concerning the
but simply because no one has been bold enough need for deeper study, which comes to the more
to challenge them or strong enough to defeat them, mature mind, has had time to diminish his courage,
But in the consciousness of his own youthful he may quite possibly produce something that is,
strength, he is certain that directly he comes into in its way, of exceptional interest. Such cases are
the arena he will be hailed as the man for whom not uncommon; indeed, many youngsters have
everyone has been waiting, and that the fact of used up the experience acquired during the years
his appearance will suffice to make him the idol of of their school training in the successful accom-
the art world. Other great art workers have, as he plishment of a great work that would have taxed
knows by his study of history, sprung into the the energies and severely tested the powers of men
front rank at a single bound. Why should not with a much more ample equipment. The mere
THE WORK OF J. M. SWAN, A.R.A. he, with his knowledge and his abilities, come,
(PART I.). BY A. L. BALDRY. see, and conquer in the same way?
After all, this ambition is not a surprising one.
Among the commonest aspirations of The youth, fresh from the triumphs of the art-
the average art student must be reckoned the school, where he has been praised by his fellows
desire to begin his career as an artist as early as as a kind of little god, may be excused for think-
possible in his life, and to impress upon the public ing that he knows everything, and that the highest
by some sensational performance the importance honours in his profession await him directly he
of his advent. He feels that the older champions chooses to stretch out his hand to grasp them,
of the profession have too long engaged the popular Moreover, in the first flush of his enthusiasm,
attention. They hold their places not by right, before that terrifying conviction concerning the
but simply because no one has been bold enough need for deeper study, which comes to the more
to challenge them or strong enough to defeat them, mature mind, has had time to diminish his courage,
But in the consciousness of his own youthful he may quite possibly produce something that is,
strength, he is certain that directly he comes into in its way, of exceptional interest. Such cases are
the arena he will be hailed as the man for whom not uncommon; indeed, many youngsters have
everyone has been waiting, and that the fact of used up the experience acquired during the years
his appearance will suffice to make him the idol of of their school training in the successful accom-
the art world. Other great art workers have, as he plishment of a great work that would have taxed
knows by his study of history, sprung into the the energies and severely tested the powers of men
front rank at a single bound. Why should not with a much more ample equipment. The mere