DOI Heft:
No. 97 (April, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Pantini, Romualdo: Some modern Italian artists
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19787#0190
Some Modern Italian Artists
"VILLA LANTE A BAGNAIA " BY ADOLFO DE CAROLIS
exhibited numerous drawings by Giovanni Segantini exactitude of form to his work, should he have so
and Luigi Serra. Of the latter it has been said, desired.
and too often repeated, that he drew for drawing's A very different artist, Filippo Palizzi, of Vasto,
sake; and his insatiability in doing and re-doing who died also in 1899, full of years and honours,
his work certainly at first sight seems to give colour occupied a special place as a draughtsman. He
to the suggestion ; but seeing that Serra was ever devoted himself mainly to the representation of
seeking to realise the outline with absolute accuracy, animal and vegetable forms in all their "intimate"
and to put everything into truest perspective, he simplicity. While examining and analysing reality,
can hardly be blamed on this account for all the he caught its true meaning, and mastered all its
care and labour he bestowed on his productions, difficulties. The numerous small paintings dis-
On the other hand, the drawings of Giovanni played in Rome in a special room at the Galleria
Segantini —unhappily removed from us in the d'Arte Moderna plainly demonstrate his great
height of his fame—attract the attention of the powers as a draughtsman.
spectator by qualities of a kind altogether different I have had the good tortune to examine closely
from those of Serra. His types and scenes interpret many of his pen-and-pencil sketches—some so
reality in another manner entirely. One observes delicate as almost to seem evanescent, others bold
that the lamented artist aimed at giving a very and full of movement. My conclusion is that
complex character to his figures rather than Palizzi, critic and analyst par excellence, expressed
securing their exact representation ; and this himself not less excellently with pen and pencil
character he ever strove to invest with a special than with the brush.
charm of poetry and mystery. Yet he has left us, Having thus rendered homage to three illustrious
together with a large and powerful black-and-white artists of the past, let me speak of some of our
drawing of his picture Alia Stanga, a fairly most distinguished living draughtsmen. Of course,
numerous collection of studies of attitudes, etc., in a brief article such as this it is impossible to
destined to assist him in giving completeness and present anything like a complete picture of the
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"VILLA LANTE A BAGNAIA " BY ADOLFO DE CAROLIS
exhibited numerous drawings by Giovanni Segantini exactitude of form to his work, should he have so
and Luigi Serra. Of the latter it has been said, desired.
and too often repeated, that he drew for drawing's A very different artist, Filippo Palizzi, of Vasto,
sake; and his insatiability in doing and re-doing who died also in 1899, full of years and honours,
his work certainly at first sight seems to give colour occupied a special place as a draughtsman. He
to the suggestion ; but seeing that Serra was ever devoted himself mainly to the representation of
seeking to realise the outline with absolute accuracy, animal and vegetable forms in all their "intimate"
and to put everything into truest perspective, he simplicity. While examining and analysing reality,
can hardly be blamed on this account for all the he caught its true meaning, and mastered all its
care and labour he bestowed on his productions, difficulties. The numerous small paintings dis-
On the other hand, the drawings of Giovanni played in Rome in a special room at the Galleria
Segantini —unhappily removed from us in the d'Arte Moderna plainly demonstrate his great
height of his fame—attract the attention of the powers as a draughtsman.
spectator by qualities of a kind altogether different I have had the good tortune to examine closely
from those of Serra. His types and scenes interpret many of his pen-and-pencil sketches—some so
reality in another manner entirely. One observes delicate as almost to seem evanescent, others bold
that the lamented artist aimed at giving a very and full of movement. My conclusion is that
complex character to his figures rather than Palizzi, critic and analyst par excellence, expressed
securing their exact representation ; and this himself not less excellently with pen and pencil
character he ever strove to invest with a special than with the brush.
charm of poetry and mystery. Yet he has left us, Having thus rendered homage to three illustrious
together with a large and powerful black-and-white artists of the past, let me speak of some of our
drawing of his picture Alia Stanga, a fairly most distinguished living draughtsmen. Of course,
numerous collection of studies of attitudes, etc., in a brief article such as this it is impossible to
destined to assist him in giving completeness and present anything like a complete picture of the
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