DOI issue:
No. 98 (May, 1901)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19787#0317
Studio- Talk
LANDSCAPE BY JOSE WEISS
(By permission of Messrs. Boussod, Valadou & Co.)
work to the slightest jottings, to mere notes of the Barbizon masters, and especially of Daubigny,
ideas rather than detailed diagrams of what he. whose methods in landscape painting have a
intended later on to translate into paint. There- certain kinsmanship with those of Mr. J. S. Sargent
fore the show of "Pictures, Drawings, and Studies in portraiture. It seems to Mr. Weiss that the
for Pictures," recently opened at the gallery of the simple old methods of the Barbizon men are much
Fine Art Society must not be judged as a sounder and fresher than most of the ways of work
revelation of the preliminary stages by which his which are now being tried by landscape painters,
works were built up. These studies claim attention He has a strong belief in the need of composition
more as the spontaneous jottings used by a great and construction, and his work, always frank and
painter to fix some idea that passed through his manly, is correct in value, fresh with air, and good
mind, and to prevent a thought capable of in tone and colour. His first real success was
development from being forgotten. Considered gained at the Paris Salon in 1899, when a picture
from this point of view they have the greatest entitled "February" was very well received. Since
significance, and even what seems at first sight to then his progress has been steady; and we hope
be incoherence in them becomes instructive. As that success will not tempt him either to paint too
the Exhibition included also many of his childish much or to make himself the slave of a few popular
efforts and two or three well-known early pictures, subjects. Mr. Weiss now lives in Sussex, near
it had a definite historical value, as well as a high Arundel, in the midst of landscapes that possess a
dc gree of interest to everyone who desires an charming variousness.
insight into a remarkable artistic temperament. -
- We return again in this number to the subject of
Mr. Jose Weiss, whose landscapes are here sporting cups and trophies, giving a couple of new
reproduced, is French by birth and breeding, suggestions. Miss Mary Wilcock, in her model for
but English by naturalisation. It is about eight a yachting trophy, is represented by a design that
years ago since he gave up a life of business and is somewhat heavy, somewhat stunted, but in it she
made his home in England to become an artist, suggests with cleverness the wind and the move-
He had been from childhood a great admirer of ment of waves, and the defects of proportion may
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LANDSCAPE BY JOSE WEISS
(By permission of Messrs. Boussod, Valadou & Co.)
work to the slightest jottings, to mere notes of the Barbizon masters, and especially of Daubigny,
ideas rather than detailed diagrams of what he. whose methods in landscape painting have a
intended later on to translate into paint. There- certain kinsmanship with those of Mr. J. S. Sargent
fore the show of "Pictures, Drawings, and Studies in portraiture. It seems to Mr. Weiss that the
for Pictures," recently opened at the gallery of the simple old methods of the Barbizon men are much
Fine Art Society must not be judged as a sounder and fresher than most of the ways of work
revelation of the preliminary stages by which his which are now being tried by landscape painters,
works were built up. These studies claim attention He has a strong belief in the need of composition
more as the spontaneous jottings used by a great and construction, and his work, always frank and
painter to fix some idea that passed through his manly, is correct in value, fresh with air, and good
mind, and to prevent a thought capable of in tone and colour. His first real success was
development from being forgotten. Considered gained at the Paris Salon in 1899, when a picture
from this point of view they have the greatest entitled "February" was very well received. Since
significance, and even what seems at first sight to then his progress has been steady; and we hope
be incoherence in them becomes instructive. As that success will not tempt him either to paint too
the Exhibition included also many of his childish much or to make himself the slave of a few popular
efforts and two or three well-known early pictures, subjects. Mr. Weiss now lives in Sussex, near
it had a definite historical value, as well as a high Arundel, in the midst of landscapes that possess a
dc gree of interest to everyone who desires an charming variousness.
insight into a remarkable artistic temperament. -
- We return again in this number to the subject of
Mr. Jose Weiss, whose landscapes are here sporting cups and trophies, giving a couple of new
reproduced, is French by birth and breeding, suggestions. Miss Mary Wilcock, in her model for
but English by naturalisation. It is about eight a yachting trophy, is represented by a design that
years ago since he gave up a life of business and is somewhat heavy, somewhat stunted, but in it she
made his home in England to become an artist, suggests with cleverness the wind and the move-
He had been from childhood a great admirer of ment of waves, and the defects of proportion may
279 ,