DOI Heft:
Nr. 102 (Septembre 1901)
DOI Artikel:Glasgow international exhibition, [3]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19788#0269
Glasgow Exhibition
ceptible transference of public patron-
age from the picture maker to whom
formerly it was given almost exclu-
sively, to the decorator and designer
whose right to a place of honour in his
profession is gaining a wider and more
hearty recognition.
The lessened demand for pictorial
productions does not necessarily imply
that art, in the broad sense, has become
less attractive to the public taste, but
simply indicates the growth of a new
and healthy wish to secure something
like consistency in the application of
art to modem life. The widening of
the artistic view is bringing into pro-
minence other ways of turning to
account capacities that have hitherto
been prevented from developing in
the right direction, and is calling into
existence a daily increasing band of
workers whose productions are full of
promise and interest. In every way
this more generous recognition of the
claims of decoration is to be welcomed;
it restores to its right place a form of
art which in bygone centuries was
thought worthy to engage the attention
of the greatest masters, and to afford
noble opportunities to men of the
highest ability. The mediaeval artist
was first and foremost a craftsman
full of adaptability, a practitioner
design for drawing-room mirror by miss l. m. henman
learned in the details of artistic production, and
skilled in the manipulation of different materials;
for him there did not exist the hard and fast line
which for long separated the workers in various
branches of art, and created the wholly fallacious
distinction between artists and craftsmen. A
steadily increasing section of the public is ex-
tending substantial encouragement and support
to the new movement which claims for all artist-
craftsmen an equal footing, and so the art
worker of the present day is obliged to study
more closely the laws of decoration and design in
order to produce articles that will satisfactorily
fulfil a specific purpose of adornment or perma-
nently beautify some chosen place.
The present exhibition of_ Aits and Crafts at
push by arthur penny Glasgow, compared with preceding exhibitions
238
ceptible transference of public patron-
age from the picture maker to whom
formerly it was given almost exclu-
sively, to the decorator and designer
whose right to a place of honour in his
profession is gaining a wider and more
hearty recognition.
The lessened demand for pictorial
productions does not necessarily imply
that art, in the broad sense, has become
less attractive to the public taste, but
simply indicates the growth of a new
and healthy wish to secure something
like consistency in the application of
art to modem life. The widening of
the artistic view is bringing into pro-
minence other ways of turning to
account capacities that have hitherto
been prevented from developing in
the right direction, and is calling into
existence a daily increasing band of
workers whose productions are full of
promise and interest. In every way
this more generous recognition of the
claims of decoration is to be welcomed;
it restores to its right place a form of
art which in bygone centuries was
thought worthy to engage the attention
of the greatest masters, and to afford
noble opportunities to men of the
highest ability. The mediaeval artist
was first and foremost a craftsman
full of adaptability, a practitioner
design for drawing-room mirror by miss l. m. henman
learned in the details of artistic production, and
skilled in the manipulation of different materials;
for him there did not exist the hard and fast line
which for long separated the workers in various
branches of art, and created the wholly fallacious
distinction between artists and craftsmen. A
steadily increasing section of the public is ex-
tending substantial encouragement and support
to the new movement which claims for all artist-
craftsmen an equal footing, and so the art
worker of the present day is obliged to study
more closely the laws of decoration and design in
order to produce articles that will satisfactorily
fulfil a specific purpose of adornment or perma-
nently beautify some chosen place.
The present exhibition of_ Aits and Crafts at
push by arthur penny Glasgow, compared with preceding exhibitions
238