DOI Heft:
Nr. 102 (Septembre 1901)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19788#0303
Studio- Talk
years in the artistic quality of earthenware, not
only in those varieties which depend for their
beauty upon the selection and management of the
glazes, but also in those decorated by ornamental
patterns. The selection exhibited is not sufficiently
extensive to do justice to the great advance which
has been made, but it is interesting enough to
merit especial attention.
The handsome casket in bronze, silver, enamel,
and precious stones, designed and executed by
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Dawson, which is illustrated
on page 271, is to be presented by the Cor-
poration of Capetown to Major-General R. S. S.
Baden-Powell.
Landscape painters have many kinds of stupidity
to contend against. The popular notion that a
painted landscape ought to represent " a real scene
or place," and be topographically accurate, is one
kind, and it has kept many a painter of imagination
from winning his merited reward of success. It
has certainly been unkind to Mr. F. F. Foottet,
whose unfamiliar phases of poetic thought in
landscape art are not appreciated as they ought to
be, in spite of their claims on all who take delight in
originality. Mr. Foottet's pictures are at times as
remarkable for their eeriness as the landscapes
described by Edgar Poe; while at other times
their impressionism is truly decorative in its large
suggestions of design. The danger that Mr. Foottet
has to avoid is a tendency to rely overmuch on
mysterious effects of colour, and to place in-
sufficient value on well-observed drawing. This
tendency may be seen in the illustration that is
given here of a picture entitled Twilight, which
would lose none of its uncommon merit if the
trees gripped the earth in a natural way.
Though a new-comer in the ranks of the etchers,
Miss Bauerle already deserves note for the clever-
ness with which she makes use of her difficult
medium. The Goblin Market has abundant fancy,
and a playful grace and sympathy give a charming
interest to her idyll of childhood, When the World
was Young.
"TWILIGHT "
BY F. F. FOOTTET
years in the artistic quality of earthenware, not
only in those varieties which depend for their
beauty upon the selection and management of the
glazes, but also in those decorated by ornamental
patterns. The selection exhibited is not sufficiently
extensive to do justice to the great advance which
has been made, but it is interesting enough to
merit especial attention.
The handsome casket in bronze, silver, enamel,
and precious stones, designed and executed by
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Dawson, which is illustrated
on page 271, is to be presented by the Cor-
poration of Capetown to Major-General R. S. S.
Baden-Powell.
Landscape painters have many kinds of stupidity
to contend against. The popular notion that a
painted landscape ought to represent " a real scene
or place," and be topographically accurate, is one
kind, and it has kept many a painter of imagination
from winning his merited reward of success. It
has certainly been unkind to Mr. F. F. Foottet,
whose unfamiliar phases of poetic thought in
landscape art are not appreciated as they ought to
be, in spite of their claims on all who take delight in
originality. Mr. Foottet's pictures are at times as
remarkable for their eeriness as the landscapes
described by Edgar Poe; while at other times
their impressionism is truly decorative in its large
suggestions of design. The danger that Mr. Foottet
has to avoid is a tendency to rely overmuch on
mysterious effects of colour, and to place in-
sufficient value on well-observed drawing. This
tendency may be seen in the illustration that is
given here of a picture entitled Twilight, which
would lose none of its uncommon merit if the
trees gripped the earth in a natural way.
Though a new-comer in the ranks of the etchers,
Miss Bauerle already deserves note for the clever-
ness with which she makes use of her difficult
medium. The Goblin Market has abundant fancy,
and a playful grace and sympathy give a charming
interest to her idyll of childhood, When the World
was Young.
"TWILIGHT "
BY F. F. FOOTTET