DOI Heft:
No. 104 (November, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Sickert, Oswald: The International Society
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19874#0134
The International Society
It is true that Mr. Whistler, as is his custom, Indeed, in reviewing the pictures of the painters
protests directly in words as well as in paint. In who have exhibited here, the spectator is most
the pages of the catalogue he champions, not on struck by the complacency, the positive and pleased
his own behalf, but in connection with the work of assurance, with which they have accepted some
two pupils, " the
low in tone," the
"grey," the "quiet
in colour," which ......,.,....., . ..
, j ... ■;■ all masters, they
was once found % .
so vexatious in his
one sees how little
it matters. Of
more or less ad-
vanced form of
technical rude-
ness. They are
have all arrived.
You may see a
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ' at an end after a
shorter beginning.
k;^ W°.rk ^m"^ ' + Pf The ability of the
one
out to be rather
i • ' . 1 ' . , 'j • *s ■ i X lie auiiii* "
nis two appren- I !'»'• '- W ' "-fkr . •
, . rv , 'r . f \ one has turned
fees, it is to be
said that the little
u,, ' ^ . adaptability, and
doorways and I he has spent the
shop-fronts are years during
which he has
very exquisite turned out pic-
thing—the little tures which, cer-
doorways and IHIHHBBHBH^^^^^^^^^^^^ tainly, we would
shop-fronts of „ liy . mcnbill whistlbr rather have seen
the master. "the neighbours than not, in listen-
Whether this ing to the echoes
close repetition, of other voices
not merely of a rather than in developing a voice of his own ; the
method, but of one particular story amone ^ ^ ^ ^ & mQK elementary stage
many that genius found to tell, is a goo ^ way that leads out from the schools with
beginning—on the question, namely, that m ^ ^ ^ ^ circumstance of a traveller who is
calls for an answer, who will venture a JUQ^me And the spectator, in his inno-
at a time when apprenticeship is unfatmlia g g that the on6i with his
and all doctrine is up by the roots As ce P ^ ^ considerable
for the pupils> portraitS) La Rue Fleur and abihtv be satisfied, at this
Monsuur k Massier, they have at least one_dts- picturesbe , ^ ^ &
unction over the othercanvasesinthegaller.es. hour, to v f
what is incompetent in them has, after^ patience waU ^ ^ the other>
and striving, modestly been left to ^*~™Z> who l as left on the canvas not a sign of that
pe ent I doubt hether there is anoth* square ^ q[ ^
inch of confessed incompetence to be tounu ui
the walls. advanCe-
It is true that Mr. Whistler, as is his custom, Indeed, in reviewing the pictures of the painters
protests directly in words as well as in paint. In who have exhibited here, the spectator is most
the pages of the catalogue he champions, not on struck by the complacency, the positive and pleased
his own behalf, but in connection with the work of assurance, with which they have accepted some
two pupils, " the
low in tone," the
"grey," the "quiet
in colour," which ......,.,....., . ..
, j ... ■;■ all masters, they
was once found % .
so vexatious in his
one sees how little
it matters. Of
more or less ad-
vanced form of
technical rude-
ness. They are
have all arrived.
You may see a
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ' at an end after a
shorter beginning.
k;^ W°.rk ^m"^ ' + Pf The ability of the
one
out to be rather
i • ' . 1 ' . , 'j • *s ■ i X lie auiiii* "
nis two appren- I !'»'• '- W ' "-fkr . •
, . rv , 'r . f \ one has turned
fees, it is to be
said that the little
u,, ' ^ . adaptability, and
doorways and I he has spent the
shop-fronts are years during
which he has
very exquisite turned out pic-
thing—the little tures which, cer-
doorways and IHIHHBBHBH^^^^^^^^^^^^ tainly, we would
shop-fronts of „ liy . mcnbill whistlbr rather have seen
the master. "the neighbours than not, in listen-
Whether this ing to the echoes
close repetition, of other voices
not merely of a rather than in developing a voice of his own ; the
method, but of one particular story amone ^ ^ ^ ^ & mQK elementary stage
many that genius found to tell, is a goo ^ way that leads out from the schools with
beginning—on the question, namely, that m ^ ^ ^ ^ circumstance of a traveller who is
calls for an answer, who will venture a JUQ^me And the spectator, in his inno-
at a time when apprenticeship is unfatmlia g g that the on6i with his
and all doctrine is up by the roots As ce P ^ ^ considerable
for the pupils> portraitS) La Rue Fleur and abihtv be satisfied, at this
Monsuur k Massier, they have at least one_dts- picturesbe , ^ ^ &
unction over the othercanvasesinthegaller.es. hour, to v f
what is incompetent in them has, after^ patience waU ^ ^ the other>
and striving, modestly been left to ^*~™Z> who l as left on the canvas not a sign of that
pe ent I doubt hether there is anoth* square ^ q[ ^
inch of confessed incompetence to be tounu ui
the walls. advanCe-