DOI Heft:
Nr. 119 (February 1903)
DOI Artikel:The new solid oil-colours: interview with M. J. F. Raffaëlli
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19878#0037
The New Solid Oil-Colours
NOTRE DAME '
3M THE PICTURE EXECUTED IN THE NEW SOT.ID OII.-CO..OURS BY J. F. RAFFAF-LLI
parency such as liquid oil cannot give; and near of our artists, it would have been necessary to
by these paintings were to be seen some real pastels, condemn it irrevocably as bad and harmful. But
done on pastel paper, and having all the special the result has been the reverse. Never has
qualities of that medium, combined with perma- Besnard, that admirable artist, been more
nency and beauty of colour, and a more beautiful thoroughly Besnard, nor Thaulow more entirely
and richer material. Thaulow. And Cheret has remained Cheret, and
" By means of this simple exhibition the matter Steinlen has revealed himself a superb painter,
was tested and settled. At will one can, with while the others, one and all, have gained something
the same colours, paint oil pictures, fine in by this new process. Carrier-Belleuse has produced
colour and in warmth, or produce permanent pastels warmer, richer, finer in colour than ever;
Pastels in oil on the first scrap of paper at hand ! Re'gamey has done a fresco, Louis Legrand some
Is not that a good result ? illuminations, Whalberg several charming land-
Yes, I say it again : the thirty artists who dis- scapes, the Abbe Van Hollebecke some strong
P'ayed their paintings at Durand-Ruel's showed and highly-finished paintings, and Cesbrom some
b th* remarkable variety of work can be achieved delightfully fresh flowers.
v Jhese little sticks of colour. " People assured me that the result would be
artist n°tller point of interest_not one of these disastrous in an exhibition, because it would show
style Sh°Wed any falling off in regard to personal that each exhibitor had lost a little of his personality.
has lndividuality. On the contrary, each Well, the exhibition has been held, and even the
fact of ^ en,arSed his own manner. That is a most obstinate have been obliged to admit that
of Painting 'mPortance, for if this new mode every one of the artists represented gained in
g ad tended to mar the personality respect of lvs personality, instead of losing it."
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NOTRE DAME '
3M THE PICTURE EXECUTED IN THE NEW SOT.ID OII.-CO..OURS BY J. F. RAFFAF-LLI
parency such as liquid oil cannot give; and near of our artists, it would have been necessary to
by these paintings were to be seen some real pastels, condemn it irrevocably as bad and harmful. But
done on pastel paper, and having all the special the result has been the reverse. Never has
qualities of that medium, combined with perma- Besnard, that admirable artist, been more
nency and beauty of colour, and a more beautiful thoroughly Besnard, nor Thaulow more entirely
and richer material. Thaulow. And Cheret has remained Cheret, and
" By means of this simple exhibition the matter Steinlen has revealed himself a superb painter,
was tested and settled. At will one can, with while the others, one and all, have gained something
the same colours, paint oil pictures, fine in by this new process. Carrier-Belleuse has produced
colour and in warmth, or produce permanent pastels warmer, richer, finer in colour than ever;
Pastels in oil on the first scrap of paper at hand ! Re'gamey has done a fresco, Louis Legrand some
Is not that a good result ? illuminations, Whalberg several charming land-
Yes, I say it again : the thirty artists who dis- scapes, the Abbe Van Hollebecke some strong
P'ayed their paintings at Durand-Ruel's showed and highly-finished paintings, and Cesbrom some
b th* remarkable variety of work can be achieved delightfully fresh flowers.
v Jhese little sticks of colour. " People assured me that the result would be
artist n°tller point of interest_not one of these disastrous in an exhibition, because it would show
style Sh°Wed any falling off in regard to personal that each exhibitor had lost a little of his personality.
has lndividuality. On the contrary, each Well, the exhibition has been held, and even the
fact of ^ en,arSed his own manner. That is a most obstinate have been obliged to admit that
of Painting 'mPortance, for if this new mode every one of the artists represented gained in
g ad tended to mar the personality respect of lvs personality, instead of losing it."
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