DOI issue:
No. 130 (January, 1904)
DOI article:West, W. K.: Recent works by Mr. Reynolds-Stephens
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19880#0316
Recent JVorks by IV. Reynolds-Stephens
executive side of his profession with endless
care. Constant experiment, minute testing of
every conclusion, unflagging energy in the
pursuit of information on details of procedure,
have been from the first the means by which he
has equipped himself. There has been no leav-
ing of things to chance in the hope that at the
right moment he might find the way out ot a
difficulty) he has gone on the principle that
only by exhaustive preparation could the possi-
bility of failure be avoided.
If, for instance, the two examples of decorative
sculpture—Love's Coronetand Castles in the Air—
" CASTLES IN THE AIR " BY W. REYNOLDS-STEPHENS
(By permission of the Artist, who ?'eserves copyright)
"CASTLES IN THE AIR" BY W. REYNOLDS-STEPHENS
(By permission of the Artist, who reserves copyright)
which he has recently produced, are analysed, the
significance of his method will be readily under-
stood. In these works he has carried further the
technical principles which guided him when he
conceived and executed his exquisite statuettes of
Lancelot and Guinevere. There is apparent the
same desire to use his design as a basis for orna-
mentation which would, without destroying the
purity of the artistic motive, increase the decorative
value of the work as a whole. There is the same
ingenious perception of the possibility of uniting in
one and the same object a number of materials, and
of welding them all by judicious combination into
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executive side of his profession with endless
care. Constant experiment, minute testing of
every conclusion, unflagging energy in the
pursuit of information on details of procedure,
have been from the first the means by which he
has equipped himself. There has been no leav-
ing of things to chance in the hope that at the
right moment he might find the way out ot a
difficulty) he has gone on the principle that
only by exhaustive preparation could the possi-
bility of failure be avoided.
If, for instance, the two examples of decorative
sculpture—Love's Coronetand Castles in the Air—
" CASTLES IN THE AIR " BY W. REYNOLDS-STEPHENS
(By permission of the Artist, who ?'eserves copyright)
"CASTLES IN THE AIR" BY W. REYNOLDS-STEPHENS
(By permission of the Artist, who reserves copyright)
which he has recently produced, are analysed, the
significance of his method will be readily under-
stood. In these works he has carried further the
technical principles which guided him when he
conceived and executed his exquisite statuettes of
Lancelot and Guinevere. There is apparent the
same desire to use his design as a basis for orna-
mentation which would, without destroying the
purity of the artistic motive, increase the decorative
value of the work as a whole. There is the same
ingenious perception of the possibility of uniting in
one and the same object a number of materials, and
of welding them all by judicious combination into
299