Studio: international art (31.1904)

Carlos Grethe

joyless greys and browns
of our matter - of - fact
clothing and our factory
atmosphere, which envelop
present - day life in a
garb of unprepossessing
dulness are, here and
there, piquantly en-
livened by a bright patch
of colour.

There is always one
\ great danger lying in wait

for an artist who grows
especially interested in one
particular phase of human
life. He makes too
much of a study of
it, he become as specialist,
a professional, as it
were, with regard to the

"STUDY OF RIGGING" BY CARLOS GRETHE actuaj Qf ^

and he has lost thereby
his common footing with

modern life no less imperiously than it did over the public. He will, perhaps, either not trouble
Claude's quiet, classical stretches of country; about this and produce incomprehensible work,
how the mist softens all individual detail into or he will wish to establish the common footing
a seductive harmony, or how at other times the again, and thus try to raise the, public up to his

PASSENGER STEAMERS IN HAMBURG HARBOUR FROM A SKETCH BY CARLOS GRETHE