DOI Heft:
No. 136 (July, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19882#0196
Studio-Talk
and he is now able to produce almost
every conceivable shade of colour with
only one firing on a ware of red clay.
He has indeed, succeeded in getting
some shades which remain a puzzle even
to the professional potter. I will only
mention a particular dark blood-red with
the faintest tinge of blue, a shade which
only shows well on a particular under-
painting ; otherwise it tends to blackness.
It has been applied to some vases in a
very effective manner, that is to say,
left to trickle down the sides.
He has also a fine tone of brown,
charming when combined with yellow,
which shows through like a ground of
old gold. Seidler's speciality is painted
pottery, and in Germany, at any rate,
nothing has been done at all to compare
with it. While other makers have aimed
at a distinctive style of their own, Seidler
has, as yet, no particular style. His
"pandora": design for a jewel casket
by mrs. l. wall moore
efforts tend to suiting all tastes in form, colour, and prac-
tical utility. His productions derive their only approach
to individuality from the designs traced on the surface
with a graver. Pieces thus treated are usually coloured
green, and the effect is almost archaically simple. This
is, indeed, the inevitable result of the character of the
treatment as adapted to the material; an artless style of
composition and expression is indispensable. The subjects
—applied, so far, only to ornamental plaques and ewers
—are borrowed from Christian and other legends, or simple
scenes of human life—" Adam and Eve," " the Madonna,"
the " Four Ages of Man," and so forth. H. E. K.
c
HICAGO. — In the line of sculpture, Mrs.
Moore has enjoyed and has appreciated
those distinctive opportunities, so highly prized
by the student of the plastic art. After
pursuing a course under Mr. Taft and Mr. MacNeil at
the Art Institute, she spent one year in Paris, where
she maintained a studio, although during the time she
was not studying under the guidance of any master. A
1 portrait sketch " . . , . , , , .
(Valeria alicia English) commission upon which she is at present engaged is
by mrs. l. wall moore a statue for the corridors of the Fine Arts Building,
172 1
and he is now able to produce almost
every conceivable shade of colour with
only one firing on a ware of red clay.
He has indeed, succeeded in getting
some shades which remain a puzzle even
to the professional potter. I will only
mention a particular dark blood-red with
the faintest tinge of blue, a shade which
only shows well on a particular under-
painting ; otherwise it tends to blackness.
It has been applied to some vases in a
very effective manner, that is to say,
left to trickle down the sides.
He has also a fine tone of brown,
charming when combined with yellow,
which shows through like a ground of
old gold. Seidler's speciality is painted
pottery, and in Germany, at any rate,
nothing has been done at all to compare
with it. While other makers have aimed
at a distinctive style of their own, Seidler
has, as yet, no particular style. His
"pandora": design for a jewel casket
by mrs. l. wall moore
efforts tend to suiting all tastes in form, colour, and prac-
tical utility. His productions derive their only approach
to individuality from the designs traced on the surface
with a graver. Pieces thus treated are usually coloured
green, and the effect is almost archaically simple. This
is, indeed, the inevitable result of the character of the
treatment as adapted to the material; an artless style of
composition and expression is indispensable. The subjects
—applied, so far, only to ornamental plaques and ewers
—are borrowed from Christian and other legends, or simple
scenes of human life—" Adam and Eve," " the Madonna,"
the " Four Ages of Man," and so forth. H. E. K.
c
HICAGO. — In the line of sculpture, Mrs.
Moore has enjoyed and has appreciated
those distinctive opportunities, so highly prized
by the student of the plastic art. After
pursuing a course under Mr. Taft and Mr. MacNeil at
the Art Institute, she spent one year in Paris, where
she maintained a studio, although during the time she
was not studying under the guidance of any master. A
1 portrait sketch " . . , . , , , .
(Valeria alicia English) commission upon which she is at present engaged is
by mrs. l. wall moore a statue for the corridors of the Fine Arts Building,
172 1