DOI Heft:
No. 137 (August, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19882#0263
Studio-Talk
hundred and fifty pictures and drawings by Professor
Giovanni Costa, the artist whose death not long
ago robbed the modern Italian School of one of its
chief masters. With Segantini, Costa may fairly be
said to have done much to restore to Italian art
some of the independence and strength which had
been sacrificed a quarter of a century or more ago,
when the painters of that country almost unani-
mously sank their individuality in slavish imitation
of Fortuny. What Costa did was to take the old
tradition of classic landscape and to deal with it
thoughtfully and sincerely by the light of nature
study. How ably he combined the decorative
principles of his great predecessors with all neces-
sary realism this exhibition showed convincingly.
It was full of fine paintings, soundly designed and
admirable in their poetic suggestion, and yet per-
fectly accurate as sensitive records of nature.
tPBBK —»uJ|B Mr. Raven-Hill's " Punch " drawings, recently
/ " collected in the Leicester Galleries, made a fas
__________...
■'"'"^lISEHiBME&fes. diluting display of the quaint humour and sound
I flwl V^B technical methods which have enabled him to take
I JBWfl' ^■■S among humorous draughtsmen a place second
only to Charles Keene. Of living illustrators Mr.
Raven-Hill is certainly the best in his treatment of
broad character and low-life types. He handles
^nwSfiiii^riTTii ~ - yt^Kj^j^aE^BHI his subjects with freshness and spontaneity, and he
never oversteps the dividing line between legitimate
INKSTAND BY HUGO LEVEN ... , . , , ...
(See article on Diis<eldorf Exhibition) comicality and caricature ; and above all he never
forgets that beauty of executive style is just as pos-
sible in humorous illustration as in more serious
Sandys, who in years past was an enlightened and work. In the same galleries, Mr. W. Lee-Hankey
able supporter of the Pre-Raphaelite creed. It has been showing some Idylls of the Country—
cannot be said that his
work is well known to the
present generation, because
latterly he exhibited
little; but everyone who
has followed the develop-
ment of British art during
the nineteenth century
has been impressed by
his rare skill as a draughts-
man and his remarkable
originality.
An exhibition of much
more than ordinary import-
ance was opened at the be-
ginning of July in the Gallery
of the Royal Society of
Painters in Water Colours. „ KV „„rn . „v_v
p. PUPPY Hugo i.EVErs
It included more than a (See article on Diisseldorf Exhibition)
239
hundred and fifty pictures and drawings by Professor
Giovanni Costa, the artist whose death not long
ago robbed the modern Italian School of one of its
chief masters. With Segantini, Costa may fairly be
said to have done much to restore to Italian art
some of the independence and strength which had
been sacrificed a quarter of a century or more ago,
when the painters of that country almost unani-
mously sank their individuality in slavish imitation
of Fortuny. What Costa did was to take the old
tradition of classic landscape and to deal with it
thoughtfully and sincerely by the light of nature
study. How ably he combined the decorative
principles of his great predecessors with all neces-
sary realism this exhibition showed convincingly.
It was full of fine paintings, soundly designed and
admirable in their poetic suggestion, and yet per-
fectly accurate as sensitive records of nature.
tPBBK —»uJ|B Mr. Raven-Hill's " Punch " drawings, recently
/ " collected in the Leicester Galleries, made a fas
__________...
■'"'"^lISEHiBME&fes. diluting display of the quaint humour and sound
I flwl V^B technical methods which have enabled him to take
I JBWfl' ^■■S among humorous draughtsmen a place second
only to Charles Keene. Of living illustrators Mr.
Raven-Hill is certainly the best in his treatment of
broad character and low-life types. He handles
^nwSfiiii^riTTii ~ - yt^Kj^j^aE^BHI his subjects with freshness and spontaneity, and he
never oversteps the dividing line between legitimate
INKSTAND BY HUGO LEVEN ... , . , , ...
(See article on Diis<eldorf Exhibition) comicality and caricature ; and above all he never
forgets that beauty of executive style is just as pos-
sible in humorous illustration as in more serious
Sandys, who in years past was an enlightened and work. In the same galleries, Mr. W. Lee-Hankey
able supporter of the Pre-Raphaelite creed. It has been showing some Idylls of the Country—
cannot be said that his
work is well known to the
present generation, because
latterly he exhibited
little; but everyone who
has followed the develop-
ment of British art during
the nineteenth century
has been impressed by
his rare skill as a draughts-
man and his remarkable
originality.
An exhibition of much
more than ordinary import-
ance was opened at the be-
ginning of July in the Gallery
of the Royal Society of
Painters in Water Colours. „ KV „„rn . „v_v
p. PUPPY Hugo i.EVErs
It included more than a (See article on Diisseldorf Exhibition)
239