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Nr. 144 (March 1905)
DOI Artikel:Oliver, Maude I. G.: Belgian art at the St. Louis exhibition
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20711#0166
Belgian Art at St. Louis
was an unpretentious genre subject, feelingly ling on rough grey paper denoted a fresh, intelligent
portrayed. comprehension.
Women Repairing Nets, from the brush of Perhaps no greater indication of the sincere
Edgar Farazyn, was unquestionably a distinguished endeavour in the present renaissance of Belgian
accomplishment. The sure, unerring force of a art can be met with than in her sculpture. In the
master hand has directed this portrayal of a display at St. Louis, a marked variety of intention
humble sea-side occupation. The choice of colour was declared, monumental works, portrait and
has been almost unrelenting in its free selection of ideal subjects having been granted equal import -
untoned green grass and of the vivid red nets ance. One of the most impressive features of the
stained by the colour of the sea-weed. Of the collection was a genre bearing the name of A Man
allegorical subjects shown a triptych depicting of the People, by Constantine Meunier. This is a
Nature was especially noteworthy. This was a bronze head of heroic size, in which the spirit of
contribution by Leon Frederic, and showed an able democratic and socialistic idea has apparently been
painter in his most serious manner. It depicts personified. The sturdy vigour, the resistance
Mother Nature with her four children, the Seasons, against oppression, the indefinite yearning after
personified in the large central panel, the little something more worthy in life—these all have
ones reappearing separately in the smaller divisions. been collected in a single sonnet, which is the
A singular union of the most engaging realism in glorification of the poor in their noblest aspirations,
representation with the subtlest qualities of de- Superb work also was seen in the examples by
corative feeling is observed in this production. Of the deceased master, Paul Devigne. Domenica,
the three canvases consti-
tuting the powerful essay
entitled Triumph of Death,
by August Leveque, the
first section, presenting the
Harvest of the Future, sug-
gests a glimpse of the
storied land of Arcady,
wherein the dwellers are
blithesome, roguish child-
ren. An expression of
naive and sprightly move-
ment is the result. The
three allegories by Leem-
poels may be described as
masterpieces.
Among the water colours
should be mentioned the
two admirable achieve-
ments by Alexandre Mar-
cette entitled respectively
Repairing Boats and De-
parture of the Fisherboats.
Mention should also be
made of the quaint study
by Henry Cassiers called
A Dutch Town.
Then the exquisite treat-
ments, with charcoal ren-
derings of hushed, reposeful
church interiors by Alfred
Delaunois should not be
overlooked, while Staquet's
clever water-colour hand- "beneath the beeches" by franz courtexs
was an unpretentious genre subject, feelingly ling on rough grey paper denoted a fresh, intelligent
portrayed. comprehension.
Women Repairing Nets, from the brush of Perhaps no greater indication of the sincere
Edgar Farazyn, was unquestionably a distinguished endeavour in the present renaissance of Belgian
accomplishment. The sure, unerring force of a art can be met with than in her sculpture. In the
master hand has directed this portrayal of a display at St. Louis, a marked variety of intention
humble sea-side occupation. The choice of colour was declared, monumental works, portrait and
has been almost unrelenting in its free selection of ideal subjects having been granted equal import -
untoned green grass and of the vivid red nets ance. One of the most impressive features of the
stained by the colour of the sea-weed. Of the collection was a genre bearing the name of A Man
allegorical subjects shown a triptych depicting of the People, by Constantine Meunier. This is a
Nature was especially noteworthy. This was a bronze head of heroic size, in which the spirit of
contribution by Leon Frederic, and showed an able democratic and socialistic idea has apparently been
painter in his most serious manner. It depicts personified. The sturdy vigour, the resistance
Mother Nature with her four children, the Seasons, against oppression, the indefinite yearning after
personified in the large central panel, the little something more worthy in life—these all have
ones reappearing separately in the smaller divisions. been collected in a single sonnet, which is the
A singular union of the most engaging realism in glorification of the poor in their noblest aspirations,
representation with the subtlest qualities of de- Superb work also was seen in the examples by
corative feeling is observed in this production. Of the deceased master, Paul Devigne. Domenica,
the three canvases consti-
tuting the powerful essay
entitled Triumph of Death,
by August Leveque, the
first section, presenting the
Harvest of the Future, sug-
gests a glimpse of the
storied land of Arcady,
wherein the dwellers are
blithesome, roguish child-
ren. An expression of
naive and sprightly move-
ment is the result. The
three allegories by Leem-
poels may be described as
masterpieces.
Among the water colours
should be mentioned the
two admirable achieve-
ments by Alexandre Mar-
cette entitled respectively
Repairing Boats and De-
parture of the Fisherboats.
Mention should also be
made of the quaint study
by Henry Cassiers called
A Dutch Town.
Then the exquisite treat-
ments, with charcoal ren-
derings of hushed, reposeful
church interiors by Alfred
Delaunois should not be
overlooked, while Staquet's
clever water-colour hand- "beneath the beeches" by franz courtexs