Studio: international art (34.1905)

Studio-Talk

in 1870. He painted some court pictures
of subtle and audacious satire and many
interiors. Menzel's art was immensely
popular in Germany, but such was his
power that the whole of the artistic
world held him in the greatest esteem,
for his paintings partly, but most of all,
perhaps, for his drawings, in which a
power altogether foreign to the tentative
work of our time is observable. T. O.

' MISCHIEF" BY MISS FLORENCE WARD

beginnings—at least as far as these beginnings are
expressed in present societies—being one of the
first members of the Ontario Society of Artists.
The crudeness of the earlier periods of Canadian
life, the lack of many available examples of the
best in art, and the want of public stimulus were
counteracted in him by extended travel and study
abroad—in Paris and elsewhere. In the Ecole
Julien, and under some of the best masters in
Paris, he has had ample opportunity to compare
methods, and from the good of all to contribute
to a true ideal and meritorious technique. The
striking feature of his work is the truthfulness
of the representation of the personality of his
subject, achieved by no trick of technique but by
faithful transcription of the facts of his material
interpreted in the light of its highest and best
expression. A certain sympathy and adaptability
enables him to interpret adequately the tempera-

CANADA.—J. W. L. Forster, A.R.C.A., ment and characteristics of his subject. His
is widely known in Canada as the technique is precise and careful, although rapidly
author of many portraits of public executed. In the portrait of the Rev. G. M.
and private individuals, and has Milligen, one of Canada's ablest preachers, the
been identified with the art of Canada from its thoughtful student is portrayed; in that of Lord

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"THE FLIGHT OF THE SOUL'

BY MISS FLORENCE WARD