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DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: Arthur Rackham: a painter of fantasies
DOI Artikel:Wood, T. Martin: A room decorated by Charles Conder
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20711#0217
A Room Decorated by Charles Conder
are as decoratively appropriate as they are naturally find him pursuing an old ideal of his art, and to
charming, and have the fullest measure of the true find him, above everything else, aiming at beautiful
poetic spirit. His landscapes with incidental figures, proportion. Indeed, a regard for the beauty that is
and his pure landscapes of the Lakeside type, are inevitable from an observance of right proportions,
sensitive, dainty, and well observed, distinguished by shows a recognition on the part of the architect of
the happiest observation of atmospheric qualities, what architecture, as the basis of all other arts, really
and by that perfect refinement which comes solely is. Architecture is the construction of set scenes
from intimacy of understanding If he had not in which the drama of life is acted out. Domestic
been so close a student, he could never have architecture creates for a man a little world in which
grasped so firmly the elusive mysteries with which he may surround himself with everything necessary
nature veils herself from the unsympathetic soul, to the development of his personality. In so far as
and he could never have ranked himself so high domestic architecture remembers that it is always
as her faithful and earnest interpreter. the background to man, and that it should have a
A. L. Baldry. restful beauty, it is good : where it forgets this in its
own glorification, where it imposes itself on his eyes
AROOM DECORATED BY instead of giving them rest, it is bad; and this rest-
CHARLES CONDER BY T fulness is obtained from proportion, elegant and
MARTIN WOOD accurate, mathematics justifying instinct, as in an
Adams' room. An indifferent work of art hung
Picture painting, having grown out of wall in a rightly built room does not detract from that
painting, has never really been divorced from archi- room to the extent that a beautiful picture is
tecture ; it is in fact its most exquisite flower. For detracted from when it fights against unpleasant
the architect then to lead consciously up to fixed surroundings. The impulse which in the eighteenth
decorated panels or to the movable picture is to century carried pictures across everything, fans,
panel in water-colours on silk
by charles conder
201
are as decoratively appropriate as they are naturally find him pursuing an old ideal of his art, and to
charming, and have the fullest measure of the true find him, above everything else, aiming at beautiful
poetic spirit. His landscapes with incidental figures, proportion. Indeed, a regard for the beauty that is
and his pure landscapes of the Lakeside type, are inevitable from an observance of right proportions,
sensitive, dainty, and well observed, distinguished by shows a recognition on the part of the architect of
the happiest observation of atmospheric qualities, what architecture, as the basis of all other arts, really
and by that perfect refinement which comes solely is. Architecture is the construction of set scenes
from intimacy of understanding If he had not in which the drama of life is acted out. Domestic
been so close a student, he could never have architecture creates for a man a little world in which
grasped so firmly the elusive mysteries with which he may surround himself with everything necessary
nature veils herself from the unsympathetic soul, to the development of his personality. In so far as
and he could never have ranked himself so high domestic architecture remembers that it is always
as her faithful and earnest interpreter. the background to man, and that it should have a
A. L. Baldry. restful beauty, it is good : where it forgets this in its
own glorification, where it imposes itself on his eyes
AROOM DECORATED BY instead of giving them rest, it is bad; and this rest-
CHARLES CONDER BY T fulness is obtained from proportion, elegant and
MARTIN WOOD accurate, mathematics justifying instinct, as in an
Adams' room. An indifferent work of art hung
Picture painting, having grown out of wall in a rightly built room does not detract from that
painting, has never really been divorced from archi- room to the extent that a beautiful picture is
tecture ; it is in fact its most exquisite flower. For detracted from when it fights against unpleasant
the architect then to lead consciously up to fixed surroundings. The impulse which in the eighteenth
decorated panels or to the movable picture is to century carried pictures across everything, fans,
panel in water-colours on silk
by charles conder
201