Studio: international art (34.1905)

Studio- Talk

views in the neighbourhood of Katwijk—houses, dark colour. But we shall come to understand

parts of the dunes, with few figures. His colour Gabriel's way of looking and his way of feeling,

is flower-like, but it misses passion. All his His art is characterised by quietness; by the

pictures are too much alike. How could it be clearness of his skies; by quiet atmospheric

otherwise ? He has made too many of them in effects, not effects of rain, or snow, or violent storm,

the three or four years he has been painting. In the beginning Gabriel was undoubtedly in-

Before being a painter he was a policeman; before fluenced by Koekkoek, of whom he was a pupil

that a working man, it seems, in. Rotterdam, for a short time, and by some of the great French

And these things are to many people in Holland painters. Then his originality developed. Gabriel

more interesting nowadays than the beauty of is now talked about. He is not yet so well known

works. People are told these things, and then as he ought to be, but the rest will come. His

they begin to look at his art. And this is, of fame will increase because his works are simple

course, wrong. Wassenaar has still to learn yet deep, sober yet not poor, without any desire

everything. His bright colour has not yet any but for breadth, and yet full of fine detail,

deep feeling; his figures are lines and colours, -

not yet living bodies. All this is less the fault of The recent death of Theophile de Bock has been
the talented Wassenaar than his friends, who caused followed by a series of exhibitions of his works at
him to do too many pictures in so few years. And The Hague and Amsterdam. These will be dealt
all his faults might be mitigated by smaller pro- with next month. P.
duction and more earnest
work : that he will ever be
a great painter I cannot
think.

Nyland exhibited black-
and-white drawings—still-
life and illustrations for a
book. The still-life was
characterised by strongly-
marked form: by deep
blacks against the white of
the paper — strong in a
sense they were, but lacking
in life and vibration. The
best things were two draw-
ings of Shoes, a still-life of
Pottery, and one of the
portraits of A Girl, the
most impulsive of the two
he exhibited.

The name of Gabriel
is rising. There are
painters whose pictures
are more charming ; their
colour is, perhaps, louder
or more musical; even
story-telling pictures are as
always in fashion. The
beauty of Maris' paint-
ings is the beauty looked
for, worked for, by a host
of younger painters, as not furniture designed by max lauger

SO long ago it was Israel's (See Karlsruhe Studio- Talk)

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