DOI Heft:
No. 157 (April, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Wood, T. Martin: Modern flower painting and its character
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20714#0219
Modern Flower-Painting
paints his flowers in what
light he will, he arranges
them as he pleases, and we
know that the arrangement
is passing and the light
moves only a little less
quickly than the wind that
passes over them. The
artist's sympathy with all
these changing phenomena
is the only thing that lives,
the phenomena of atmo-
sphere change and all
flowers die. Where art be-
comes mannered, tricky,
stale, unsympathetic, and
difficult to justify, is where
the flower itself has ceased
to be the inspiration, and
the inspiration has come
from paint, mere paint—
that is, if it were possible for
any inspiration to come
from paint. The mistake
which much modern art
makes, as we have hinted,
is that painters seek their
inspiration on the palette,
seek to adjust nature to "pinks" (By permission of Messrs. Obach &* Co.) by kantin-latouk
a bowl of roses" (By permission of Mr. John Baillie) by ii. s. tuke, a.r.a.
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paints his flowers in what
light he will, he arranges
them as he pleases, and we
know that the arrangement
is passing and the light
moves only a little less
quickly than the wind that
passes over them. The
artist's sympathy with all
these changing phenomena
is the only thing that lives,
the phenomena of atmo-
sphere change and all
flowers die. Where art be-
comes mannered, tricky,
stale, unsympathetic, and
difficult to justify, is where
the flower itself has ceased
to be the inspiration, and
the inspiration has come
from paint, mere paint—
that is, if it were possible for
any inspiration to come
from paint. The mistake
which much modern art
makes, as we have hinted,
is that painters seek their
inspiration on the palette,
seek to adjust nature to "pinks" (By permission of Messrs. Obach &* Co.) by kantin-latouk
a bowl of roses" (By permission of Mr. John Baillie) by ii. s. tuke, a.r.a.
199