DOI Heft:
No. 163 (October, 1906)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20716#0092
Studio-Talk
line makes the strongest appeal to him, and hVis
that medium that he has used during a recent long
sojourn in Venice. He has now acquired, not alone
power of line, but the difficult art of reticence, only
stating the essentials necessary to explain himself
and ignoring everything else. Above all he aims at
dignity, and the result of always striving to attain
that quality gives a classical atmosphere to his
compositions, the dominant note in which is
repose. A. C. K.
GLASGOW.—Stewart Orr, one of the
younger men, is an artist with that
rare quality, a sense of humour.
This characteristic will be applicable
in the role of book illustrator, in which the artist
is actively engaged at the present time. This by
no means absorbs all his imaginative faculty, as a
recent water-colour drawing in skilfully arranged
tones shows. Here there is no suggestion of
humour; the charm of the picture lies in the
distribution of colour in the dull yellow sand, the
grey water, the dark patches of the alderbushes,
the plumage of the angry crow, the line of hills
beyond, and in the white downy feathers of the
central figure, the duck, as also in the complaisance
peisonified of this well-drawn fowl. Stewart Orr
had but one picture at " The Institute " Exhibition
this year, but it was the first of those that were
sold.
The Scottish Guild of Handicraft, in removing
its workshops to that romantic and inspiring district
of Scotland, Stirling, has followed an example set by
its English prototype. All the workers connected
with the establishment, not at ah loth, perhaps,
to migrate to more congenial surroundings, have
entered heartily into the movement, and it is to be
hoped that the results will prove as satisfactory as
in the case at Campden. J. T.
hhh
WATER-COI.OUR DRAWING
72
BY STEWART ORR
line makes the strongest appeal to him, and hVis
that medium that he has used during a recent long
sojourn in Venice. He has now acquired, not alone
power of line, but the difficult art of reticence, only
stating the essentials necessary to explain himself
and ignoring everything else. Above all he aims at
dignity, and the result of always striving to attain
that quality gives a classical atmosphere to his
compositions, the dominant note in which is
repose. A. C. K.
GLASGOW.—Stewart Orr, one of the
younger men, is an artist with that
rare quality, a sense of humour.
This characteristic will be applicable
in the role of book illustrator, in which the artist
is actively engaged at the present time. This by
no means absorbs all his imaginative faculty, as a
recent water-colour drawing in skilfully arranged
tones shows. Here there is no suggestion of
humour; the charm of the picture lies in the
distribution of colour in the dull yellow sand, the
grey water, the dark patches of the alderbushes,
the plumage of the angry crow, the line of hills
beyond, and in the white downy feathers of the
central figure, the duck, as also in the complaisance
peisonified of this well-drawn fowl. Stewart Orr
had but one picture at " The Institute " Exhibition
this year, but it was the first of those that were
sold.
The Scottish Guild of Handicraft, in removing
its workshops to that romantic and inspiring district
of Scotland, Stirling, has followed an example set by
its English prototype. All the workers connected
with the establishment, not at ah loth, perhaps,
to migrate to more congenial surroundings, have
entered heartily into the movement, and it is to be
hoped that the results will prove as satisfactory as
in the case at Campden. J. T.
hhh
WATER-COI.OUR DRAWING
72
BY STEWART ORR