DOI Heft:
No. 166 (January, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Wood, T. Martin: Drawings and sketches by modern masters
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20716#0356
Drawings and Sketches by Modern Masters
masters would seem very much alike. For, after drawing which is content to be simply a reflection
all, the old masters were concerned not with of the artist's view of life and its appearance,
a way of drawing differently from each other, but By reproducing for our illustrations drawings in
with the different way in which they saw the same various stages of completion, we have tried to give
thing, content with the fact that no two minds in the case of each artist a stage of finish charac-
truly expressing themselves find expression in the teristic of the artist's methods. Rossetti liked to
same way. The modern artist seems to put down work across his picture with a point, to let his
a line and to alter it lest it looks like a line which drawing grow slowly whilst he brooded over the
another man might have drawn, and to alter it yet vision that should appear on his paper. He had
again lest it should fail to astonish. This is part no reason to hurry any of his drawings of beau-
of the desire for advertisement which has the tiful women, for if he finished one he felt compelled
modern world in possession, which has the artist to begin another in which to dwell on that same
too in its sway ; for all that his methods are subtle, beauty. Always looking inwards, he cared only for
But we know that when anything so irrelevant as the reflections life cast into the soul. His Ligeia
advertisement comes in at the door, Art must go Siren, here reproduced, which must be ranked
out by the window. as one of the best, if not the best of his large
In an exhibition of drawings the public is always drawings 01 women, has hitherto remained unpub-
faced with two separate kinds of affectation. That lished in any account of the painter and his work,
of work which forgets what it set out to say whilst It is almost the only finished nude of any im-
striving to say it in a novel way, and that of work portance which he drew, and it is a wonderful
which is simply a museum crib, the empty husk of example of the strange emotional beauty of his
an old-fashioned style. It is quite difficult to find art. It is his art at its very best, altogether free
study of drapery (By Permission of Hugh Lane, Esq.) 'by lord leighton, p.r.a.
336
masters would seem very much alike. For, after drawing which is content to be simply a reflection
all, the old masters were concerned not with of the artist's view of life and its appearance,
a way of drawing differently from each other, but By reproducing for our illustrations drawings in
with the different way in which they saw the same various stages of completion, we have tried to give
thing, content with the fact that no two minds in the case of each artist a stage of finish charac-
truly expressing themselves find expression in the teristic of the artist's methods. Rossetti liked to
same way. The modern artist seems to put down work across his picture with a point, to let his
a line and to alter it lest it looks like a line which drawing grow slowly whilst he brooded over the
another man might have drawn, and to alter it yet vision that should appear on his paper. He had
again lest it should fail to astonish. This is part no reason to hurry any of his drawings of beau-
of the desire for advertisement which has the tiful women, for if he finished one he felt compelled
modern world in possession, which has the artist to begin another in which to dwell on that same
too in its sway ; for all that his methods are subtle, beauty. Always looking inwards, he cared only for
But we know that when anything so irrelevant as the reflections life cast into the soul. His Ligeia
advertisement comes in at the door, Art must go Siren, here reproduced, which must be ranked
out by the window. as one of the best, if not the best of his large
In an exhibition of drawings the public is always drawings 01 women, has hitherto remained unpub-
faced with two separate kinds of affectation. That lished in any account of the painter and his work,
of work which forgets what it set out to say whilst It is almost the only finished nude of any im-
striving to say it in a novel way, and that of work portance which he drew, and it is a wonderful
which is simply a museum crib, the empty husk of example of the strange emotional beauty of his
an old-fashioned style. It is quite difficult to find art. It is his art at its very best, altogether free
study of drapery (By Permission of Hugh Lane, Esq.) 'by lord leighton, p.r.a.
336