DOI Heft:
No. 171 (June, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Dibdin, E. Rimbault: Mr. E. A. Hornel's paintings of children and flowers
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20775#0025
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DIBDIN.
THE STUDIO
R. E. A. HORNEL'S PAINT- appeal of its medievalism to our hereditary instincts
INGS OF CHILDREN AND helped it to succeed; while the strangely alien
FLQWFRS -qy £ RIMBAULT beauty of Chinese and Japanese objects in our
drawing-rooms still spoke in vain, till stubborn
interpreters slowly forced us to attend.
Two or three years ago I had several discussions I am glad to say that my sceptic afterwards
with a well-known personage about two pictures— bought the Hornel, sorry that he did not further
very dissimilar in style—which happened to be enrich himself by securing the Batten,
hanging in the same room at an exhibition. At There is so much that is unconventional in
first he cared for neither, considering them Hornel's art that what puzzles me most is its
mannered and affected, which they were, if judged success. It seems such a short time since Liver-
by current academic standards. One day he pool enjoyed one of its most exciting art battles,
pointed to Mr. J. ID. Batten's exquisite Beauty over the purchase for the Corporation's permanent
and the Beast, and! said
" I can understand your
liking that, and begin to
agree with you; but I
can't follow you in regard
to the other — how do
you explain it ? " The
other was a little picture
by Mr. Hornel, one of the
most perfectly charming
of his inventions. My
explanation was that the
conventions and manner-
isms of Mr. Batten, though
perfectly individual and
novel in expression, were
of the school that had
been familiar to us from
childhood — which had
played a large part in
English Victorian art;
that, on the other hand,
Mr. Hornel's ideals and
mannerisms were new
and strange their ex-
ternal influences chiefly
from that far Eastern art
which in our boyhood
was not clearly recognised
as art—or, at any rate,
as especially beautiful art.
The school from which
Mr. Batten derived pre-
pared us to understand the
importance of decorative .. .„ „ ,,v ,, . „„,,„,,,
r , "FAIR maids of february IiY E- A' HORNliL
quality in art, and the ( The property oj the Glasgow Corporation)
XLI. No. 171.—Junk, 1907. 3
DIBDIN.
THE STUDIO
R. E. A. HORNEL'S PAINT- appeal of its medievalism to our hereditary instincts
INGS OF CHILDREN AND helped it to succeed; while the strangely alien
FLQWFRS -qy £ RIMBAULT beauty of Chinese and Japanese objects in our
drawing-rooms still spoke in vain, till stubborn
interpreters slowly forced us to attend.
Two or three years ago I had several discussions I am glad to say that my sceptic afterwards
with a well-known personage about two pictures— bought the Hornel, sorry that he did not further
very dissimilar in style—which happened to be enrich himself by securing the Batten,
hanging in the same room at an exhibition. At There is so much that is unconventional in
first he cared for neither, considering them Hornel's art that what puzzles me most is its
mannered and affected, which they were, if judged success. It seems such a short time since Liver-
by current academic standards. One day he pool enjoyed one of its most exciting art battles,
pointed to Mr. J. ID. Batten's exquisite Beauty over the purchase for the Corporation's permanent
and the Beast, and! said
" I can understand your
liking that, and begin to
agree with you; but I
can't follow you in regard
to the other — how do
you explain it ? " The
other was a little picture
by Mr. Hornel, one of the
most perfectly charming
of his inventions. My
explanation was that the
conventions and manner-
isms of Mr. Batten, though
perfectly individual and
novel in expression, were
of the school that had
been familiar to us from
childhood — which had
played a large part in
English Victorian art;
that, on the other hand,
Mr. Hornel's ideals and
mannerisms were new
and strange their ex-
ternal influences chiefly
from that far Eastern art
which in our boyhood
was not clearly recognised
as art—or, at any rate,
as especially beautiful art.
The school from which
Mr. Batten derived pre-
pared us to understand the
importance of decorative .. .„ „ ,,v ,, . „„,,„,,,
r , "FAIR maids of february IiY E- A' HORNliL
quality in art, and the ( The property oj the Glasgow Corporation)
XLI. No. 171.—Junk, 1907. 3