DOI Heft:
No. 172 (July, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: The paintings of Mr. Charles Sims
DOI Artikel:Pica, Vittorio: A painter of gardens: Santiago Rusiñol
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20775#0128
A Painter of Gardens: Santiago Rusinol
from any marked preference for the tenets of some A PAINTER OF GARDENS:
present day, for a painter to adopt one or other of / \ VITTORIO PICA
the fashionable executive mannerisms has not per-
ceptibly affected him ; he does not advertise himself Many of our readers must remember the exquisite
as a follower of some school leader, nor even as a little poem in prose, " Frisson d'hiver," in which
professed imitator of any of the older masters who that accomplished French poet Stephanie Mallarme
are held up as fit subjects for the student's worship, describes with such extraordinary tenderness the
He pretends to be neither a modern Frenchman grace and charm of places and things faded and
nor an early Italian; he does not model himself changed by time, and expresses in dreamy and
upon Mr. Sargent, Mr. Abbey, Whistler, or any of musical language the particular state of mind of
the other men who are supposed by their admirers those who, tired and disappointed with all the
to have established immutably the only possible manifestations of our busy, noisy, modern life, love
canons of art. He has the courage to be simply to live intellectually, as it were, in a sort of morbid
himself, and to paint as his instincts tell him he regret of times and things gone by. To that cate-
should—and in this way to take the fullest advan- gory of refined and artistic thinkers belongs the
tage of the qualities which are characteristically his. Spanish painter Santiago Rusinol, generally known
With his temperament and his powers, with his as the "garden painter," from his pronounced love
strenuous individuality and sincere self-reliance, of painting gardens.
there should be before him a career of remarkable Amongst the clever young school of modern
distinction : indeed, almost anything is possible for Spanish artists to whom Spain owes the recent
a man who has at so early an age attained a renaissance of her painting after the decadence due
position which most artists reach only after a life- to the followers of Fortuny, Ignacio Zuloaga stands
time of serious effort. A. L. B. out pre-eminently as the most characteristic painter of
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from any marked preference for the tenets of some A PAINTER OF GARDENS:
present day, for a painter to adopt one or other of / \ VITTORIO PICA
the fashionable executive mannerisms has not per-
ceptibly affected him ; he does not advertise himself Many of our readers must remember the exquisite
as a follower of some school leader, nor even as a little poem in prose, " Frisson d'hiver," in which
professed imitator of any of the older masters who that accomplished French poet Stephanie Mallarme
are held up as fit subjects for the student's worship, describes with such extraordinary tenderness the
He pretends to be neither a modern Frenchman grace and charm of places and things faded and
nor an early Italian; he does not model himself changed by time, and expresses in dreamy and
upon Mr. Sargent, Mr. Abbey, Whistler, or any of musical language the particular state of mind of
the other men who are supposed by their admirers those who, tired and disappointed with all the
to have established immutably the only possible manifestations of our busy, noisy, modern life, love
canons of art. He has the courage to be simply to live intellectually, as it were, in a sort of morbid
himself, and to paint as his instincts tell him he regret of times and things gone by. To that cate-
should—and in this way to take the fullest advan- gory of refined and artistic thinkers belongs the
tage of the qualities which are characteristically his. Spanish painter Santiago Rusinol, generally known
With his temperament and his powers, with his as the "garden painter," from his pronounced love
strenuous individuality and sincere self-reliance, of painting gardens.
there should be before him a career of remarkable Amongst the clever young school of modern
distinction : indeed, almost anything is possible for Spanish artists to whom Spain owes the recent
a man who has at so early an age attained a renaissance of her painting after the decadence due
position which most artists reach only after a life- to the followers of Fortuny, Ignacio Zuloaga stands
time of serious effort. A. L. B. out pre-eminently as the most characteristic painter of
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