DOI Heft:
No. 174 (September, 1907)
DOI Artikel:Whitley, William Thomas: The National Art Competition at South Kensington, 1907
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20775#0336
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feeling for colour. Morris—a frequent judge in these The tendency this year is towards reticence rather
competitions in bygone years—would, it is safe to than assertiveness of colour, and there is something
say, have found something to admire in the enamels curiously attractive in the subdued tones of the
in the present exhibition, although he might not enamelling, in a severe and somewhat formal
have gone so far as the examiners of 1907 in men- design, of the small copper candlesticks shown by
tioning the work of a student as " so notable an Mr. James J. Burke, of Dublin. Different in con-
achievement as to be worthy to be ranked with the ception and treatment, but similar in reticence of
best enamels in grisaille of any period." The little colour, are the four plaques with little pictures of
cross by Mr. Thomas H. E. Abbott, of the Leeds animals in enamel, contributed by another Dublin
School of Art, to which the examiners refer, is student, Mr. J. Ernest Corr. Apart from their
certainly excellent, but it would have been better, qualities as enamels these plaques are notable
in the interests of the student himself, to have for the good placing in the pictures of the
spoken of its merits with more reserve. A notice- rhinoceros, lion, dogs, and deer that the artist
able quality of the enamels shown this year is their illustrates. A larger enamelled panel by Miss
commendable reticence of colour. Colour in Geraldine Morris, of Birmingham, illustrates the
enamels may or may not be capable of making story told by Malory in the " Morte dArthur" of
those of oil paint "look like mud," as Sir Hubert Sir Tristram entreating that the life of his step-
von Herkomer once told the Royal Academy mother should be spared, although she had
students that it could, but it is easily possible to been sentenced to death for trying to poison
obtain with it hues of flaring gaudiness, and it is him. Miss Morris's panel is a fine piece of rich
the prevalence of these hues that too often makes and lustrous colour, but pictorially it is over-
objectionable the work of the amateur jeweller who ambitious. The composition is crowded and in-
shows his or her work at one or other of the volved, and the panel, deserving of high praise for
many local arts and crafts exhibitions. its execution and intention, suffers by comparison
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feeling for colour. Morris—a frequent judge in these The tendency this year is towards reticence rather
competitions in bygone years—would, it is safe to than assertiveness of colour, and there is something
say, have found something to admire in the enamels curiously attractive in the subdued tones of the
in the present exhibition, although he might not enamelling, in a severe and somewhat formal
have gone so far as the examiners of 1907 in men- design, of the small copper candlesticks shown by
tioning the work of a student as " so notable an Mr. James J. Burke, of Dublin. Different in con-
achievement as to be worthy to be ranked with the ception and treatment, but similar in reticence of
best enamels in grisaille of any period." The little colour, are the four plaques with little pictures of
cross by Mr. Thomas H. E. Abbott, of the Leeds animals in enamel, contributed by another Dublin
School of Art, to which the examiners refer, is student, Mr. J. Ernest Corr. Apart from their
certainly excellent, but it would have been better, qualities as enamels these plaques are notable
in the interests of the student himself, to have for the good placing in the pictures of the
spoken of its merits with more reserve. A notice- rhinoceros, lion, dogs, and deer that the artist
able quality of the enamels shown this year is their illustrates. A larger enamelled panel by Miss
commendable reticence of colour. Colour in Geraldine Morris, of Birmingham, illustrates the
enamels may or may not be capable of making story told by Malory in the " Morte dArthur" of
those of oil paint "look like mud," as Sir Hubert Sir Tristram entreating that the life of his step-
von Herkomer once told the Royal Academy mother should be spared, although she had
students that it could, but it is easily possible to been sentenced to death for trying to poison
obtain with it hues of flaring gaudiness, and it is him. Miss Morris's panel is a fine piece of rich
the prevalence of these hues that too often makes and lustrous colour, but pictorially it is over-
objectionable the work of the amateur jeweller who ambitious. The composition is crowded and in-
shows his or her work at one or other of the volved, and the panel, deserving of high praise for
many local arts and crafts exhibitions. its execution and intention, suffers by comparison
DESIGN FOR A PAINTED BOWL BY SYBIL TAWSE SUNDERLAND)
298