DOI Heft:
No. 176 (November, 1907)
DOI Artikel:The third exhibition of the Society of Twenty-Five Painters
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20776#0160
The Society of Twenty-Five Painters
turn each other's work out
of doors. All the pain-
ters have in their turn in-
terested different sections
of the public in the
chief London exhibitions.
Each one enjoys a unique
place, somewhat away
from the beaten track that
is trodden, say, to the
Royal Academy Exhibi-
tion ; though there, as
elsewhere, their work is
always largely represented.
The public will know how
to find their own favourites
in the exhibition without
any leading from us, and
they have this guarantee
„ „ from the nature of the
spring by george houston
society's formation, that no
work which has not already
find only artists with that dignified conception of established its reputation can find its entry therein,
their business which has come to seem a rare At the Barcelona Exhibition- eight of the awards
thing. The public whom we address are very for painting which have just been made fell to
familiar with the stand which such painters as members of the society, and seven of the works
Mr. R. Anning Bell and Prof. Gerald Moira have bought by the Barcelona Art Museum were also
made for art which has troubled to learn certain painted by its members. In indicating how tho-
old recondite rules for which the vulgarity of much roughly this group of artists is representative of
modern brushwork makes a declaration of distaste, important work of the day, our task has perhaps
The splitting up of the art world into communi- been unnecessary in the case of the majority of
ties is a much discussed
question. Modern art in
the various recognised
forms of its heresy has
assumed almost as many
diverse shapes as religion
has in the United States,
and a narrow view of
truth has accounted for
such segregation in nearly
every case; hence there
is something attractive in
a society which allows to
each of its twenty-five
members a point of view
entirely his own. In this
exhibition we have the
prototype of that unity
of aim with difference of
inspiration which it may
be hoped will some day
reconcile the factions in
London who at present "st. ives" by Sydney lee
134
turn each other's work out
of doors. All the pain-
ters have in their turn in-
terested different sections
of the public in the
chief London exhibitions.
Each one enjoys a unique
place, somewhat away
from the beaten track that
is trodden, say, to the
Royal Academy Exhibi-
tion ; though there, as
elsewhere, their work is
always largely represented.
The public will know how
to find their own favourites
in the exhibition without
any leading from us, and
they have this guarantee
„ „ from the nature of the
spring by george houston
society's formation, that no
work which has not already
find only artists with that dignified conception of established its reputation can find its entry therein,
their business which has come to seem a rare At the Barcelona Exhibition- eight of the awards
thing. The public whom we address are very for painting which have just been made fell to
familiar with the stand which such painters as members of the society, and seven of the works
Mr. R. Anning Bell and Prof. Gerald Moira have bought by the Barcelona Art Museum were also
made for art which has troubled to learn certain painted by its members. In indicating how tho-
old recondite rules for which the vulgarity of much roughly this group of artists is representative of
modern brushwork makes a declaration of distaste, important work of the day, our task has perhaps
The splitting up of the art world into communi- been unnecessary in the case of the majority of
ties is a much discussed
question. Modern art in
the various recognised
forms of its heresy has
assumed almost as many
diverse shapes as religion
has in the United States,
and a narrow view of
truth has accounted for
such segregation in nearly
every case; hence there
is something attractive in
a society which allows to
each of its twenty-five
members a point of view
entirely his own. In this
exhibition we have the
prototype of that unity
of aim with difference of
inspiration which it may
be hoped will some day
reconcile the factions in
London who at present "st. ives" by Sydney lee
134