DOI issue:
No. 177 (December, 1907)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20776#0277
Studio-Talk
"SOUVENIR D'lTALIK" (ETCHING) BY DOMINGO MOTTA
purpose and aspect of much of his work, it has but that line of work. Pierrefort, of Paris, publishes
little in common with earlier painters' efforts in the his etchings. Motta is very well known in Paris,
same direction. His large canvas, From the Terrace where he has spent his time in endeavouring to
of St. Germain-en-Laye, shown at the last exhibition perfect his art. He has exhibited in the Salon,
of the Royal Academy in Copenhagen, proves how Paris, at the International Exhibition of Venice,
Dorph, through the grouping of the figures and and many others, and at Lie'ge two years ago he
the lines and the tone of the landscape, has was awarded a silver medal. C.
succeeded in producing just the decorative effect
and the poetic, harmonious mood he intended. | "V HILADELPHIA. — A development by
G. B. I 3 Mr. Henry C. Mercer of the ancient
V
process of making pottery, brought to
1AREGGIO.—Domingo Motta was born * America by German colonists from the
in Genoa, and studied in several academies Black Forest in the eighteenth century, has resulted
of fine arts in Italy. He began his in the production of Moravian tiles, which in-
practical work by scene painting in the elude very interesting patterns and mosaics in
leading theatres of Italy. For several years Motta coloured clays. At the same time care has been
lived in Paris, where he made a serious study of taken in the choice of adapted designs believed to
modern etching. His method of obtaining the print be worthy of reproduction from ancient wall tiles
is very simple and entirely different from any other in Spain, mural patterns from Colonial America,
existing, and it deeply interests all who cultivate Italy, and the East, and floor tiles of the fifteenth
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"SOUVENIR D'lTALIK" (ETCHING) BY DOMINGO MOTTA
purpose and aspect of much of his work, it has but that line of work. Pierrefort, of Paris, publishes
little in common with earlier painters' efforts in the his etchings. Motta is very well known in Paris,
same direction. His large canvas, From the Terrace where he has spent his time in endeavouring to
of St. Germain-en-Laye, shown at the last exhibition perfect his art. He has exhibited in the Salon,
of the Royal Academy in Copenhagen, proves how Paris, at the International Exhibition of Venice,
Dorph, through the grouping of the figures and and many others, and at Lie'ge two years ago he
the lines and the tone of the landscape, has was awarded a silver medal. C.
succeeded in producing just the decorative effect
and the poetic, harmonious mood he intended. | "V HILADELPHIA. — A development by
G. B. I 3 Mr. Henry C. Mercer of the ancient
V
process of making pottery, brought to
1AREGGIO.—Domingo Motta was born * America by German colonists from the
in Genoa, and studied in several academies Black Forest in the eighteenth century, has resulted
of fine arts in Italy. He began his in the production of Moravian tiles, which in-
practical work by scene painting in the elude very interesting patterns and mosaics in
leading theatres of Italy. For several years Motta coloured clays. At the same time care has been
lived in Paris, where he made a serious study of taken in the choice of adapted designs believed to
modern etching. His method of obtaining the print be worthy of reproduction from ancient wall tiles
is very simple and entirely different from any other in Spain, mural patterns from Colonial America,
existing, and it deeply interests all who cultivate Italy, and the East, and floor tiles of the fifteenth
247