Studio- Talk
Foreign water-colourists are not slow to admit Cox were in including in a picture only sufficient
that their art originated and has found its greatest form, composition and colour as are necessary for
exponents in English hands, but there are few who a satisfying mise-en-scene. Carlandi demands that
so fervently and continuously worship the memory all these must be completed before Nature—by
and the work of De Wint and David Cox as Signor the tyro because of his ignorance away from it,
Onorato Carlandi. Signor Carlandi combines the by the professional because with his knowledge
practice of teaching with that of painting, and there is ample time in which to do so. But
to meet the wishes of pupils who could not everyone is not such a rapid or audacious drafts-
undertake a journey to Rome, he held a class in man as he, and few there are who could produce
Wales last summer, selecting as his headquarters such a tour de force in a short day's work as the
Bettws-y-Coed, so closely associated with Cox. Moel Siabod, which we illustrate, and which is a
No region in the whole of the British Isles pro- water-colour with a base line of over thirty inches.,
duces such a wealth of subject, with such an This, with other pictures resulting from the sojourn
infinity and variety of detail, whether of earth, air, in Wales, was recently on view at the Fine Art.
or water : the skies a profusion of clouds, the Society's Galleries,
heights everywhere presenting range beyond range
of hills, the valleys a mass of luxuriant foliage, The last exhibition of the United Arts Club at.
and the streams a rockstrewn patchwork. Great the Grafton Gallery was a particularly successful1
were the difficulties presented to the students, but one, calling attention to the amount of talent that
they gave the master just the opportunity required is comprised in the club's membership, besides
to enforce the teachings of his English forerunners that displayed in the work of such well-known,
in water-colour art, and the text he again and again members as Messrs. John Lavery, S. J. Solomon,
preached from was : La plus grande vertu de Partiste R.A., Alfred East, R.A., Walter Crane, T. Austen
c'est le sacrifice. Signor Carlandi is an impres- Brown, T. F. M. Sheard, F. Spenlove-Spenlove,
sionist, but only in the sense that De Wint and Arthur Rackham, E. Borough Johnson, all of
"moel siabod from lyn elsi "
306
by onorato carlandij
Foreign water-colourists are not slow to admit Cox were in including in a picture only sufficient
that their art originated and has found its greatest form, composition and colour as are necessary for
exponents in English hands, but there are few who a satisfying mise-en-scene. Carlandi demands that
so fervently and continuously worship the memory all these must be completed before Nature—by
and the work of De Wint and David Cox as Signor the tyro because of his ignorance away from it,
Onorato Carlandi. Signor Carlandi combines the by the professional because with his knowledge
practice of teaching with that of painting, and there is ample time in which to do so. But
to meet the wishes of pupils who could not everyone is not such a rapid or audacious drafts-
undertake a journey to Rome, he held a class in man as he, and few there are who could produce
Wales last summer, selecting as his headquarters such a tour de force in a short day's work as the
Bettws-y-Coed, so closely associated with Cox. Moel Siabod, which we illustrate, and which is a
No region in the whole of the British Isles pro- water-colour with a base line of over thirty inches.,
duces such a wealth of subject, with such an This, with other pictures resulting from the sojourn
infinity and variety of detail, whether of earth, air, in Wales, was recently on view at the Fine Art.
or water : the skies a profusion of clouds, the Society's Galleries,
heights everywhere presenting range beyond range
of hills, the valleys a mass of luxuriant foliage, The last exhibition of the United Arts Club at.
and the streams a rockstrewn patchwork. Great the Grafton Gallery was a particularly successful1
were the difficulties presented to the students, but one, calling attention to the amount of talent that
they gave the master just the opportunity required is comprised in the club's membership, besides
to enforce the teachings of his English forerunners that displayed in the work of such well-known,
in water-colour art, and the text he again and again members as Messrs. John Lavery, S. J. Solomon,
preached from was : La plus grande vertu de Partiste R.A., Alfred East, R.A., Walter Crane, T. Austen
c'est le sacrifice. Signor Carlandi is an impres- Brown, T. F. M. Sheard, F. Spenlove-Spenlove,
sionist, but only in the sense that De Wint and Arthur Rackham, E. Borough Johnson, all of
"moel siabod from lyn elsi "
306
by onorato carlandij