DOI Heft:
No. 198 (September, 1908)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20967#0340
Studic-Talk
enamoured, and which he knows so well. The
one entitled Port Saint-Nicolas represents a part
of the Seine just below the Louvre where the
little steam boats are constantly loading and dis-
charging their cargoes, while further off, forming a
fine sweep, the Institute building, the quays, and
“ La Cite ” unfold their splendid outlines. From
the point of view of the graver’s technique, this is
admirable in its strength and precision ; and the
tree in the foreground is executed with that assur-
ance which belongs to the greatest masters. The
view of Le Pont Mirabeau is an equally fine plate.
By means of black-and-white alone the artist has
succeeded in giving us in an eminent degree the
impression of colour, of shimmering water, of
sparse vegetation, and of a vast expanse of sky
interspersed with tenuous clouds.
M. Santiago Rusinol is the painter par excellence
of Spanish gardens—those wonderful gardens in
which one knows not whether one ought to admire
most the handiwork of man—seen in such things
as the marble masonry, the statuary and vases—or
the work of nature. In any case nothing in M.
Rusinol’s work is finer than the resourceful way in
which he manages to extract beauty from these
two elements, both of which have provided him
with motives for many notable canvases. It was
about a dozen years ago that M. Rusinol exhibited
at the Bing galleries his first series of Spanish
garden pictures, and aroused our enthusiasm by the
poetic sense which he revealed in common with
other gifts. And since then this Spanish painter’s
panels have become for many one of the chief
attractions at the National Society’s Salon. These
admirable Spanish gardens—those of the Balearic
Islands, of Cordova and of Seville—have no longer
any secret to yield up to Rusinol; at one time he
permits us to penetrate the mysteries of groves
where box and yew surround some old moss-
covered vase; at another time we get a glimpse of
Majorca with its masses of orange trees in full
flower. Everywhere and always Rusinol is in the
truest sense of the word an artist; he is a man of
much culture and rare taste, as is once more proved
by the beautiful work reproduced on page 308,
the dignified ordering of which will be appreciated
by all. M. Rusinol besides being a painter is also
PORT NICOLAS, PARIS” (ETCHING)
3°6
[By permission op Messrs. James Connell Sons)
BY EUGENE BEJOT
enamoured, and which he knows so well. The
one entitled Port Saint-Nicolas represents a part
of the Seine just below the Louvre where the
little steam boats are constantly loading and dis-
charging their cargoes, while further off, forming a
fine sweep, the Institute building, the quays, and
“ La Cite ” unfold their splendid outlines. From
the point of view of the graver’s technique, this is
admirable in its strength and precision ; and the
tree in the foreground is executed with that assur-
ance which belongs to the greatest masters. The
view of Le Pont Mirabeau is an equally fine plate.
By means of black-and-white alone the artist has
succeeded in giving us in an eminent degree the
impression of colour, of shimmering water, of
sparse vegetation, and of a vast expanse of sky
interspersed with tenuous clouds.
M. Santiago Rusinol is the painter par excellence
of Spanish gardens—those wonderful gardens in
which one knows not whether one ought to admire
most the handiwork of man—seen in such things
as the marble masonry, the statuary and vases—or
the work of nature. In any case nothing in M.
Rusinol’s work is finer than the resourceful way in
which he manages to extract beauty from these
two elements, both of which have provided him
with motives for many notable canvases. It was
about a dozen years ago that M. Rusinol exhibited
at the Bing galleries his first series of Spanish
garden pictures, and aroused our enthusiasm by the
poetic sense which he revealed in common with
other gifts. And since then this Spanish painter’s
panels have become for many one of the chief
attractions at the National Society’s Salon. These
admirable Spanish gardens—those of the Balearic
Islands, of Cordova and of Seville—have no longer
any secret to yield up to Rusinol; at one time he
permits us to penetrate the mysteries of groves
where box and yew surround some old moss-
covered vase; at another time we get a glimpse of
Majorca with its masses of orange trees in full
flower. Everywhere and always Rusinol is in the
truest sense of the word an artist; he is a man of
much culture and rare taste, as is once more proved
by the beautiful work reproduced on page 308,
the dignified ordering of which will be appreciated
by all. M. Rusinol besides being a painter is also
PORT NICOLAS, PARIS” (ETCHING)
3°6
[By permission op Messrs. James Connell Sons)
BY EUGENE BEJOT