Studio: international art (52.1911)

THE STUDIO

OME EXAMPLES OF RECENT
WORK BY MR. FRANK BRAN-
GWYN, A.RA.

In these days, when it is the fashion to pre-
scribe for all forms of thought a system of rigid
tabulation and strict conformity to certain accepted
patterns it would be hardly possible to expect that
art should not be subjected to classification. As
a fact, it has certainly not escaped the tendency of
the times; art workers are incited, whether they
desire it or not, to attach themselves to one or
other of the many sections into which the art
world is divided. They have to belong to some
particular group, to follow some specific phase of
aesthetic conviction, to adopt a special formula,

and they are forbidden by public and professional
opinion the right to be independent or to think out
for themselves the problems of their practice.
Independence, indeed, is resented as an offence
against artistic proprieties : the man who cannot
be placed in one of the pigeon-holes which have
been provided for his reception is regarded and
treated as an outlaw. P2veryone's hand is against
him and he is derided if he is strong or bullied if
he is weak by all the rest of the professional world
in which he lives.

The position is certainly one which is harmful to
the progress and development of art as a whole.
Each group of workers forms a little mutual
admiration society with its own small class of
patrons and its own advocates retained to push

"THE FRUITS OK INDUSTRY" (TEMPERA)

Lil. No. 215.—February, 1911.

by FRANK brangwyn, A. R.A.

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