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Nr. 222 (September 1911)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20973#0327
Studio-Talk
decorative sense which enables him to interpret the upon which the exhibition is worked—as every
facts of nature with a considerable measure of one knows, that of accepting everything sent in—
dignity and largeness of suggestion ; and, for another, it is a fact that so far from the good pictures being
he is a sensitive colourist and has a right ap- lost sight of they tend to discover themselves by
preciation of subtleties of tone relation. He is, too, sheer contrast with works not specially chosen to
an able craftsman, with a sound understanding support them ; the society's arrangements being, if
of the way in which the various painting mediums not a test of the pictures, then of the spectator,
should be applied ; and there is a scholarly com- who himself must pass the judgment. There is, how-
pleteness in all his technical exercises which can be ever, one respect in which the exhibition proves the
sincerely commended. The examples given here value of the competitive system as against the co-
of his work in pastel show well how skilfully he operative one adopted in its own case. We refer to
manages a process which demands essentially a the fact that whilst the absence of competition lets
frank confidence of handling and a special direct- in at one end of the scale much that is futile, it tends
ness of method. Mr. Goodman uses the pastel to exclude at the other the work of those many good
medium with admirable certainty and firmness of artists who seem to require the stimulus connected
draughtsmanship, and yet with a delicate freshness with the chance of acceptance or rejection of the
of effect that is exceedingly persuasive. picture ; and from the fact that some of these are
- content to be represented at less than their best,
That very democratic experiment, the London the uniquely comprehensive character which the
Salon, arranged by the Allied Artists'' Association Allied Artists' Association have in view for their
at the Royal Albert Hall for the third year in exhibitions is threatened. The London Salon,
succession, lent interest to the last weeks of the however, provides a kind of exhibition which is
picture season. In connection with the system a necessity in this country—in any industrial
"BERKSHIRE, WINTER " (PASTEL) BY R. GWELO GOODMAN
306
decorative sense which enables him to interpret the upon which the exhibition is worked—as every
facts of nature with a considerable measure of one knows, that of accepting everything sent in—
dignity and largeness of suggestion ; and, for another, it is a fact that so far from the good pictures being
he is a sensitive colourist and has a right ap- lost sight of they tend to discover themselves by
preciation of subtleties of tone relation. He is, too, sheer contrast with works not specially chosen to
an able craftsman, with a sound understanding support them ; the society's arrangements being, if
of the way in which the various painting mediums not a test of the pictures, then of the spectator,
should be applied ; and there is a scholarly com- who himself must pass the judgment. There is, how-
pleteness in all his technical exercises which can be ever, one respect in which the exhibition proves the
sincerely commended. The examples given here value of the competitive system as against the co-
of his work in pastel show well how skilfully he operative one adopted in its own case. We refer to
manages a process which demands essentially a the fact that whilst the absence of competition lets
frank confidence of handling and a special direct- in at one end of the scale much that is futile, it tends
ness of method. Mr. Goodman uses the pastel to exclude at the other the work of those many good
medium with admirable certainty and firmness of artists who seem to require the stimulus connected
draughtsmanship, and yet with a delicate freshness with the chance of acceptance or rejection of the
of effect that is exceedingly persuasive. picture ; and from the fact that some of these are
- content to be represented at less than their best,
That very democratic experiment, the London the uniquely comprehensive character which the
Salon, arranged by the Allied Artists'' Association Allied Artists' Association have in view for their
at the Royal Albert Hall for the third year in exhibitions is threatened. The London Salon,
succession, lent interest to the last weeks of the however, provides a kind of exhibition which is
picture season. In connection with the system a necessity in this country—in any industrial
"BERKSHIRE, WINTER " (PASTEL) BY R. GWELO GOODMAN
306