DOI Heft:
No. 223 (October 1911)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0080
Studio- Talk
the Austrian capital, and received commissions every regard has been paid to decorative massing,
from the Imperial house and members of the The emphasis to colour which the method gives is
aristocracy. About 1890 he commenced a series easily imagined. The successful precedent of the
of busts of the " Famous Musicians," feeling the late Mr. E. A. Abbey's work was the foundation of
scarcity of plastic representations of any of our this theory of mural effect,
foremost musicians. He made the friendship of -
Brahms, and carried out the best likenesses that Art, in the sense of presenting things effectively
have been made of that composer. Mr. Hedley is and beautifully to the eye, seems to have invaded
also a painter. Plaques in oxidised silver con- every province of modern life except the theatre
stitute his latest achievement, and his portrait in —at least in this country, where in matters per-
this style of Madame Clara Butt was acquired by taining to the stage tradition maintains a firm
the late King Edward. A plaquette of Paderewski grip and anything in the shape of an innovation
was purchased by the Belgian Government. has little chance of acceptance. Mr. Gordon
- Craig, who has been living and working on the
Mr. Fred Stratton, whose oil painting Morning Continent for a long time past, has lately returned
we are reproducing, has already been introduced to to England, and the Leicester Gallery has wisely
readers of The Studio. As an artist he appears taken advantage of his arrival to exhibit some
to descend from the Barbizon school. In com- of his designs and models for "Macbeth" and
position, some of the charm of Corot seems to find other plays. The drawings and models for
a successful reflection in his pictures, but in style <' Macbeth " were made on request of a London
Mr. Stratton works upon a line of his own. management, but were never used. To the actor-
- manager there would seem to be only one art of
One of the last panels to be added to the the theatre—his own acting; _and only one use
decorations in the Royal Exchange is by Mr. J. H. for lime-lights—to illuminate himself. Mr. Craig
Amschewitz. Our illustration gives an adequate has, however, as is well known, conceived the idea
representation of his style, and it will be seen that that by means of an imaginative instead of a
"morning" ( The property oj G. Cribble, Esq.) by fred stratton
58
the Austrian capital, and received commissions every regard has been paid to decorative massing,
from the Imperial house and members of the The emphasis to colour which the method gives is
aristocracy. About 1890 he commenced a series easily imagined. The successful precedent of the
of busts of the " Famous Musicians," feeling the late Mr. E. A. Abbey's work was the foundation of
scarcity of plastic representations of any of our this theory of mural effect,
foremost musicians. He made the friendship of -
Brahms, and carried out the best likenesses that Art, in the sense of presenting things effectively
have been made of that composer. Mr. Hedley is and beautifully to the eye, seems to have invaded
also a painter. Plaques in oxidised silver con- every province of modern life except the theatre
stitute his latest achievement, and his portrait in —at least in this country, where in matters per-
this style of Madame Clara Butt was acquired by taining to the stage tradition maintains a firm
the late King Edward. A plaquette of Paderewski grip and anything in the shape of an innovation
was purchased by the Belgian Government. has little chance of acceptance. Mr. Gordon
- Craig, who has been living and working on the
Mr. Fred Stratton, whose oil painting Morning Continent for a long time past, has lately returned
we are reproducing, has already been introduced to to England, and the Leicester Gallery has wisely
readers of The Studio. As an artist he appears taken advantage of his arrival to exhibit some
to descend from the Barbizon school. In com- of his designs and models for "Macbeth" and
position, some of the charm of Corot seems to find other plays. The drawings and models for
a successful reflection in his pictures, but in style <' Macbeth " were made on request of a London
Mr. Stratton works upon a line of his own. management, but were never used. To the actor-
- manager there would seem to be only one art of
One of the last panels to be added to the the theatre—his own acting; _and only one use
decorations in the Royal Exchange is by Mr. J. H. for lime-lights—to illuminate himself. Mr. Craig
Amschewitz. Our illustration gives an adequate has, however, as is well known, conceived the idea
representation of his style, and it will be seen that that by means of an imaginative instead of a
"morning" ( The property oj G. Cribble, Esq.) by fred stratton
58