DOI Heft:
No. 223 (October 1911)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0082
Studio-Talk
realistic scheme of stage illusion the actor might all necessary weight of tone without lapsing into
add a thousandfold to the significance of his sombreness or obscurity,
performance.
- Some good after all may come from the theft of
Although the period during which Mr. Harold La Gioconda if the fact is brought home that,
Knight has been before the public is comparatively beyond the material triumph of superlative crafts-
short he has already taken a place of real distraction manship, every great picture has an influence far
among the more notable of our present-day painters. and wide. The influence of the Gioconda was every-
There are certain qualities in his work which make where, and we owe to it Pater's most inspired page,
it more than ordinarily interesting to students of an influence in its turn,
intelligent achievement, certain personal charac-
teristics which frankly claim acceptance because The latest addition to our own art treasures is
they are expressed with unusual sincerity of con- the famous painting by Mabuse representing the
viction and freshness of style. The technical Adoration of the Kings. This painting has been for
merits of his paintings are particularly to be com- more than a century the property of the Earls of
mended; his sureness and breadth of handling, Carlisle, and its genealogy seems to be so well
his flexibility of draughtsmanship, and his clever established that there is never likely to be any dis-
management of subtleties of colour-gradation are pute about its authenticity, though as to its intrinsic
quite admirable, and his understanding of pictorial merits there is already considerable divergence of
devices and processes is ex-
ceptionally complete. This
command over methods of
practice counts for much in
his art for it enables him to
attack successfully problems
of painting which only the
most thoroughly equipped
craftsman can ever hope to
solve. For example, it serves
him perfectly in that study
of effects of brilliant open-
air illumination with which
he has been so much occu-
pied during recent years—a
form of study that demands
a special acuteness of ob-
servation and a high degree
of sensitiveness to tone re-
lations and colour modula-
tions. He is so much a
master of subtleties of ex-
pression that in subjects like
The Reader he can convey
the fullest impression of an
effect of pervading light
without having to resort to
tricks of colour subdivision
and without having to
sacrifice strength of local
colour in an effort to reach
an impossibly high pitch;
while in less exacting
motives like Grace before Meat
and The Letter he c'an secure -'the letter . by harold knight
60
realistic scheme of stage illusion the actor might all necessary weight of tone without lapsing into
add a thousandfold to the significance of his sombreness or obscurity,
performance.
- Some good after all may come from the theft of
Although the period during which Mr. Harold La Gioconda if the fact is brought home that,
Knight has been before the public is comparatively beyond the material triumph of superlative crafts-
short he has already taken a place of real distraction manship, every great picture has an influence far
among the more notable of our present-day painters. and wide. The influence of the Gioconda was every-
There are certain qualities in his work which make where, and we owe to it Pater's most inspired page,
it more than ordinarily interesting to students of an influence in its turn,
intelligent achievement, certain personal charac-
teristics which frankly claim acceptance because The latest addition to our own art treasures is
they are expressed with unusual sincerity of con- the famous painting by Mabuse representing the
viction and freshness of style. The technical Adoration of the Kings. This painting has been for
merits of his paintings are particularly to be com- more than a century the property of the Earls of
mended; his sureness and breadth of handling, Carlisle, and its genealogy seems to be so well
his flexibility of draughtsmanship, and his clever established that there is never likely to be any dis-
management of subtleties of colour-gradation are pute about its authenticity, though as to its intrinsic
quite admirable, and his understanding of pictorial merits there is already considerable divergence of
devices and processes is ex-
ceptionally complete. This
command over methods of
practice counts for much in
his art for it enables him to
attack successfully problems
of painting which only the
most thoroughly equipped
craftsman can ever hope to
solve. For example, it serves
him perfectly in that study
of effects of brilliant open-
air illumination with which
he has been so much occu-
pied during recent years—a
form of study that demands
a special acuteness of ob-
servation and a high degree
of sensitiveness to tone re-
lations and colour modula-
tions. He is so much a
master of subtleties of ex-
pression that in subjects like
The Reader he can convey
the fullest impression of an
effect of pervading light
without having to resort to
tricks of colour subdivision
and without having to
sacrifice strength of local
colour in an effort to reach
an impossibly high pitch;
while in less exacting
motives like Grace before Meat
and The Letter he c'an secure -'the letter . by harold knight
60