DOI Heft:
No. 225 (December 1911)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Artikel:Art School notes
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0270
Art School Notes
sister arts. Europe and America have absorbed a
large number of the best pieces, and at the same
time a greater quantity of inferior work which the
Chinese have been glad to part with under the
delusion that they were ministering to so-called
" foreign taste." The archaic bronzes have appealed
little to the western collector, although imitations
of the beautiful Ming bronzes are now being made
for western residents in the Far East. Most of the
native picture dealers unfortunately are obsessed
by the idea that there is a " foreign taste " which
is synonymous with vulgarity, so that it is ex-
tremely difficult to get hold of really good work.
The purpose of the proposed exhibition is to
concentrate attention on the best available speci-
mens of Chinese bronze and pictorial art. Chinese
bronze dates back before written record. In the
Chow dynasty, a thousand years before Christ, the
industry was in a flourishing condition, and in the
Sung and Ming periods it attained marvellous de-
velopment. Chinese painting cannot in point of
age be compared to bronze, and the examples at
present existent are all comparatively modern.
The early stages of the evolution of Chinese
pictorial art are only known to us through his-
torical records. No pictures still existent are more
than 1500 years old, that is to say, 900 years
before Giotto. A. S.
ART SCHOOL NOTES.
LONDON.—The School of Animal Painting in
Baker Street, which is the best known
institution of its kind in the world and
—> attracts students not only from the
United Kingdom but from America and all parts
of the Continent, will be transferred early in the
New Year from Marylebone to Kensington. Under
the able direction of Mr. W. Frank Calderon it has
increased so much that the old quarters are
insufficient, and for some months past a new
building has been in course of erection at St. Mary
Abbott's Place, Kensington, within a few yards of
the main road, and adjoining the fine studios
GRAVE MONUMENT
248
( Mahrzscher Kunstverein, Briinn)
BY LEOPOLD HOHL
sister arts. Europe and America have absorbed a
large number of the best pieces, and at the same
time a greater quantity of inferior work which the
Chinese have been glad to part with under the
delusion that they were ministering to so-called
" foreign taste." The archaic bronzes have appealed
little to the western collector, although imitations
of the beautiful Ming bronzes are now being made
for western residents in the Far East. Most of the
native picture dealers unfortunately are obsessed
by the idea that there is a " foreign taste " which
is synonymous with vulgarity, so that it is ex-
tremely difficult to get hold of really good work.
The purpose of the proposed exhibition is to
concentrate attention on the best available speci-
mens of Chinese bronze and pictorial art. Chinese
bronze dates back before written record. In the
Chow dynasty, a thousand years before Christ, the
industry was in a flourishing condition, and in the
Sung and Ming periods it attained marvellous de-
velopment. Chinese painting cannot in point of
age be compared to bronze, and the examples at
present existent are all comparatively modern.
The early stages of the evolution of Chinese
pictorial art are only known to us through his-
torical records. No pictures still existent are more
than 1500 years old, that is to say, 900 years
before Giotto. A. S.
ART SCHOOL NOTES.
LONDON.—The School of Animal Painting in
Baker Street, which is the best known
institution of its kind in the world and
—> attracts students not only from the
United Kingdom but from America and all parts
of the Continent, will be transferred early in the
New Year from Marylebone to Kensington. Under
the able direction of Mr. W. Frank Calderon it has
increased so much that the old quarters are
insufficient, and for some months past a new
building has been in course of erection at St. Mary
Abbott's Place, Kensington, within a few yards of
the main road, and adjoining the fine studios
GRAVE MONUMENT
248
( Mahrzscher Kunstverein, Briinn)
BY LEOPOLD HOHL