DOI Heft:
No. 226 (January 1912)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21155#0357
Studio-Talk
DINING-ROOM SETTEE IN OLD RUSSIAN STYLE
(See Moscow St;
will come of it all. Sketches and studies are lying
about me, but I never copy them ; these things are
past, they are done with, they were the joys of
former days ! . . . To see much, to practise the
memory, this I consider a first requisite, then hard
working in the open air to enter into the soul
and spirit of all and not to forget the metier;
dreaming at home of all those beautiful things;
consulting a few scratches on the back of a letter
or other occasional scrap of paper, and when the
dream has burst into clearness then hit your canvas,
then ply your brushes, and finish at once if possible ;
and in case you take it up again, then take it up
tenderly, lift it with care and treat your friend
cautiously, scrupulously, timidly, not to hurt the
good fellow."
The passages quoted above are the open and
confident effusion of a friend to another friend who
takes an interest in the artist's work, and they are
given without the least arriire -bensee or calcu-
lation. So the man has always been ; speaking
plainly, without any roundabout ways, giving him-
self as he really is. Though of a weak constitution
and subject to repeated attacks of pneumonia, his
DESIGNED BY A. VASNETZOFF
io-Talk, p. 333)
great strength of mind, his ardent spirit, help to
keep him standing and make him bear up and
endure " the slings and arrows of outrageous
fortune " in a manly way.
Besides landscapes, Mr. Hamel paints seascapes,
interiors, and portraits. And in portraiture he has
made very fine things. Most of his landscapes
represent grey days—of late the artist has developed
a sense for more luminous skies and mighty effects
of clouds—but his portraits are always strongly lit;
especially the heads are bathed in a luminous
atmosphere; he concentrates all the light upon them
in order to render the characteristic traits, physical
and mental, of his sitters and to bring forth the
soul in a blaze of light. Hamel wishes to be a
downright anti-specialist. He in no way and by
no means aspires to the name of a sheep-painter,
or a painter of interiors, or of cows, or of the sea,
or of portraits, or of whatever you like. If there
is to be any speciality or particularity about him,
it will have to be sought mainly in his loving
penetration into all he sees to be beautiful and
the love and conscientiousness with which he
renders it. E. B Koster.
335
DINING-ROOM SETTEE IN OLD RUSSIAN STYLE
(See Moscow St;
will come of it all. Sketches and studies are lying
about me, but I never copy them ; these things are
past, they are done with, they were the joys of
former days ! . . . To see much, to practise the
memory, this I consider a first requisite, then hard
working in the open air to enter into the soul
and spirit of all and not to forget the metier;
dreaming at home of all those beautiful things;
consulting a few scratches on the back of a letter
or other occasional scrap of paper, and when the
dream has burst into clearness then hit your canvas,
then ply your brushes, and finish at once if possible ;
and in case you take it up again, then take it up
tenderly, lift it with care and treat your friend
cautiously, scrupulously, timidly, not to hurt the
good fellow."
The passages quoted above are the open and
confident effusion of a friend to another friend who
takes an interest in the artist's work, and they are
given without the least arriire -bensee or calcu-
lation. So the man has always been ; speaking
plainly, without any roundabout ways, giving him-
self as he really is. Though of a weak constitution
and subject to repeated attacks of pneumonia, his
DESIGNED BY A. VASNETZOFF
io-Talk, p. 333)
great strength of mind, his ardent spirit, help to
keep him standing and make him bear up and
endure " the slings and arrows of outrageous
fortune " in a manly way.
Besides landscapes, Mr. Hamel paints seascapes,
interiors, and portraits. And in portraiture he has
made very fine things. Most of his landscapes
represent grey days—of late the artist has developed
a sense for more luminous skies and mighty effects
of clouds—but his portraits are always strongly lit;
especially the heads are bathed in a luminous
atmosphere; he concentrates all the light upon them
in order to render the characteristic traits, physical
and mental, of his sitters and to bring forth the
soul in a blaze of light. Hamel wishes to be a
downright anti-specialist. He in no way and by
no means aspires to the name of a sheep-painter,
or a painter of interiors, or of cows, or of the sea,
or of portraits, or of whatever you like. If there
is to be any speciality or particularity about him,
it will have to be sought mainly in his loving
penetration into all he sees to be beautiful and
the love and conscientiousness with which he
renders it. E. B Koster.
335