DOI Heft:
No. 229 (April 1912)
DOI Artikel:Salaman, Malcolm C.: A new school of colour-printing for artists
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21156#0207
New School of Colour-Printing
the inking and printing of the monochrome plate
last of all, needless to say are processes of the
utmost delicacy, demanding considerable care,
skill, artistic taste, and sensitiveness.
Every detail, as the student proceeds in the
making of his colour-prints, is supervised by Mr.
Lee Hankey or Mr. Dawson, who have both attained
expert skill in the art, although, recognising that it
offers still greater and richer possibilities of pictorial
expression, they are continually working to develop
and improve the technique. But it is only in the
matter of the technique of what they consider to
be the most legitimate form of colour-printing—as
opposed to the single-plate process, which they have
discarded, although some other talented artists still
favour it—that these teachers exercise influence over
their pupils. Subject and design they leave entirely
to the choice of the pupils themselves, who are thus
encouraged to express their artistic individualities
through the medium of the colour-printed copper-
plate. Of course the essentially decorative character
of the colour-print is always kept in view, but the
range of subject possible to it is very wide, how
wide may in some measure be gauged by looking
round the walls of the exhibition rooms at the
school in St. Peter’s Square. There we may find
landscape and seascape, figure subjects, portraits,
and decorative studies of the nude, and in all the
charm of harmonious colour. A small selection
from the prints that have recently been done at the
School of Colour-Printing is reproduced here)
although it is unfortunately not possible to show
all the plates in colour.
First, the masters. The Fishmarket at Etaples
is a large impressive print by Mr. Lee Hankey,
rich in its seven tones of colour admirably har-
monised, with a fine glow of light splendidly
balanced by deep shadows. The composition is
admirable; the drawing of the well-grouped figures
is instinct with vitality and character. This was
printed from six plates, and so far it represents
Mr. Lee Hankey’s most ambitious essay in
colour-printing. It is a complete picture. Very
quaint in arrangement is A Child of the People,
with its green, red, yellow, and purple tones, all
combined, in four separate printings one over the
“ LES TEOIS PfiCHEUSES d’eTAPLES
186
BY NELSON DAWSON
the inking and printing of the monochrome plate
last of all, needless to say are processes of the
utmost delicacy, demanding considerable care,
skill, artistic taste, and sensitiveness.
Every detail, as the student proceeds in the
making of his colour-prints, is supervised by Mr.
Lee Hankey or Mr. Dawson, who have both attained
expert skill in the art, although, recognising that it
offers still greater and richer possibilities of pictorial
expression, they are continually working to develop
and improve the technique. But it is only in the
matter of the technique of what they consider to
be the most legitimate form of colour-printing—as
opposed to the single-plate process, which they have
discarded, although some other talented artists still
favour it—that these teachers exercise influence over
their pupils. Subject and design they leave entirely
to the choice of the pupils themselves, who are thus
encouraged to express their artistic individualities
through the medium of the colour-printed copper-
plate. Of course the essentially decorative character
of the colour-print is always kept in view, but the
range of subject possible to it is very wide, how
wide may in some measure be gauged by looking
round the walls of the exhibition rooms at the
school in St. Peter’s Square. There we may find
landscape and seascape, figure subjects, portraits,
and decorative studies of the nude, and in all the
charm of harmonious colour. A small selection
from the prints that have recently been done at the
School of Colour-Printing is reproduced here)
although it is unfortunately not possible to show
all the plates in colour.
First, the masters. The Fishmarket at Etaples
is a large impressive print by Mr. Lee Hankey,
rich in its seven tones of colour admirably har-
monised, with a fine glow of light splendidly
balanced by deep shadows. The composition is
admirable; the drawing of the well-grouped figures
is instinct with vitality and character. This was
printed from six plates, and so far it represents
Mr. Lee Hankey’s most ambitious essay in
colour-printing. It is a complete picture. Very
quaint in arrangement is A Child of the People,
with its green, red, yellow, and purple tones, all
combined, in four separate printings one over the
“ LES TEOIS PfiCHEUSES d’eTAPLES
186
BY NELSON DAWSON