DOI Heft:
No.233 (August 1912)
DOI Artikel:Hyde, Frank: Anticoli Corrado: a town of models
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21157#0245
Studio-Talk
“on the road
FROM A LEAD-PENCIL DRAWING BY SYDNEY JOSEPH
these fortified towns on the mountains was in
continuous warfare one with the other.
There is no begging, no pestering the artist as at
other places. Most of the painters work out of
doors, painting the nude in the open air under the
vines; it is very seldom that a studio is used,
although they can be got at a reasonable price—say
20 francs a month.
Of course there are no shops, no cafts, the only
meeting-place being a little tobacco-shop kept by
two dark-eyed sisters, once models. The place
is so small, however, that you prefer of an
evening to sit outside and drink your glass of
Protto, watching the endless procession of pic-
turesque figures pass before you; only you must
beware of the pigs that are rushing about by
hundreds ! Every one owns at least six, and they
may knock you over, table and all! I’ve often
seen a tiny child of five on its way home take a
double hitch with its little fist round the family
pig’s tail and be hauled through the Piazza, fol-
lowed by the admiring family, all heavily laden
with implements of the field and gleaned corn.
Yes! Anticoli Corrado for the artist takes a lot
of beating ! F. H.
STUDIO-TALK.
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
LONDON.—The death of Sir Lawrence Alma-
Tadema, R.A., at the age of seventy-six,
has removed an artistic personality who
—J formed one of the chief links with the
traditions of Victorian academic art. Sir Lawrence
inherited from his Dutch ancestry a great delicacy
and exactness of execution and that appreciation
of the beauty of material surfaces which is so
characteristic of the petits maitres of Holland. He
became an Associate of the Academy in 1876, and
an Academician in 1879. In 1899 he received
knighthood, and the Order of Merit in 1905.
An artist who has cultivated an original vein with
the blacklead pencil is Mr. Sydney Joseph, two of
whose drawings for illustrative purposes we are
giving herewith. _
Not for a long time has there been an exhibition
of more exquisite pencil and chalk drawing than
Mr. S. J. Peploe’s at the Stafford Gallery. The
touch of this artist with the crayon is almost as full
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“on the road
FROM A LEAD-PENCIL DRAWING BY SYDNEY JOSEPH
these fortified towns on the mountains was in
continuous warfare one with the other.
There is no begging, no pestering the artist as at
other places. Most of the painters work out of
doors, painting the nude in the open air under the
vines; it is very seldom that a studio is used,
although they can be got at a reasonable price—say
20 francs a month.
Of course there are no shops, no cafts, the only
meeting-place being a little tobacco-shop kept by
two dark-eyed sisters, once models. The place
is so small, however, that you prefer of an
evening to sit outside and drink your glass of
Protto, watching the endless procession of pic-
turesque figures pass before you; only you must
beware of the pigs that are rushing about by
hundreds ! Every one owns at least six, and they
may knock you over, table and all! I’ve often
seen a tiny child of five on its way home take a
double hitch with its little fist round the family
pig’s tail and be hauled through the Piazza, fol-
lowed by the admiring family, all heavily laden
with implements of the field and gleaned corn.
Yes! Anticoli Corrado for the artist takes a lot
of beating ! F. H.
STUDIO-TALK.
(From Our Own Correspondents.)
LONDON.—The death of Sir Lawrence Alma-
Tadema, R.A., at the age of seventy-six,
has removed an artistic personality who
—J formed one of the chief links with the
traditions of Victorian academic art. Sir Lawrence
inherited from his Dutch ancestry a great delicacy
and exactness of execution and that appreciation
of the beauty of material surfaces which is so
characteristic of the petits maitres of Holland. He
became an Associate of the Academy in 1876, and
an Academician in 1879. In 1899 he received
knighthood, and the Order of Merit in 1905.
An artist who has cultivated an original vein with
the blacklead pencil is Mr. Sydney Joseph, two of
whose drawings for illustrative purposes we are
giving herewith. _
Not for a long time has there been an exhibition
of more exquisite pencil and chalk drawing than
Mr. S. J. Peploe’s at the Stafford Gallery. The
touch of this artist with the crayon is almost as full
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